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Title The Emu, 5, 1905-1906
Author Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Year 1905
Publisher Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Location Melbourne
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed
Volumes

CONTENTS OF VOL. W— 1905-0.
About Members, 50.
Aims of Ornithology, The, 92.
Albino Forms for National Museum, 51.
Attacked by Eagles, 166.
Australian Birds in England, 41.
Australian Quails Breeding in England,
173- . ,
Australasian Ornithologists Union, 54,
lOi, 104, 105; Annual Report.
106; President's Address, iio;
Financial Statement, 112 ; Campout on Kangaroo Island, 129.
Australian Magpies to Ceylon, Introduction of. 231.
Autumn Notes, 38.
Autumn Ramble, An, 52.
Big Gun Firing and Bird Destruction. 1S4.
Bird Kindness, 42.
Bird- [.ore, 44, 170.
Bird Notes from Olinda Vale, 45.
Bird Observations, Some, 189.
Bird Observers' Club, 51, 103, 182.
Bird Protection, 182; in U.S.A., 166;
in America, 217-
Bird Sanctuary, A Queensland, 204.
Birds and their Names and Dwelling-
places, 163.
Birds New for Australia, 155.
Birds Observed and Skins Examined in 1905, 161.
Birds of Italy, 51.
Birds of the Richmond District, N.Q.,
Notes on the, 15, 72.
Birds of N.W. Australia, 167.
Birds Striking the Light, 52.
Birds Teaching Young to Sing, 41.
Black-headed Honey-eater, The, 12.
Blue Wren (Malurus), The Moult of the, 152.
Blue Wrens, Early Moult of, 30.
Bronze-wing, Notes on, 83.
Cairns (N.Q.) Notes, 2io.
Clarke Island (Bass Straits) Notes, 34, 208.
Coachwhip-Bird, The, 192.
Coloured Figure Fund, 183.
Correspondence, 48, 223.
Cuckoo Notes, 20.
'Cuckoo, Why Does the Young Eject its Foster-Brethren ? 30.
Cuckoo, Young, Fed by Two Pairs of Honey-eaters, 209.
Cuckoos, 93, 170.
Cuckoos and Migration in Birds, Principles Governing, 145.
Cuckoos, Field Notes on, 35.
Cuculus inter tnedius, 232.
Dichotomous Key to Birds of Australia, 104, 183. Also Supplement.
Domestic Wild-Cats v. Native Birds, 201.
Egg-blower, New, 88.
Ewing Tit, Eggs of the, 83.
Falcons, 204.
Fantail Cuckoo, Re, 86.
Far Southern Seas, 90.
Finch, The Yellow-rumped, 166.
Finches, Gouldian, 215.
Finches, Red-headed and Black-headed Gouldian, 215.
F'orgotten Feathers, 163, 211.
Four Curious Nesting-places, 157.
Foxes, 230.
From Magazines, 41, 89. 166, 215.
Fruit-eating Birds, 68, 91, 218.
Fruit-Pigeon, New, 155, 195.
Gannet. The, 159.
Genera Avium, 215.
Generic Name-changes, 173.
Godwit, The Barred-rumped, 167.
Gough Island, 168.
Grass- Finch, A New, 169.
Grass-Owls, 104.
Grass-Parrakeet, The Bourke, 167.
Great Auk, The, 89.
Gulls Nesting Inland, 203.
Gymnorhiiia leuconota. Notes on, 205.
Hard Pressed, 41.
High Prices, 230.
Honey-eater, Nests and Eggs of Varied, 44.
Honey-eater, The White-plumed, as a
Bee-killer, 83.
Hutton Memorial Research Fund, 233.
Ibis Rookery, Visit to a, 185.
Incubation, The Period of, 45.
Inquiry Column, 55.
Insectivorous Birds, 7.
Island Outing, An, 168.
Italy, Australian Birds in, 46.
Kagu Chick, A, 32.
Kangaroo Island, Birds of, 207, 224.
Kangaroo Island, Report on the Birds
of : a Comparison with Mainland
Forms, 139.
King Parrot, 215.
Kiwis, 169.
Kurrajong (<^.) Notes, 36, 84.
Laughing Jackasses, 190.
Limicoline Birds, Notes on Some, 23.
Linnean Society of New South Wales, 232.
Longreach (Q.) Notes, 158.
Lyre-Birds, Domestic, 32.
Mechanical Advantages of the Shape of Swans for Feeding, 206.
Melithreptus albigularis, 232.
Migration, The Principles of, 225.
Mistletoes, Do Other Birds Besides the Dicæum Distribute ? 223.
Musk-Ducks, Frolicsome, 204.
Musk Lorikeet, 216.

