Protection of the Cape Barren goose

There is another bird for the protection of which I would suggest steps be taken by this Society. It is the Cape Barren Goose {Cereopsis Novae Hollandiae), a bird of very limited distribution, which is only found to inhabit the Bass Straits Islands, and according to Gould, the adjacent shores of Victoria. I make the suggestion purely in the interests of science, and I am therefore aware that it will be all the more difficult to carry out the matter. This goose is one of the very interesting monotypic generic forms which exist among the Anatidce in Australia, the others being the Semipalmated goose, Anseranas melanoleucos, the pink-eyed duck, Malacorjpynchus memhranaceus, the musk duck, Biziura lobata, and the freckled duck, Stictonetta naevosa. There is but one species to each of these remarkable genera (all forms peculiar to the Australian region) and it would be a thousand pities to see any of these birds become extinct.