THE AUSTRAL AVIAN 

 RECORD. 



Vol. III., No. 6. 



June 25th, 1918. 



CONTENTS. 



Alfred John North, Ornithologist (With Portrait) 



On Pachycephala melanura Gould 



On T urdus maxillaris Latham 



A Forgotten Ornithologist 



The Validity of Some Generic Terms 



Additions .... to my 1913 List 



page 



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. 134 



. 139 



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ALFRED JOHN NORTH, ORNITHOLOGIST 

 AN APPRECIATION. 



By Gregory M. Mathews. 



Plate V. 



Australia lost her foremost, practically her only professional, 

 ornithologist when A. J. North passed away on May 6, 1917. 

 He was born on June 11, 1855, at North Melbourne, Victoria ; 

 and it is a somewhat remarkable item that Victorian orni- 

 thologists somehow antagonised him. Whose was the fault 

 I camiot say, but he rarely alluded to the work of Victorians 

 in words of praise, though himself a Victorian. 



He was the second son of Henry and Mary North, of Moonee 

 Ponds, Victoria, his elder brother being H. Y. North, now 

 of Bendigo. Educated at the Public School and Grammar 

 School, Melbourne, North was apprenticed to the jewellery 

 trade under Henry Young, then in Little Collins Street, 