Members of Australasian O.U., 235.

National Bird Protection, 217.

Native Names of Birds, 48.

Native Bird Protection Association, 183.

Nature Calendar, A, 42.

Nesting of Australian Finches in England, 218.

New South Wales Bird Laws, 177.

New Zealand Birds, 218.

Ninox v. Podargus, 29.

Nomenclature, 27 ; Priority in, 173.

Notes and Notices, 51, 104, 183, 230.

Obituary Notice (Captain Ihitton), 178; Mr. Price Fletcher, 226.

Oological Notes and Further Descrip- tion of New Fruit-Pigeon, 195.

Oreoscopus ( Sericorms ) ^ttluralis, 47.

Ornithologists, Celebrated, 41.

Ornithology and Civilization, 175.

Over the Blacks' Spur, 215.

Owls' Eggs, Irregular Incubation of, 171.

Parrakeet Hybrid, A, 215.

Parrakeet, The Alexandra, 89.

Parrot, A Remarkable, 51.

Painted Finch in Northern Queensland. The, 82.

Penguins, Save the, 90.

Petrel, The Origin of the Name, 206.

Phaps chalpoptera and Ocyphaps lophotes. Additional Notes on the Nesting of, 159-

Philippine Islands, Birds of, 219.

Pied Mutton-Birds, 30.

Poowong (Q.) Notes, 31.

Probable New Bird for Australia, 203.

Psalm of Dawn, A, 199.

Ptilotis penicillata and an Enemy, 190.

Ptilotis plumula, 232.

Publications Received, 56, 184, 234.

Rabbit Pest in Australia, 51.

Regent-Bird, The, 220.

Regurgitutive Feeding, 42.

Reviews — "The Three Naumanns," 49 ; " Col. Legge's Address," 94 ; " American Birds," 99 ; " Catalogue of Birds' Eggs," 223.

Robins, Movements of, 216.

Robins, Yellow, as Snake-finders, 217.

Rockhanipton Notes, 31, 85.

Satin Bower-Bird's Bower, Singular Site for a, 43.

Sea-Gulls as Insect Destroyers, 83.

Scrub-Tit {Acanthornis magna). The. 156.

School in Wild Life, The, 37.

Siberia, 168.

Skua, Richardson, 89.

South Australian Ornithologists' As- sociation, 26, 102, 181.

South African Ornithologists' Union, Journal of 26, 171, 216.

Southern Stone-Plover, 191.

Sparrows at Sea, 189.

Species and Sub-species, 172.

Stray Feathers, 29, 82, 157, 203.

Strepera Falls, 231.

Sub-genera, 216.

Sub-species, 42.

Tasmanian Hawk Notes, 84.

Tasmanian Strays, 32.

Trip to the West, A, 78.

Tuggerah Lakes, N.S.W., A Visit to the, I.

Victoria Lyre-Bird (Menura victoria). Notes on the, 57.

Visit to a Ibis Rookery, 185.

Warbling Grass-Parrakeets, 204.

Where Swallows Build, 205.

Wood Sandpiper, The, 155.

Wood- Swallows, 189.

Zosterops Nesting in Captivity, 215.



ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. V.

Young Narrow-billed Bronze-Cuckoo Ousting Young Blue Wren plate i

Young Fan-tailed Cuckoo in Nest of Brown Tit plate ii

Yung lironze-Cuckoo being fed by Brown Tit plate iii

Kagu {RJiinochctiis jiihatiis) Chick . . plate iv

Home of the Lyre-Bird : On the Far Upper Yarra plate V

Nests of Lyre- Birds in Trees plate vi

Lyre-Bird (female) plate vii

Egg of Lyre-Bird (natural size) plate viii

Young (in down) of Lyre-Bird plate viii

Nest (on ground) of Lyre-Bird plate ix

Lyre-Bird (male) . . plate X

The late Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. plate xi

Nest of Grey Thrush built in a Demijohn Wicker plate xii

Young of Black-winged Crow-Shrike plate xii

Black-winged Crow-Shrikes plate xiii

Colony of Young Ibises plate xiv

Coachwhip-Bird and Young plate XV

Nest of Coachwhip-Bird plate xvi