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The Emu. 
to the great regret of his many private friends and ornithological 
brethren. This regret was amply testified to by the representa- 
tive gathering at the Boroondara Cemetery on the bright spring 
day when his remains were laid to rest in sight of the beautiful 
blue ranges to the east, where he so often and dearly loved to 
roam in life. 
Among the many floral tributes sent was one from the Field 
Naturalists' Club of Victoria, and another — an exquisite wreath of 
wild flowers, singularly appropriate — from the Government 
Entomologist and Mrs. French. 
Correspondence, &c» 
The following is an extract from a letter received from Pro- 
fessor Alfred Newton Magdalene College, Cambridge, by Mr. D. 
Le Souef : — " I have to thank you for No. i of The Eimi, on 
the publication of which I most heartily congratulate you and 
all concerned. Any number of times during the last twenty, 
if not thirty, years I have been inciting such correspondents as 
I have had the good fortune to possess in Australia to take an 
active part in working out the ornithology of their own country, 
and now there seems to be every chance of this being done. You 
may be sure that I shall watch the movement with the keenest 
interest, and that my very best wishes attend the development 
of the newly-hatched nestling." 
Mr. Frank Fay (Melbourne) sends clippings from English files 
on the " Migration of Quails." 
Mr. Henry Holroyd (Tarlee, S.A.) : Received a note on the 
incubation of the Emu. 
Articles — " English Birds in Tasmania," by F. M. Littler 
(Launceston) ; and " Notes on Various Birds Found in Tas- 
mania," by Col. Legge (Hobart), will appear in the next issue. 
Note. — Rockhampton, 29th November. — "To-day a small 
flock of that rare visitor, the Spine-tailed Swift, was seen high 
up above the Fitzroy River at Lake's Creek, hawking insects. 
In company with them were a few Dollar Birds Two Swifts 
were seen on the following days." — WiLL. MTlwraith. 
