150 Revtezvs. [,.st "?aii. 



Australia " (reviewed above) will illustrate some of the more 

 striking oversights. On page 31 of the "Key" Mr. Hall has 

 given "'GyninorJdna (^/^rj'tf//j' (Campbell)," reference "Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Vict., 1895, P- 206." Regarding this species Mr. North is silent, 

 notwithstanding the 7test and eggs having been also fully 

 described. It may be also mentioned that Mr. North places a 

 query (?) against Western Australia in his " Distribution " of the 

 continental form of the White-backed Magpie. He is doubt- 

 less aware that a White-backed bird is found in the great 

 Western territory. If not leucoiiota, why not give it its proper 

 name, dorsalis, and do away with an unnecessary query .'' 



(2) Mr. North, while careful to give a reference from a foreign 

 journal — Novitates Zoologicce, xii., p. 230 (1905) — for Dr. Hartert's 

 Gyinnorhina tibicen longirostris, quite overlooks his own home 

 journal — TJie Emu, vol. iii., p. 97 (1903) — for a prior reference to 

 Mr. A. W. Milligan's G. longirostris, which is quoted in Mr. 

 Hall's " Key " on page 112. By the way, it is a most singular 

 coincidence that the same specific name has been adopted inde- 

 pendently by two authorities — an almost conclusive argument 

 that the species, or sub-species at all events, is a good one. 



(3) Again taking "Key" z'. " Catalogue," on page 116 of the 

 former it is mentioned that PacJiycepJiala rufogidaris is amalga- 

 mated with P. giLtturalis — Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 1900. But the 

 " Catalogue " leaves the student unaware of the fact. 



Coming to the main object of the " Catalogue," namely, 

 " Nests and Eggs," there is another serious omission — Sittella 

 {Neosittd) striata, the nest and eggs of which have been described 

 by Mr. D, Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., &c. Moreover, the specimens were 

 collected by Mr. R. Hislop, one of Mr. North's own corre- 

 spondents. The references for Mr. Le Souef's previous descrip- 

 tions are found in The Ibis, p. 314 (1896) and a figure in The 

 Victorian Naturalist, xiii., p. 63. 



" GLIMPSES OF AUSTRALIAN BIRD LIFE." 



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[Owing to unavoidable circumstances several other reviews 

 are held over till next issue. — Eds.] 



