Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIV., pp. 636-693, “ The Birds of 
Lord Howe and Norfolk Island,” by A. F. Basset Hull, March 12th, 1910. 
The same, Vol. XXXV., pp. 773, 782, additions to above, by Tom 
Iredale, March 1st, 1911. 
The same, pp. 783-787, further additions by Hull, March 1st, 1911. 
Report of the present state and future prospects of Lord Howe 
Island. J. B. Wilson, 1882 (issued in connection with a report of 12 pages, 
“Lord Howe Island,” by J. B. Wilson, 1882 (after May 19th)). 
Memoirs of the Australian Museum, Sydney, No. 2, Lord Howe 
Island, R. Etheridge and others, 1889. (Notes on the Oology of Lord 
Howe Island, pp. 46-48, by A. J. North.) 
This volume connects the “ Birds of Australia ” with the “ Birds of New 
Zealand ”. 
FAREWELL. 
This brings my work on the “ Birds of Australia ” to a close. The original 
work was begun before I was thirty and finished when I was fifty. These 
Supplements were necessary, and it is extremely unlikely that enough material 
will be brought together to make another part or volume for very many years 
to come. 
This, therefore, I leave to a successor, to whom I wish the best of good luck. 
It has been a great pleasure, building up the finest collection of Australian 
bird skins ever put together in one collection. Some day a rival collection 
will be made in Australia, but it will always lack the t} r pes and the specimens 
made historical by being figured and described. 
Future generations will have a smooth path to tread, but they will miss 
the satisfaction of settling knotty problems or running to earth for the first time, 
some important reference. 
They will be able to devote their whole time to working out the life histories. 
It is, of course, of no scientific value to work out the life history of a bird 
and then give it the wrong name ; this is confusion, not science. 
Meadway, 
St. Cross, 
Winchester. 
GREGORY M. MATHEWS. 
March, 1936. 
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