T is disappointing that the request put forth by the GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE some months ago for articles respecting Colonial arms and badges should have elicited, so far at least, but two responses. In these days, when heraldic matters. seem to share in the general breadth of view which takes in the Empire as a whole to a far greater extent and with greater realization than has ever before been done, the subject becomes one of interest. I have, therefore, ventured to attempt the composition of the Queen's territorial "ecu complet," with a result which, though very imperfect and in some respects crude, may attract attention to the subject and perhaps invite discussion. As may be imagined, the task has not been an easy one. Some of the Colonial badges, as appearing in the Admiralty Chart (ed. 1881), are of such an inadmissible character that it has been necessary to rearrange them, or rather to make new compositions based upon what seemed to be their principal or typical features. For this purpose reference has also been made to the figures appearing upon the coins of some Colonies. The present transitional status of the African colonies and |