©fftrial QxQmx oi the ^Australasian ©rnithologists' Enion. 
" Birds of a fezither." 
Vol. I.] 
APRIL, 1902. 
[Part 3. 
[Enlarged Number. 
AUSTRALASIAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNlON- 
CO = PATROf<S : 
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. 
office-bearers : 
President: Colonel W. V. LEGGE, R.A., F.Z.S., &c. 
Vice=Presidents: Mr. C. W. DE VIS, M.A. 
Mr. a. H. C. ZIETZ, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. 
Hon. Treasurer: Mr. ROBERT HALL. 
Hon. Secretary: Mr. D. Le SOUEF, C.M.Z.S. 
(Address — Zoological Gardens, Melbourne.) 
^ r^^.x ^ -r. f-^lR- A. J. CAMPBELL. 
Hon. Editors of The JE^mul^^ _ 
(Mr. H. KENDALL. 
Members of Council: Mr. J. W. MELLOR, Mr. A. MATTINGLEY, 
Dr. C. RYAN, and Dr. G. HURST. 
OBJEGTS, &c. - - - 
!HE objects of the Society are the advancement and popularisation 
of the Science of Ornithology, the protection of useful and 
ornamental avifauna, and the publication of a magazine called 
T/ie Emu. 
The business of the Society shall be conducted by a Council, con- 
sisting of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, two 
Editors of The Emu., and four members ; each office-bearer and member 
of the Council shall retire at the end of each financial year, but shall 
be eligible for re-election. 
The Annual Meeting shall be held in the capital of one or other of 
the different States, such capital to be decided at the previous Annual 
Meeting. 
Every member shall be required to pay an annual subscription of 
fifteen shillings, due on the first of July each year. 
The offices of the Society shall be at the office of the Hon. Secretary 
of the Society for the time being, or at such other place as the Council 
may appoint. 
