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Illustrations in Vol. X., 1910-1911.

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. X.

Rhipidura phasiana . . . {coloured) plate i

Sunday Island: view from the crater rim . plate ii

Half-fledged Young Masked Gannet (Sula cyanops), Meyer Island; Half-fledged Young Phaethon erubescens, Sunday Island . . . . . . . . plate iii

Red-tailed Tropic-Bird (Phai'thon erubescens) on egg in nesting-place, Sunday Island; Nest of Sunday Island Petrel (CEstrelata neglecta), Sunday Island . . plate iv

Œstrelata neglecta on Nest, Meyer Island; Young in down, Œstrelata neglecta, Meyer Island . . plate v

Tufted Honey-eaters {Ptilotis auricomis) feeding upon "manna" exuded by Grey Gum (Eucalypt), Nelson Island, Hawkesbury River . . plate vi

Skuas (Megalestris antarctica) at carcass of seal . . . plate vii

R. Bowdler Sharpe . . plate viii

Certificate of Gould League of Bird-Lovers. Three Species of Leaves most frequently used by the Tooth-billed Bower-Bird in Play-grounds . . plate ix

Eleven other Species of Leaves used by the Tooth-billed Bower-Bird in Play-grounds . . . plate x

Wild Lorikeets {Trichoglossus novæ-hollandiæ) being fed on syrup .. . plate xi

Nest and Eggs (covered and uncovered) of Podicipes novcshollandice . . plate xii

Group of White-capped Noddies' (Micranous leucocapillus) Nests, Capricorn Islands . . . plate xiii

Home of the Jacana (Hydralector gallinaceus) . . . plate xiv

Coral Reef Formation, where numerous birds—Terns, Reef-Herons, Waders, &c.—feed at low tide, off Mast-Head Island . . . plate xv

Scene on Mast-Head Island . . . plate xvi

Pisonia Forest, Mast-Head Island . . . plate xvii

Sea-Eagle's Eyry and Eaglet (Haliactus leucogastcr), Erskine Island . . . plate xviii

Strand on Mast-Head Island, where Brown- winged Terns (Sterna anæstheta) land before entering undergrowth to nest, &c. plate xix

Nest of the Barred-shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis); Black Oyster-catcher's (Hæmatopus unicolor) Nest . . plate xx

White Reef-Heron's (Demiegretta sacra) Nest in Pandanus tree plate xxi Young (white phase) of Reef-Heron [Demiegretta sacra); Brown-winged Tern (Sterna ancestheta) . . . plate xxii

Nest of White-capped Noddy (Micranoiis leucocapillus) . . plate xxiii