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came through private sources, which are generally looked upon 

 with suspicion. 



An instance was given regarding the woods which have been 

 felled, where the insects swarming to the newly-cut stumps were 

 so overwhelming in their numbers that it will be impossible to 

 use those same woods for years unless the birds are allowed to 

 save i\\em.— The Queen, 23/3/iS. 



Description of a New Sub'Species of Hylacola 



pyrrhopygia (Vig. & Hors.) 



By F. E. Howe, C.M.Z.S., R.A.O.U. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. H. L. White, of Belltrees, I was 

 enabled to exhibit before the Bird Observers' Club of Victoria, on 

 22nd March, 1917, skins of a mature male and an immature 

 male and female, collected by Mr. T. P. Austin at Cobbora, New 

 South Wales, on 7th October, 1916 (see Emu, vol. xvi., part 3, 

 p. 161). 



The mature bird differs from typical specimens of H. pyrrho- 

 pygia collected near Sydney in being much paler above and 

 below. The eyebrow is much whiter, the black centre of the 

 throat and breast feathers is not so dark, and is more linear ; the 

 chestnut under tail coverts are broadly tipped with white, and the 

 tips of the outer tail feathers are whiter and broader. This bird 

 is also much larger than the typical H. pyrrhopygia collected near 

 Sydney. 



Habitat.- — Cobbora, New South Wales. 



Type specimens now in the H. L. White Collection, National 

 Museimi, Melbourne. 



I propose that this race be scientifically known as Hylacola 

 pyrrhopygia magna, and in the vernacular as Large Ground- Wren. 



Publications Received Since April, 1917. 



W. B. Alexander, M.A., Hon. Librarian. 



[It is regretted that, owing to pressure on space, no con- 

 tributions to the library were acknowledged in vol. xvii. of The 

 Emu.'] 



Bird Lore, vol. xviii.. No. 6 ; vol. xix., Nos. 2-6 ; vol. xix., Nos. 



I and 2. 

 Avicultural Magazine (3rd series), vol. viii., Nos. 1-12 ; vol. ix., 



Nos. 1-5. 

 Austral Avian Record, vol. ii., Nos. 4-8 ; vol. iii., Nos. 1-3. 

 Ibis (loth series), vol. v., Nos. 1-4. 

 Journal of the South African Ornithologists Union, vol. xi., No. 2. 



