164 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. f ^ 



Emu 

 t Dec. 



States, but enthusiasts are needed to start the work and keep it 

 going. The Union offered to supply the Education Depart- 

 ments of the States with material for a Bird Day School Paper. 

 The Queensland Education Department has kindly consented to 

 publish a Bird Day number in January next. This is a splendid 

 beginning. It remains for the bird-lovers in Queensland to have 

 Bird Day instituted and the Gould League formed. The Gould 

 League is self-supporting. The charge of a penny for the certifi- 

 cate covers all expenses. Any surplus can be used to further the 

 work of the League by giving prices, &c. It was so arranged that 

 the certificate could be altered to be used in any State. Mr. J. A. 

 Leach, hon. secretary for Victoria, Mr. C. L. Barrett, hon. secretarj^ 

 B.O.C, or the hon. secretary of the R.A.O.U., will supply fur- 

 ther particulars. 



During the session at Adelaide last year, Mr. J. A. Leach was 

 chosen by the R.A.O.U. to give a lecture to the teachers on bird 

 study, and members offered the South Australian Education Depart- 

 ment the loan of their negatives for a set of slides to be made to 

 illustrate the lecture. The Department ordered two sets. Each set 

 contained 117 slides, and the two sets cost ^jTii 14s. Mr. Leach 

 wrote the lecture which the slides illustrated. These were forwarded 

 to the Education Department of South Australia, and as the Educa- 

 tion Department in that Sate recognizes the value of the use of the 

 lantern, and many of their schools are supplied with them, these sets 

 of slides will be of great use in training and interesting the 

 scholars in bird-life. 



It was intended to make an album of the photographs taken on 

 the Eyre Peninsula trip, to be kept in the R.A.O.U. library as a 

 record of the trip. All members did not for\yard photographs, so the 

 album has not been formed. 



Two members of the R.A.O.U. are to be congratulated on bringing 

 out books during the year — Captain S. A. White, on the Eyre 

 Peninsula trip ; and F. M. Littler, Tas., " Handbook of the Birds 

 of Tasmania." Another well-known member, Mr. G. M. Mathews, 

 kindly consented to represent the Union at the International 

 Congress at Berlin. 



The Emu. — The Lhiion is to be congratulated on the production 

 of The Emu, and the editors, Messrs. A. J. Campbell and C. 

 Barrett, deserve great praise and hearty thanks for their labours, 

 and Messrs. Walker, May and Co. and members of their staff for 

 the interest they take in keeping the production up to such a high 

 standard of excellence. It has increased in size and value. Two 

 coloured plates were published ; want of funds prevents one 

 appearing with each issue. The two plates mentioned were printed 

 by the three-colour process ; but it is considered that they 

 were not so suitable for The Emu as i)revious hand-painted 

 lithographs. Both paintings were the artistic work of Mrs. Ellis 

 Rowan. 



The Union is indebted to Mr. H. L. White, Belltrees, Scone, for 

 his generosity in presenting Mr. Whitlock's notes and 12 illus- 



