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as far inland as Kalgoorlie, has become very rare in the 
central districts. It is very shy, frequenting dense under¬ 
growth, and is not easy to flush. If put up it rises suddenly 
and flies rather rapidly for a short distance, dropping into 
thick scrub at the first opportunity.— G. C. &] 
DrOMASUS NOViE-HOLLANDER Lath. 
Dromceus nova-hollandicn Math. p. 5. 
a-c. S ? et juv. Parker’s Range, llth-18th Aug. 
d, e. Ad. Kurrawang, 27th Sept. 
/, g. Ad. Laverton, 17th Oct. 
]ris clear hazel or buff yellow ; bare skin on the head, neck 
and thighs bluish-white ; bill olivaceous-black ; legs dusky 
olivaceous-black. 
[The Emu is widely distributed throughout the south¬ 
western, central and western divisions, being particularly 
numerous in the interior. It frequents open flats and 
scrubby plains and is rare in the forest-districts. The 
spotted form, D. irroratus Bartl., I believe to be founded on 
immature birds.—G. C. $.] 
Yl. — Obituary :— Thomas Southwell, Prof. Giglioli, 
and Dr. Bowdier Sharpe. 
A veritable link with the past generation of Norfolk natu¬ 
ralists was the late Thomas Southwell of Norwich, who died 
on the 5th of September, 1909, in the seventy-ninth year 
of his age. In the first volume of the Trans. Norf. & Norw. 
Nat. Soc, he wrote, I have myself talked with men who have 
taken the eggs of the Avocet and Black-tailed Godwit, and 
who have seen the Bustard at large in its last stronghold. 
The Bittern was so common in Feltwell Pen that a keeper 
there has shot five in one day, and his father used to have 
one roasted for dinner every Sunday.” Again, “ I have 
found the eggs of Montagu’s Harrier, and know those who 
remember the time when the Hen Harrier and Short-eared 
Qwl bred regularly in Roydon Fen, and who have taken the 
