Identifier: emu18aust (find matches)
Title: The Emu
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Australasian Ornithologists' Union Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Australasia Periodicals
Publisher: Melbourne : Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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to be friendly, would not let his better nature go. The lushvegetation gives a good artistic touch to the animal houses andcages. There l)eing no immediate prospect of a boat out from this port,I l)Ooked by rail for Colombo via Madras. The aquarium of Madrasis composed principally of eight tanks, containing fishes of themost beautiful colours. They are more charming than those ofNaples, though special studies are not displayed as in Naples.Continuing by train the same day, I passed through fascinatingcountry, with its great areas of cotton crops, cocoanut palms,and tamarisk. Obviously, this latter tree is cultivated by theForest Department for use as firewood on a highly cultivatedextent of country. Two days later I was passing into northern Ceylon, and on thefourtli following 1 was aboard a boat steaming out of Coloml)ofor Australia. Passing the Cocos Islands I saw l)oth White-tailedand Red-tailed Tropic-Birds (PJiarlluni) Happing about tlie steamer. The Emu, Vol. XVIII. PLATE XVlll.
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^igiV) Hall, The Jungle and the Snows. II7 making tlie call of a Cockatoo lost at sea. South of the line theBlack-billed Albatross (Diomedea carteri) was among the tube-nosed birds, our followers. But it was a single example onlyamong the thirty of Wandering and Black-browed species. Inthe Indian Ocean I saw the three Skua Gulls that reach Australianshores. In February I saw, off the Laccadive Islands, what Itook to be Siercorarius crepidatiis, the Arctic Skua. It was theuniform brown variety, appearing too small for 5. pomatorhinus.In either case it was wintering, as the former is fairly common inTasmania, and the latter in Northern Australia. The Tasmanianform appears in either of two entirely different phases. It nestsin the Lena River country, though I was not fortunate enough tosee its eggs and nest. A cold, strong wind from the south had encouraged many ofthe Great Skuas (Megalestris antarctica) to go north into theIndian Ocean. From that time on several travelled with us farint

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