A first list of the birds of Maria Island

Abstract

It has occurred to me that something might be done in the pages of our journal towards increasing our knowledge of the distribution of Tasmanian birds. The large islands round our coasts appear to furnish the most interesting fields of observation, and in the present instance Maria Island has been chosen as being a place to which no little attention has of late been drawn in connection with settlement and fertilisation, and where there may some day be a considerable population. The geographical features of the island are such as to be favourable in a large degree to bird life.