The outlook is, however, a hopeful one. Nature-study is bringing our boys and girls into kindlier relationships with our birds; suitable popular names will be forthcoming for them; our poets will sing of them; our nursery rhymes and our children's tales will tell of them; and the time will come when even the birds now trying so hard to sing their way into our hearts, while cursed with the names of "Rufous-breasted Thickhead" and "Striated Field Wren or Stink Bird," will mean to an Australian what "the Throstle with his note so true" and "the Wren with little quill" do to an Englishman. Mr. Leach's valuable little book is a powerful contribution to this much-to-be-desired result. FRANK TATE. NAMES RECENTLY AMENDED By Gregory Mathews. _The following were not included in the text._ The numbers 70, 74, and so on refer to the numbers of the birds. 20 _Rallus pectoralis._ 65-66 _Genus Thalasseus._ 70 _Sterna fuscata._ 74 _Catharacta._ 75 _Catharacta parasitica._ 76 _Morinella interpres._ 80 _Lobibyx novae hollandiae._ 82 _Squatarola squatarola._ 83-89 _Genus Charadrius._ 90 _Hypsibates_ 95 _Numenius minutus._ 96 _Limosa baueri._ 97 _Limosa melanuroides._ 98 _Tringa hypoleuca._ 99 _Tringa nebularia._ 100 _Arenaria leucophaea._ 101 _Erolia ruficollis._ 102 _Erolia aurita._ 103 _Erolia ferruginea._ 104 _Canutus canutus._ 105 _Canutus magnus._ 110 _Choriotis australis._ 111 _Mathewsia rubicunda._ 114 _Egatheus falcinellus._ 117 _Egretta plumifera._ 118 _Egretta timoriensis._ 121 _Egretta nigripes._ 122 _Demigretta sacra._ 124 _Ixobrychus pusillus._ 126 _Chenopis atrata._ 132 _Tadorna tadornoides._ 134 _Nettion castaneum._ 139 _Nyroca australis._ 140 _Oxyura australis._ 142-146 _Genus, Carbo._ 157 _Astur cirrhocephalus._ 171 _Ieracidea berigora._ 172 _Ieracidea orientalis._ 179-183 _Genus, Tyto._ 185-187 _Genus, Glossopsitta._ 191 _Genus, Callocephalon._ 192-194 _Genus, Cacatöes._ 195 _Licmetis tenuirostris._ 196 _Calopsitta novae-hollandiae._ 198 _Polytelis anthopeplus._ 208 _Neophema chrysostoma._ 213 _Lathamus discolor._ 225 _Eurostopodus albigularis._ 228 _Apus pacificus._ 229 _Cuculus pallidus._ 232 _Misocalius palliolatus._ PREFACE. This little volume is intended as a pocket book for field use, so that the many teachers, nature-students, nature-lovers, schoolboys, schoolgirls, and boy scouts, who like to "_see_ what they _look at_," may be able to name the birds they meet. The first step towards knowing the birds is a _desire_ to know them; this will grow if a person is interested; so our first business, as in all nature-study work, is to arouse _interest_. Interest follows at once, as we have often found, if a person realizes that what is about him or her is worthy of study. To arouse this necessary interest, a lecture on Australian birds is given in such a form that it may be repeated, if desired.