Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Picture: 'A Nest of Young Thrushes' photograph by Mr A. H. Mattingley, [129].
• Poetry: 'To a Nest of Young Thrushes' Abridged from a poem by Norman Gale, in a 'A Country Muse', 129-130; 'Stanzas from Keat's 'Ode to a Nightingale'' by John Keats (1795-1821), 136-137; 'The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz' by H. W. Longfellow (1807-1882), 143-144.
• Prose: 'Eight Reasons Why Australians Should Know Australian Birds' (illus.), by J. A. Leach M.Sc., author of 'An Australian Bird Book', 130-134; 'The Home of the Lyre Bird' (illus.) by H. Stuart Dove, fellow of the Zoological Society and member of the Royal Australian Ornithologists' Union, 134-136; 'Our Best Birds' (illus.), by E. J. Christian, Dingee, Northern Victoria, 137-139; 'The Reed-Warbler' (illus.) by A. H. E. Mattingley, 140-141; 'As It Was In the Days Of Old' address by Mr A.W. Milligan to pupils of Traralgon State School from 'The Traralgon Record', 141-143.
• Note: 'A Quaint Thought' by Izaak Walton (1593-1683), 144.