Title The Emu, 2, 1902-1903
Author Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Year 1902
Publisher Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Location Melbourne
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed
Volumes

CONTENTS OF VOL. II—1902–3.


About Members, 46, 122, 230.

Acanthiza, Description of a New, 202.

Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 36.

Albatross, Notes on the, 100.

Among the Birds in Riverina, 35.

Among the Birds in W. Australia, 35.

Arrivals and Dates of Departure of Birds, Scott's Creek, Cobden, Victoria, 214.

Articles and Notes to Appear, 232.

Aust. O.U.—Melbourne Congress, 125; Annual Report for 1901–2, 185; Balance-sheet, 186.

Barnard Parrakeet, 216.

Bellenden-Ker, Field Notes on, 179.

Bendigo District, Notes on Birds of the, 34.

Better Protection for Victorian Birds, 44.

Bicycle Spin with Emus, 31.

"Biter Bit, The," 29.

Birds'-eggs from the Port Darwin District, N. Australia, Descriptions of, 85, 139.

Birds from W. Australia, On a Collection of, 115.

Birds in the Launceston District, 168.

Birds of King Island, The, 203.

Birds of North-Eastern Victoria, 9.

Birds Observed During Trip from Port Augusta, S.A., to Yardea Telegraph Station, Gawler Ranges, in August, 1902, List of, 167.

Bird-Skins from the Fitzroy River, N.W. Australia, Notes on a Collection of, 49

Birds found at Strathbogie, List of, 227.

Black-ringed Finch, 216.

Bower-Bird, Tooth-billed, 223.

Bower-Bird, Satin, 226.

Bulletin of British Ornithologists' Club, 37.

Butcher-Birds v. Dragon-Flies, 28.

Cairns Notes, 174.

Calamanthus from W. Australia, Description of a New, 200.

Central Queensland Notes, 220.

Changing Colour of Plumage without Moulting, On Certain Birds, 196.

Close Seasons for Indigenous Birds, Statement showing the, 190.

Cockatoos as "Resistants," 117.

Colour Reversion in Kingfishers' Eggs, 199.

Coloured Plate, The, 229.

Coloured Figure Fund, 47, 230.

Coomooboolaroo (Q.) Note, 216.

Cuckoos, Fan-tailed and "Rufous-tailed," 112.

Dottrel, The Double-banded, 109.

Drought, A Grimly Humorous Side of the, 99.

Drought, The Dire, 109.

Editorial Note, 184.

Emus, 182.

Emu Eggs, 25.

Emu Park (Central Q.) Notes, 99.

Eopsaltria georgiana and E. gularis, 178.

Exploration of N.W. Kimberley, Report on the, 114.

Finch, The Red-browed, &c., 225.

Finches in Britain, Our, 181.

Flycatcher, A Fighting, 28.

Fly Larvæ in Living Squabs, 217.

Forgotten Feathers (Kites), 122.

Foreign Stray, A, 108.

Forsaken Rookery, A, 28.

From Magazines, 34, 112, 178, 224.

Geelong and Otway Districts, Some Notes from the, 161.

Grass-Birds in Victoria during Winter, 100.

Ground-Larks in Tasmania, 174.

Harrier, Nesting Note on the, 222.

Herbert River (N.Q.) Notes, 29.

Ibis, The, 224.

In the Melbourne Zoo, 99.

Is Malurus cyaneus Polygamous? 179.

Jackasses, Laughing, 159; in the West, 173; at Shooting Matches, 108.

Journal of Agriculture, 34.

King Penguin at the Melbourne Zoo, A Young, 26.

Launceston Note, A, 27.

Leverkühn, Dr. Paul, Papers and Pamphlets, 38.

Male Lyre-Birds Incubating, 173.

Malurus cyaneus and M. superbus, 112.

Malarus cyaneus, 226.

Marsh Terns and Grebes, 33.

Masked Owl, Nest of the, 184.

Megalurus from W. Australia, Description of a New, 201.

Melithreptus from W. Australia, Description of a New, 160.

Micrœca from N. Australia, Description of a New, 85.

Mortlake (Vict.) Notes, 222.

Mutton-Birds, About, 183.

Mutton-Birds, More about, 219.

Mutton-Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) Rookeries, Phillip Island, Report on, 42, 195.


Nankeen Herons, 106.

Native Companions, Notable Migration of, 174.

Native Companions, 217.

New Members, List of, 231.

North Queensland Notes on Some Migratory Birds, 210.

North-West Cape, Exploration of the, 77.

Notes, &c., 48.

Notes and Observations from the Laun- ceston District to 30th June, 1902, 171

Notices, 124.

November Notes, Some, 176.

Nutmeg Pigeons, The, 175.


Obituary Notice, Dr. Snowball, 47.

Outing, An Interesting, 106.

Parrakeet, The Smutty, 181 ; A "Love- less," 216.

Penguins, i.

Pied Cormorants Nesting in Western Port, 32.

Point Cloates (N.W. Australia), Notes from, 104.

Pretoria Museum and Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 1 17.

Protection of Native Birds, The, 187. Quail, A Late Brood of, 28. Queensland Birds, Partly or Wholly Insectivorous, 1 13.


Queensland Camp Notes, 100.


Rabbit-Poisoning, Effects of on Birds, 30.

Radiated Goshawk and Wood Duck, 99.

Rearing Australian Parrots in England, 180.

Red-capped Robin in N. Queensland, 28.

Reviews — "Catalogue of Birds' Eggs," 38, 229 ; "In the Soudan," 41 ; "Nests and Eggs of Birds," 118 ; "Birds of My Parish, The," 120 ; "Strange Adventures in Dicky- BirdLand," 121 ; "Animal Life," 121.

Rockhampton Notes, 173.

"Royal Society of Tasmania, Proceedings of the," 113.

Sexing Birds, 179.

Season 1901-2 (Somerville, Vict.), 102.

Some Familiar Birds, Notes on, 22.

Some Untenable Names in Ornithology, 37.


South Aust. O, Association, 45, 182.

Stray Feathers, 27, 99, 172, 216.

Swallows, Some Southern, 19.

Swifts Roosting, 31.


Tasmanian Birds at Home, 96.

Tasmanian Birds, Arrivals and De- partures of, III.

Terang (Vict.) Notes, 216.


Victorian Naturalist, 35, 179.

Varied Lorikeet, 218.


Western Notes, 30.

Western Australian Notes, 106, 172.

Western Australian Birds, Field Ob- servations on, 68.

Western Port Notes, 219.

White-faced Ternlets, 106.

White-tailed Cockatoo, Nidification of, 28.

Wild Bird Shows, 109.

Wombat, The, 34.

Wood Ducks Breeding in Captivity, 84.

Wood-Swallows in the Murray District During Winter, 108.

Wood-Swallows, 217.

Zoologist, The, 224.


ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. II.

Nest and Eggs of Emu plate i

Young King Penguin ... plate ii

Tongue of King Penguin plate iii

Egg-mound of Mallee Fowl plate iv

Eggs of Chestnut-backed Quail plate v

Young, in down, of Red-capped Dottrel ... plate vi

Black and White Fantail and Nest plate vi

Nest of Rose-breasted Robin, &c. plate vii

Ornithologists' Camp, Phillip Island plate viii

Little Penguin in Nest, with Young plate ix.

Malurus elizabethæ, M. whitei, M. assimilis plate X

Pheasant Feathers plate xi

Kingfishers' Eggs, Reversion of Colour ... plate xi

Nest of Harrier plate xii

Nest of Rufous Bristle-Bird plate xi