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PREFACE 
He also wishes to thank the President and Members of Council of 
the 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 con¬ 
sulted: 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 Tas¬ 
mania, 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 Ornithologists* 
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. 
