INTRODUCTION. ix. 
his own investigations with the observations of his late ‘‘chief” in 
a work entitled ‘‘North’s Nests and Eggs of Birds Breeding in 
Australia.” This interesting part of the information on birds was 
drawn from Mr. North’s book. ‘To make dry scientific facts attrac- 
tive, and to give illustrations of the views of the first settlers and 
the early history of the species, the works of Cook, Collins, Phillip, 
Hunter, Leichhardt, Mitchell, Eyre, Sturt, Oxley, Grey, McKinlay, 
Hume and Hovell were looked through, and what was appropriate 
was adopted. The accounts of the habits of the species were much 
enriched by extracts from the daily newspapers, which supplied 
up-to-date information and facts worthy of a space in any treatise 
on Australian zoology. 
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