Vol. X. 

 1911 



] Reviews. 3OI 



of the highest rank there have been few whose opinion is more 

 worthy of attention than MacGilHvray, a trained anatomist and 

 a man of thoroughly independent mind." 



The record of MacGilhvray's \\{q and work, as set out in the 

 volume under notice, should be read by all ornithologists ; it is 

 inspiring. 



It is interesting that two sons of the great British " bird-man," 

 John and Paul, also became eminent in natural science, and 

 spent portions of their lives in Australia. John MacGillivray 

 was naturalist on three scientific expeditions, including that 

 of the Fly to Torres Strait and the Eastern Archipelago 

 (1842-46), and he died at Sydney in 1867. Paul settled in 

 Australia. He was a surgeon, and a student of natural science. 

 A monument to his memory has been erected at Bendigo, where 

 he resided, and his collection of natural specimens is preserved 

 in the National Museum, Melbourne. 



Correspondence. 



THE CARTER ALBATROSS. 

 To the Editors of " TJie Eviu!' 

 Sirs, — The editorial statement appearing in the last number of 

 TJie Emit (October, 19 10, vol. x., p. 144) is incorrect in stating 

 that the specimen of Thalassogeron carteri, described as new by 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild [vide Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xiv., p. 

 6) " was found washed ashore dead off North-West Aus- 

 tralia." It was caught by a black boy in my employment while 

 it was swimming in the open sea at Point Cloates, and brought 

 to me by him while still alive (vide Emu, vol. iii., p. 208). I 

 think the editors, who, as far as I know, have never seen the 

 bird, have gone out of their way to question the validity of this 

 species, seeing that the Hon. Walter Rothschild described it as 

 new (Dr. Ernst Hartert concurring with him), and that the late 

 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe assured me (after examination of the 

 skin) that it was a good species, when I was in England in 1903. 

 So far, the only Albatross procured that resembles T. carteri 

 was procured at Gough Island, in the South Atlantic, by the 

 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1904, and was 

 described by my friend Mr. Wm Eagle Clarke in The Ibis, 1905, 

 p. 266, where he states : — " Dr. Hartert remarks that he finds 

 nothing to show that other Albatrosses have the bill black in 

 the young." 



In my paper in The Emu mentioned above, the word "thing " 

 has been substituted for "skin " by a printer's error in the fourth 

 line, p. 209. — I am, &c., 



TOM CARTER. 



Broome Hill, Western Australia, 27/10/10. 



[No persons are more " in love " with Australian birds or 



