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Scribe Publications

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Scribe Publications

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A. H. (ALEXANDER HUGH) CHISHOLM was born in Maryborough, Victoria in 1890, and worked on the Maryborough Advertiser before moving to Brisbane to work on the Daily Mail, and subsequently to Melbourne to edit the Argus. Chisholm worked with C. J. Dennis and published his major work, The Making of a Sentimental Bloke, in 1946. Chisholm died in 1977.

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A. H. (ALEXANDER HUGH) CHISHOLM was born in Maryborough, Victoria in 1890, and worked on the Maryborough Advertiser before moving to Brisbane to work on the Daily Mail, and subsequently to Melbourne to edit the Argus. Chisholm worked with C. J. Dennis and published his major work, The Making of a Sentimental Bloke, in 1946. Chisholm died in 1977.

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TO THE MOTHER AT HOME

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TO THE MOTHER AT HOME

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FOREWORD

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I KNEW ALEC Chisholm’s name before I knew the name of any other birdwatcher ‐ indeed before I knew the names of many birds. When I was eleven, my parents bought me my first ‘real’ bird book, the 1976 edition of the Reader’s Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. In it was a foreword by Alec Chisholm. He was mentioned again in the account of the Paradise Parrot as the last experienced birder to have seen this most beautiful bird before it became extinct (a fact that the dogmatic Chisholm refused to acknowledge right up until his death more than fifty years after his 1922 sighting). That alone fired my budding birdwatcher’s brain with awe.

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I KNEW ALEC Chisholm’s name before I knew the name of any other birdwatcher ‐ indeed before I knew the names of many birds. When I was eleven, my parents bought me my first ‘real’ bird book, the 1976 edition of the Reader’s Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. In it was a foreword by Alec Chisholm. He was mentioned again in the account of the Paradise Parrot as the last experienced birder to have seen this most beautiful bird before it became extinct (a fact that the dogmatic Chisholm refused to acknowledge right up until his death more than fifty years after his 1922 sighting). That alone fired my budding birdwatcher’s brain with awe.

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It is only in recent years, however, as I have delved into the history of ornithology in Australia as the author of my own books on birdwatching, and as the editor of Australian Birdlife, that I have come to appreciate just what a colossal figure the man referred to as “Chis” was ‐ right up there with John Gould or Neville Cayley in terms of importance to Australian bird study and for providing a voice for Australian birds.

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IT IS MANY years since i first heard of the fame of Mr. A. H. Chisholm, who has honored me with a request to write a preface for his book on birds. I say “honored” because he might easily have found a man capable of writing a worthier preface than mine to such a worthy book. I value the compliment the more, because it was mainly through the writings of Mr. Chisholm that I began to take an interest in Australian birds, discovering a new pleasure, and one that will always endure.

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Out of your proof you speak; we, poor unfledged,

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Part I

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A pageant of Spring

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THE GIFTS OF AUGUST

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I LIKE TO THINK that O. Henry was not altogether facetious in laying it down that the true harbinger of Spring is the heart. “It’s just a kind of feeling,” he confides. . . . “It belongs to the world.” At any rate, one may nod sagely to these observations without necessarily subscribing to a further suggestion, that the three kinds of people who feel the approach of Spring first are poets, lovers, and poor widows ‐ which is another question, one quite beyond me.

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I LIKE TO THINK that O. Henry was not altogether facetious in laying it down that the true harbinger of Spring is the heart. “It’s just a kind of feeling,” he confides. . . . “It belongs to the world.” At any rate, one may nod sagely to these observations without necessarily subscribing to a further suggestion, that the three kinds of people who feel the approach of Spring first are poets, lovers, and poor widows ‐ which is another question, one quite beyond me.

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’Twas Jack o’ Winter hailed it first,

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But now more timid angels sing:

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Afar the fluting of the Spring?

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Such slim child-breasts and pulsing, slender throat!

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* Watling, one of the earliest painters of Australian material, holds a place of considerable negative importance in the ornithology of the country, since it has been discovered that it was (probably) from his paintings that Dr. John Latham, the celebrated British ornithologist, obtained the material for describing many “New Holland” birds then new to science. In a publication of the British Museum, dealing comprehensively with the history of the collections, it is pointed out by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe that “in 1902 the Museum acquired from Mr. James Lee, a grandson of the famous horticulturist, of

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There were myriad lights on the great white road,

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“I WISH IT were always spring!” a trite sentiment, this, but notable in the present instance because it comes from a British bird-lover, a man of attainments in literature and the lore of Nature. the expression surprises by reason of its author, and I wonder idly if he really means, or meant, what he wrote. for surely a little reflection will show the sentiment to be as weak as it is superficial.

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The Brown Tree-Creeper, the “Wood-pecker” of roving boys, and Climacterus scandens of the ornithologist, is an old friend. One of the outstanding recollections of boyish days in Birdland is that of peering into a stump, hollow with age, for a glimpse of three beautiful, pink-spotted eggs. (The Tree-Creepers are among the few birds to break the law under which birds which nest in hollows lay white eggs.) Essentially faithful to a favorable locality, the Brown Tree-Creeper will return year after year to any situation that has served well, be it hollow limb, fence-post, stump, or any old receptacle of moderate convenience. I have known “Wood-peckers” to cling steadfastly to a favored orchard, impartiality being shown only in the choice of a situation; now it was the cleft of a battered kerosene tin balanced precariously on a fence-post, then a sordid-looking jam-tin suspended against a shed wall, and again an old kettle.*

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Dear, it’s a pity that poor Jenny is so plain!

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A place where all the year is May,

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Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,

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Carrying on the reflection, it seems to me that so many common Australian birds are not fightable in spite of their conspicuous coloring, but because of that very fact. They have none of the protective coloration which plays so large a part in the scheme and balance of Nature; therefore they must needs be endowed with some other special ability to protect themselves and their offspring. Further, as that same conspicuous coloration would render negative any general attempt on the part of such birds to obscure themselves, Nature has decreed that they shall face the world boldly ‐ protected by their very prominence.*

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One for anger,

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(In accord with the 1922 Check List of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union.)

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Pomatorhinus temporalis

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Wood-swallow, white-browed (“skimmer”)

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