President, Vice President, Hon. Secretary, Hon. 
Treasurer, and six members of the Executive Committee. 
With the exception of the President and the Hon, 
Secretary, all are willing to stand for..re-election, 
at present there are five members on the Committee 
willing to stand for re-election and one vacancy to 
be filled. Anyone wishing to nominate a member 
should send in the name to the Secretary. 
Dr. J. Pearson, Director of The Tasmanian Museum 
and Art Gallery has gone on leave to Europe with Mrs. 
Pearson and will be away for six months. We hope 
they will have a very happy time and a safe trip back 
to Tasmania. 
BIRDS AND TERRITORY. 
H. Eliot Howard has written an interesting book 
on "Territory in Bird Life". In this he tells us 
that as a result of patient watching among English 
fields and woods, he arrived at the conclusion that 
practically all birds, when the mating season comes 
round, adopt a territory for themselves. In the case 
of finches and buntings, for instance, it is the male 
that selects the site, and will fight for it against 
all comers both male or female. This annexation 
occurs some time before the arrival of the female, 
and the male spends most of his time in driving off 
intruders and singing. The primary sex instinct is 
to occupy territory, and the primary function of 
their song is to advertise the ownership of territory. 
The size of the occupied area depends upon food supply 
and the ability of the parents to find it. By thus 
occupying certain areas birds unconsciously adjust 
their population to the available supply of food.Lord 
Grey in his book "The Charm of Birds" gives similar 
facts as observed by him in Hampshire. 
