Excerpt from The Emu, Vol. 16: A Quarterly Magazine to Popularize the Study and Protection of Native Birds and to Record Results of Scientific Research in Ornithology; July, 1916
For some time past I had been anxious to procure specimens Of a Skua, which had been Often seen by ornithologists passing up and down the Gulf, but owing to passenger steamers not being able to stop on the voyage, specimens had never been handled it had been thought desirable for some time that The Pages, two large rocks at the entrance Of Backstairs Passage, Should b investigated, there being no record Of any ornithologist having landed on them; a Strange White-breasted Petrel had been seen by Dr. A. M. Morgan and the writer, but never identified: and, lastly, we had been anxious to carry out research work among the Cormorants Of our seaboard.
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