J 58 From Magazines, &c. V Emu 



new species are recorded by Dr. E. Hartert in Novitates 

 Zoologiac, vol. xii., p. 194 (1905), which is not to hand yet, but 

 it is probable that Gyiiinorliina tibicen longirostris refers to the 

 species described as G. longirostris by Mr. A. W. Milligan in TJie 

 Eniii, vol. iii., p. 96 (1903). 



Siberia. — Mr. R. E. Trebilcock relates his experiences in 

 Northern Siberia in the September issue of TJie Geelong 

 Naturalist. This was the trip which he made with Mr. Robert 

 Hall, F.LS., two years ago. If the pursuit of ornithology has 

 its delights, it has also its drawbacks ; but as a rule memory 

 accentuates the former and obliterates the latter, so that the 

 recollection of one's trips afield usually resolves itself into a 

 series of vistas coideur de rose. Not so with Mr. Trebilcock, who 

 has an unkind word to say about Vladivostock mud, Russian 

 post-waggons, rest-houses, mosquitoes, black bread, and moss in 

 turn, and even speaks disrespectfully of the Tundra, that Mecca 

 of the Australian ornithologist. Evidently he does not envy the 

 Limicoline birds their annual visit to those parts. One can only 

 hope that this is not " the real Siberia." 



GoUGH Island. —A paper by Mr. W. E. Clarke in The Ibis 

 for April deals with the ornithological results of the visit of the 

 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to Gough Island in the 

 South Atlantic. This is a small, uninhabited, once volcanic 

 island, lying 1,500 miles south-west of the Cape of Good of 

 Hope and 2,000 miles north-east of Cape Horn. The avifauna 

 of the island stands at 23 species, of which only three are terres- 

 trial forms (two Buntings and a Gallinule). Its interest for 

 Australian ornithologists lies in the fact that of the wide-ranging 

 oceanic species which visit our coasts no less than 16 are found 

 there — namely, Anoiis stolidiis, Mega/estris antarctica, Oceanites 

 oceanicns, Cymodrouia grallaria, Puffinus assiuiilis, Priojinus 

 cinereiis, Majaqueiis icquinoctiahs, Qisirclata mollis, CEstrelata 

 lessoni, Ossifraga gigautea, Prion vittatiis, P. desolatus, Pele- 

 canoides urinatrix, Diouicdca cxnlans, D. nicliuiophrys, and 

 Pluvbctria fuliginosa. Singularly enough, the photos, of Gough 

 Island scenery which accompany the article distinctly suggest 

 the wilder parts of the southern coast of Australia. 



An Island Outing. — The first article in the September- 

 October number of The Condor is a very interesting account by 

 W. L. Finley of a visit to Three-arch Rocks, on the coast of 

 Oregon. The difficulties of landing and camping on the 



