Vol. VII.") Ftom Magazines, &c. 10^ 



1907 J * ' -^^o 



come to liand of a great mortality among the Wild Ducks in 

 the Lake district. — £",rrtw/;/^r (Launceston), 17/7/07. 



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Additions to the Avifauna of the County of 

 Cumberland (N.S.W.) — In the " Records of the Australian 

 Museum," vol. vi., part 5, Mr. A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., publishes a 

 list of 13 species of birds (additions chiefly due to climatic 

 influence) supplementary to his previously published lists. 



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North-Western Birds. — According to The Ibis (April, 

 1907) Dr. Ernst Hartert has contributed supplementary notes 

 in the Novitates Zoological, vol. xiii., p. 754, on Ametrornis 

 woodzvardi, Collyriocincla zvoodwardi, and GyninorJiina tibicoi 

 longirostris, the two former being figured. The birds were 

 collected by Mr. Tunney and described as new by Dr. Hartert 

 in the previous volume oi Nov. Zool. (xii., p. 194). 



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In the Examiner (Launceston) of the 9th July there appears 

 an interesting account of " An Ascent of Mount Roland," by 

 Mr. H. Stuart Dove, A.O.U. The account is chiefly descriptive, 

 and his only bird note is : — " Upon the plateau (of the Mount) 

 grew also stunted individuals of the evergreen bush, and amid 

 these a party of Yellow-breasted Parrakeets {Platycercus 

 flaviventris) were calling ' Too-sack ! too-sack ! ' vociferously." 



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Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. — ^ Volume xx. con- 

 tains the report of the Migration Committee of the B.O.U. on 

 the movements in England and Wales of a number of common 

 migratory species during the spring and early summer of 1906. 

 The amount of information this volume contains, especially 

 interesting to bird-migration students, should be as widely read 

 as possible. Mr. J. L. Bonhote, M.A., whose address is care of 

 the Zoological Society, Hanover-square, London, W., is still the 

 energetic secretary of the Migration Committee. 



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The Habits of the Birds-of-Paradise and Bower- 

 Birds OF British New Guinea. — Under this title The Ibis 

 (July, 1907) contains a very popular article by Dr. Colin C. Simson. 

 During November and December, 1905, Dr. Simson took an 

 excursion through the uplands (3,000 to 6,000 feet above sea 

 level) of the Owen-Stanley Range. He records having observed 

 many species of the rarer Birds-of-Paradise, found several nests, 

 and was fortunate in photographing the playground and garden 

 of the Orange-crested Bower-Bird {Aniblyornis). Photo.- 

 reproductions of the bower are given with Dr. Simson's article. 



