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Correspondence. 
t The Km 11 
1st July 
After the egg was lowered, we could see that incubation had 
begun. The egg measured in inches 1.47 x 1.05. 
This egg, I believe, is the first authentic specimen taken in 
Victoria. Both Campbell and North described an egg from Mr. 
Keartland’s collection which measured 1.31 x 1.08. 
Mr. Campbell says, '‘Four to five eggs form a clutch/' while 
North says two eggs. Mr. H. L. White has a pair in his col¬ 
lection, and another set will be awaited with interest. 
During the months of January and February I have often seen 
four or five birds in a party, and only one bird has had the 
crimson crest. These, without doubt, were an adult pair and 
their brood. I believe that, in a good season, the birds might 
lay three eggs, but generally they seem to lay only two, and 
sometimes as in the present instance, only one. 
Correspondence. 
WHITE’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES 
To the Editors, The Bum. 
Sirs,- — Mr. \V. B. Alexander, in the last number of The Emu, 
January, 1924, raises the point as to whom the credit should be 
given for the descriptions of the new species in White's Journal, 
1790. 
I own the unique copy of this work, which was presented to 
the famous Dr. David Pitcairn, the physician of St. Bartholo¬ 
mew’s, who first drew attention to the relationship of rheumatism 
and heart disease. On the back of the title page is written, “This 
copy was presented to me by the Editor, Thos. Wilson, Esq. The 
plates were selected with great care and coloured by the hand 
of Miss Stone.” Signed D. Pitcairn. 
On the inside of the cover also is the signature again and 
the book plate of Elizabeth Pitcairn. The beauty and excellence 
of the hand colouring is a delight, and the signature of Pitcairn 
adds to the value and interest of the volume. 
This proves that Wilson was the editor, as Mr. Alexander sur¬ 
mised. I also think that this is the only copy of the work with - 
coloured plates, the work being issued with plain plates. 1 be¬ 
lieve some were afterwards coloured by unauthorised people to 
enhance their value. The first edition of this work contained 
the cancelled page on which the name Mcrops carunculatus oc¬ 
curs. This also had only plain plates. 
In my Bibliography, now in the press, I have written under 
White, John, “Authorship of the bird names accredited to Shaw 
by Sherbom, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. vii., June, 1891. But 
Swainson had many years before stated this (1834).” 
There are ten new names in the work under review: Fulica 
alba, Motacilla pusilla, Motacilla australis, Caprimulgus cristatus, 
Corvus (jraculinus, Psittacus pusillus, Psittacus discolor, and 
