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Review. 



" CATALOGUE OF BIRDS' EGGS," VOL. IV. 



This volume — tKe combined labours of Capt. Savilc G. Reid 

 and Messrs. Eugene W. Oates and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant — 

 contains descriptions of 620 species, the number of eggs 

 catalogued being no less than 14,917. The families dealt with 

 are from the Timeliida^ to the Certhiid.x according to the 

 " Hand-List of Birds" by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe. 



Australians will be gratified to find that so many of their 

 vernacular birds' names have been employed in the "Catalogue" 

 — such names, for instance, as Bush-Chat, Log-runner, Ground- 

 Bird, &c., but it will be difficult for them to call the familiar 

 Magpie-Lark a " Magpie-Shrike." The work is illustrated with 

 14 most excellent plates of eggs coloured to nature by the 

 artistic skill of Mr. H. Gronvold and Messrs. Pawson and 

 Brailsford. In the plates the following eggs are figured for 

 the first time, namely : — Cindosoma castanonotiim, AcantJiiza 

 inornata, AcantJiiza npicalis, Malurus splendens, Artavtiis Jiypo- 

 leiccits, Cracticus lencopteriis, and Falatnculus leucogaster. If the 

 locality (Gippsland) be correct, it is doubtful if the figure 17 on 

 plate iii. is referable to Hylacola cant a. It may be H. pyrrhopygia, 

 if it is really not a Calavianthus. As far as all the Australian 

 species are concerned there are only two other slight slips 

 noticeable. Under the Oreocichla luniilata, the two eggs 

 collected by Mr. E. D. Atkinson probably refer to the 

 Tasmanian variety, O. macrorJiyncJia ; and, under Malurus 

 lamberti, the specimen credited to Mr. White, from South 

 Australia, evidently refers to M. assiniilis (North). 



Australian oologists will no doubt be pleased that the authors 

 of the " Catalogue " recognize the Lesser Rufous-breasted 

 Shrike-Thrush as a good species, which is now designated 

 Pinarolestes gouldi instead of P. parvissinia. 



Correspondence. 



DO OTHER BIRDS BESIDE THE DICKUM DISTRIBUTE 

 MISTLETOES ? 

 To the Editors of " The Emu." 

 Sirs,— i?^ Mr. A. G. Campbell's article on the birds of Kangaroo 

 Island in the last number of The Emu, and the reference to the 

 absence of the Dicceuvi and of mistletoes {Loranthi) from there 

 and Tasmania, the following note made by Mr. J. H. Maiden to 

 the Linna^an Soc. of N.S.W., on 28th September, 1904, may be of 

 interest to him. It reads :— " The late Professor Ralph Tate 

 makes the statement {Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. vii., p. 

 556), that 'both bird (Mi.stletoe-Bird, Dtccsum) and mistletoes 



