PREFACE. 
I N bringing out this book, I wish it clearly to be understood 
that it is not a Supplement to my Birds of Australia, although 
workers will find it a useful addition to that work. 
I have divided the volume into two parts. In part I. are the 
birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands ; in part II. the birds of 
the South Polar region which lies below Australia, with the addition 
of those Australian birds that have come to hand lately. I should 
like to advocate the inclusion of all these birds in any future 
“ List ” of the birds of Australia. The birds of Lord Howe and 
Norfolk Islands belong nowhere else, and to include those of the 
South Pole would only mean the addition of some half a dozen 
species. I originally held this view and actually included those 
birds in my first “ List ” which appeared as a Supplement to the 
“ Emu ” for January 1908. 
If we include the birds of the two islands, we get three new 
families and eleven new genera, that is, two each of Pigeons and 
Parrots and one each of the Rail, Cuckoo, Fly-eater, Caterpillar- 
catcher, Thrush, Silver-eye and Starling. 
If we also include the South Polar region, we do not get any new 
families, but only one new genus and two new species of Penguin 
viz., Aptenodytes forsteri and Dasyramphus adelice; two other 
genera and four species, Thalassoica antarctica, Pagodroma confusa, 
Diomedea epomophora, Catharacta maccormicki. 
This makes a total of just over a couple of dozen new species 
to our List. 
The following corrections must be made on page 8 :— 
Line five (end) of description, for “ past ” read “ pair ” ; six 
fines further down for “ 181-6 ” read “ 166.” 
P. 47, last fine, read “ September to December.” 
Meadway, 
St. Cross, 
Winchester. 
GREGORY M. MATHEWS. 
July 20th, 1928. 
