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From Magazines, &c. 



Australian Finch in England. — ^Miss Joan Gladstone, 

 in IVie Avicnltur-al Alagazzfie (or November, 1907, gives a brief 

 note of the successful breeding of the Red-faced or Red-tailed 

 Finch {Bathi/da riificauda) in her aviary. 



New Australian Bird. — According to The. Ibis, January, 

 1907, Pivcilodryas Icucops albigidaris is a new bird from Cape 

 York, collected by Mr. A. S. Meek, and described by the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild and Dr. E. Hartert. 



A Vicious Magpie. — Rainbow (Victoria), Tuesday. — W. 

 Dowdy, aged 12 years, son of Mr. John Dowdy, of Kenmare West, 

 had a most unpleasant experience yesterday. A tame Magpie 

 flew up in his face, and picked the pupil of his right eye. Dr. 

 Edwards, who attended the lad, ordered his admission to Nurse 

 Krauses private hospital.— y^r^wj-, 5/3/08. 



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The Kagu of New Caledonia. — In The Avicidtural 

 Magar:ine (February, 1908), through Mr. T. H. Newman, F.L.S., 

 Mr. H. E. Finckh, of Sydney, has furnished further remarks on 

 these rare birds, which he lias had in captivity for eight years. 

 The Kagus have laid several times, and Mr. Finckh has high 

 hopes of yet being able to rear a young one 



The Abrolhos.— Mr. Alex. W. Milligan, A.O.U., has 

 contributed two entertaining and instructive articles in The 

 West Australian (dates respectively 6th and 7th December, 

 1907) on these most interesting islands. His visit was at the 

 height of the bird season, and some of his notes read more like 

 romance than reality, so great were the numbers of birds seen. 

 Notwithstanding the observations of previous visitors, Mr. 

 Milligan must be in possession of many new facts worth 

 recording in more permanent form. The group has also been 

 brought prominently under notice lately by the wreck of the 

 steamer Windsor on Pelsart Island. 



New Pigeon for Australia. — The Victorian Naturalist, 

 vol. xxiv., 1907, p. 135, contains a description by Mr. A. J. 

 North, C.M.Z.S., of a new Chalcophaps from North-western 

 Australia. Some bird skins, collected by Mr. C. E. May at 

 Port Keats, were forwarded to the Australian Museum by Mr. 

 Edwin Ashby for examination. In the parcel were three 



