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The Queensland Naturalist. March, 1935. 
11 The Bird Wonders of Australia,” by A. II. Chis- 
holm, 300pp., and numerous Photographic Plates, pub- 
lished by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Price, 6/-. 
Messrs. Angus and Robertson are to be congratulated 
on the number of books they have recently published 
dealing with Australian wild life. Among the latest is 
the above, by one of our leading ornithologists, best known 
to general readers by his several popular works on Aus- 
tralian bird life. The present book is one that has been 
written “to order’ ’ on behalf of the publishers, and this 
frequently means “commonplaceness”; but here is the 
exception that proves the rule, and in the reviewer’s 
opinion the present is one of the most fascinating books 
the author has written. 
Mr. Chisholm has travelled wide and far in the Com- 
monwealth in pursuit of his studies, and the positions he 
has held on big metroplitan papers in three capital cities 
has brought him in touch with numerous correspondents, 
a combination which has permitted him to give us this 
“purifying breeze from the bush.” Over 100 photo- 
graphic illustrations add to the interest of the book and 
it can be recommended alike to serious students of ornitho- 
logy and that ever-increasing number of the public who 
take a general interest in Australian wild life and its 
preservation. 
C.T.W. 
MORTON, NOT MOR(E)TON BAY. 
Discussing the history of Moreton Bay in an address 
before the Royal Society of Queensland at its September 
meeting, Professor F. W. S. Cumbrae Stewart said it had 
now been shown that beyond doubt that there was nothing 
in the suggestion that the Spanish were the first along this 
coast. Captain Cook was the first. He had named the 
northern extremity Cape Morton (not Moreton), and the 
bay facing the ocean south of it, “Morton” Bay. The 
eminences to the north he called “the Glass Houses,” and 
they should not be called anything else. Between Cape 
“Morton” and the mainland he named the bay, which 
now we call Moreton, Glass House Bay. 
