- Members and friends who attended the session:—Victoria.—Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Nicholis, Mr. and Mrs. C. Cole, Mr. A. J. and Miss Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Mattingley, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Leach, Miss M. Hayman, Mrs. Israel, Mrs. Wickham, Dr. W. J. Long, Messrs. O. Rosenhain, Mowling (2), J. Barr, D. Le Souëf. New South Wales.—Mr. and Mrs. H. Burrell, Dr. A. E. D'Ombrain, Messrs. C. Coles, A. Hamilton, G. J. Broinowski, Basset Hull A. S. Le Souëf, H. Sharpe, J. Dun. Queensland.—Mr. C. Barnard. South Australia.—Messrs. J. W. Mellor and S. S. Stokes. Western Australia.—Mr. A. W. Milligan. Tasmania.—Col. W. V. Legge.
- A quarter of a century ago, Mr. Petherick pointed out the fact that when European navigators first discovered this Australasian Region, they named it the “Bird Country” from the great number of birds observed, the Western Coast being described on the earlier maps as the Psittacorum Regio, or “Land of Parrots,” and the northern part (New Guinea) as the Terra Piccinacoli or “Land of the Bird-of-Paradise.”
- Mr. and Mrs. Nicholls, Mr. and Mrs. Burrell, Mr. and Mrs. Leach, Mrs. Israel, Messrs. Mowling (2), Cole, Barr, Stokes, Rosenhain, Milligan, Mellor, A. S. Le Souëf, Barnard, C. Coles, Drs. Long and D'Ombrain. At Gosford were Mr. and Mrs. Mattingley, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Wickham, and Miss Hayman.
Emu - Austral Ornithology
Volume 11, 1912 - Issue 3