PREFACE. 
rpITIS Supplement and my Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, etc., 
are really a Supplement to my Birds of Australia. I thought it better 
not to call them such ; nevertheless, no copy of the Birds of Australia can be 
called complete without these volumes, containing as they do so many coloured 
figures of purely Australian Birds. 
The numbering of the plates in this volume runs on from the former work, 
but the pagination starts again. 
This brings my work on Australian Birds to a close. It may be necessary 
in the future to bring out a further volume, but that time is of necessity a long 
way off. 
I have had these few New Zealand birds figured, so that with my Birds 
of Australia, these books and Buller’s works, one can consult a coloured figure 
of every bird on the Australia and New Zealand Lists. 
In a review of The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, etc., in the 
“Ibis” for January, 1929, pp. 167-168, the Reviewer regrets that I did not 
say more about the history of these two islands. 
I now give a brief account of then' discovery and settlement. 
NORFOLK ISLAND. 
Early in October, 1774, about Saturday the 8th, Captain James Cook’s 
sloop “ Resolution ” was on its way to New Zealand, when land was seen which 
proved to be a “ small island of moderate elevation, wholly covered with 
cypress-trees.” About 9 o’clock a.m. the sloop was abreast of it. 
Two boats were sent ashore, with Cook. “ We were fortunate enough to 
find a little cove so well sheltered by some rocks, that our boats lay very safe 
in it, and were able to land without wetting a foot. We found a little rill which 
descended in a cleft between two hills ; and following the course of it, we 
penetrated the woods with great difficulty, through a thick tissue of bindweeds 
and chmbers. However, as soon as we had passed through this outward fence, 
we found the forest tolerably clear of underwood, and had not the least difficu y 
to walk forwards.” The party stayed there all day, and “ put off from it late m 
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