"The preface and introduction to my 'Birds of Australia' having been set up in small type for facility of correction, I have had a limited number of copies printed in an octave form, for distribution among my scientific friends and others ... They must however still regard it more as a proof-sheet than otherwise, inasmuch as it contains many imperfections, most of which have been corrected in the folio edition"--Notice.

"Ex libris Albert May Todd."