EDITORIAL NOTE, 
In completing with this issue the first volume of TJie Emu the 
editors most heartily congratulate members on the success 
which has been attained. Much was expected, much has been 
achieved. From the small gathering at which the Union was 
projected it has grown to proportions that will make its influence 
felt more and more, and numbers sufficient good workers in 
its ranks to render efficient service both to the science of 
ornithology and to the cause of bird protection. How much 
remains to be done in those directions every student and bird- 
lover knows. Nearly lOO known species have their nests and 
eggs still undescribed, and of a large proportion of our birds 
some phases at least of their life-history are unknown. 
To those members who have rendered aid by writing and 
forwarding papers the warmest of thanks are tendered, as also 
to those who have given advice. From both a continuance in 
the good work is solicited, as are contributions from other of 
our fellow-members. Every item chronicled in The Emu is 
helpful in the cause we all have at heart, and the larger the 
number of observers who prove that they are at work by 
recording what they see, and publishing their notes, the more 
efficient will the official journal of the Australasian Ornith- 
ologists' Union be. Up to the present the task of the editors 
has been a pleasurable one ; it remains with members to 
make it continue so. 
