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INTRODUCTION. 
common in our gardens as in England. And wherever they go 
they carry so much that is fine in literature with them. But 
there has not yet been time for our native birds to endear them- 
selves to us. And so we hear only their song. Wise Shake- 
speare says — 
"How many things by season seasoned are 
To their right praise and true perfection." 
*♦*♦*♦* 
"The Nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, wouJd be thought 
No better a musician than the Wren." 
He knows that to the song of the bird must be its appropriate 
setting, and that when Nature has done her part there is still 
much to be supplied by ourselves. 
The outlook is, however, a hopeful one. Nature-study is 
bringing our boys and girls into kindlier relationships 
with our birds; suitable popular names will be forth- 
coming for them; our poets will sing of them; our nursery 
rhymes and our children's tales will tell of them; and the time 
will come when even the birds now trying so hard to sing their 
way into our hearts, while cursed with the names of "Rufous- 
breasted Thickhead" and "Striated Field Wren or Stink Bird," 
will mean to an Australian what "the Throstle with his note so 
true" and "the Wren with little quill" do to an Englishman. 
Mr. Leach's valuable little book is a powerful contribution 
to this much-to-be-desired result. 
FRANK TATE. 
NAMES RECENTLY AMENDED 
By Gregory Mathews. 
The following were not included in the text. 
The numbers 70, 74, and so on refer to the numbers of the birds. 
20 Rallus Pectoralis. 
65-66 Genus Thalassetis. 
70 Sterna fuscata, 
74 Catharacta 
75 C. parasitica. 
76 Morinella interpres. 
80 Lobibyx novae 
hollandiae, 
82 Squatarola 
squatarola. 
83-89 Genus Charadrius 
90 Hypsihates 
95 Numenius minutiis. 
96 Limosa haueri. 
97 L. melanuroides . 
98 Tringa hypoleuca. 
99 T. nehularia. 
100 Arenaria 
leucophaea. 
101 Erolia ruficollis. 
102 E. aurita. 
1 03 E. ferruginea. 
104 Canutus canutus. 
105 C.magnus. 
110 Choriotis australis. 
1 1 1 Mathewsia 
ruhictmda. 
114 Egatheus 
falcinellus. 
1 1 7 Egretta plumifera. 
118 E. timoriensis. 
121 E. nigripes. . 
1 22 Demigretta sacra. 
1 24 I xohrychiis pusillus 
126 Chenopis atrata. 
1 32 Tadorna 
tadornoides. 
1 34 Nettion castaneum. 
139 Nyroca australis. 
140 Oxyura australis. 
142-146 Genus, Carho. 
1 57 Astur 
cirrhocephalus . 
171 leracidea berigora. 
172 /. orientalis. 
179-183 Genus, Tyto 
185-187 „Glossop^itta. 
191 ,,Callocephalon 
192-194 „Cacat6es. 
195 Licmetis 
tenuirostris. 
1 96 Calopsitta novae- 
hollandiae. 
198 Polytelis 
anthopeplus. 
208 Neophema 
chrysostoma. 
213 Lathamus discolor 
225 Eurostopodus 
albigularis. 
228 Apus pacific us. 
229 Cuculus pallidus. 
232 Misocalius 
palliolatus. 
