Vol. VI 

 1907 



■ I Reviews. 149 



in the " Horn Expedition Report," and while retaining Dr. E. P. 

 Ramsay's division of provinces, &c., Mr. Hall has, for convenience 

 sake, substituted the numerals i to 9 respectively for these areas. 

 Touching "Species and Sub-Species Recently Described as New," 

 Mr. Hall's annotations are brief: in many cases he merely — 

 wisely, perhaps — records the reference to which students can 

 refer and make their own deductions. In his "Additions to and 

 Suggested Alterations in Text " the author enters more 

 debatable ground. For instance — (i) That AcantJuzadieinenensis 

 (Gould) equals A. ewingi (Gould). Students now accept these 

 as distinct. See Emu, vol. iii,, p. 179 (Legge), and " Nests and 

 Eggs of Birds," vol. i., p. 273 (North). (2) That MelitJireptus IcEtior 

 (Gould) is a fully adult form of M. gularis (Gould). Evidence 

 in the shape of an authenticated series of each is against this. 

 See EfnH,yo\. iv., p. 71, also " Nests and Eggs," p. 369 (Campbell). 

 It is of much interest to local ornithologists to learn that there 

 is a second Gallinule or Moor-Hen in Australia — namely, 

 G.frontata (Wallace), found in North Queensland ; also a new 

 Stint — Limonites dauiascensis (Horsfield) — found in North-West 

 Australia. 



Mr. Hall is to be highly complimented on the thoroughness 

 of this excellent and useful Key, which, it may be suggested, 

 forms a capital foundation for the committee of the Australasian 

 Ornithologists' Union for the " Check-List " of Australian birds 

 (of which, by the way, Mr. Hall is the official " convener ") to 

 work upon. The " get-up " of the " Key " also reflects the greatest 

 credit on the printers, Messrs. Walker, May and Co., for their 

 clear and careful work. No work of reference is absolutely safe 

 without a really first-class printer. 



SPECIAL CATALOGUE NO. I, AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, SYDNEY. 



After a cessation of over two years, this important work, 

 " Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and 

 Tasmania," has been continued under the authorship of the 

 official Ornithologist, Mr. A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., by the publica- 

 tion of part I of vol. ii. 



This part contains the families Laniidce, Certhiidce, Sittidce, and 

 part of the Melipliagidce—'id.^cxn^'im^ groups, in which Mr. North 

 furnishes specially full and interesting information from personal 

 observation of those species found breeding in and around 

 Sydney. The figures of eggs, which are life size, are reproduced 

 by the heliotype process at the Government Printing Office, 

 Sydney, from photographs taken under the direction of Mr. 

 W. A. Gullick and the supervision of Mr. A. E. Dyer. 



The only fault that can be found with this artistic and classical 

 work is, as has been previously pointed out, its " sins of omission." 

 For the work's sake these omissions are greatly to be regretted. 

 (i) Reference to Mr. Robert Hall's "Key to the Birds of 



