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PREFACE 
Gould League of Bird Lovers of New South Wales for kindly sponsoring 
the work; the Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, the National 
Museum, Melbourne, the Adelaide Museum, and the Brisbane Museum, for 
the loan of specimens in their collections ; and the members of their respective 
staffs for personal help willingly rendered. 
In preparing this work the following publications have been consulted; 
Gould (John), The Birds of Australia , 7 vols., 1840-1848, and Supplement , 
1869; Gould (John), Handbook to the Birds of Australia , 2 vols., 1865; 
Hall (Robert), A Key to the Birds of Australia and Tasmania , 1899; 
Campbell (A. J.), Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds , 1901 ; North (A. J.), 
Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania , 4 vols., 
1901-1914; Mathews (Gregory M.), The Birds of Australia , 12 vols., 
1910-1927; Mathews and Iredale, A Manual of the Birds of Australia, 
vol. i, 1921 ; Leach (J. A.), An Australian Bird Book, seventh edition, 1929; 
Alexander (W. B.), Birds of the Ocean, 1928; The Official Checklist of the 
Birds of Australia, second edition, 1926 (issued by the Royal Australian 
Ornithologists’ Union) ; and the Emu (Official Journal of the Royal Orni- 
thologists’ Union). 
Bacon & Co. Ltd have made the engravings, and Halstead Press Pty Ltd 
have printed them with their accustomed skill and care. 
N. W. C. 
