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collected on Kent Group, Bass Strait), are referable to one (the 

 first-named) species, while the eggs of Strepera arguta, from 

 Flinders Range, South Australia, may be referable to the 

 new species, vS^. fusca.^ It would be extremely interesting to 

 learn more about the history of the set of eggs of the Curlew 

 {Nu}ne?tius cyanopus) taken on the northern coast of Western 

 Australia by Mr. L. Dumas. The find could be understood if it 

 were on the " northern coast of Siberia." But perhaps the 

 finding of the ^'g^'?< of the real eastern Curlew in Australia is an 

 exception akin to the finding of the eggs of the Lesser Golden 

 Plover in New Zealand.-f- 



Alas ! in this work-a-day world the bird-lover is no more 

 exempt from the pressing demands of life than other mortals, 

 and Mr. Jackson has been compelled to part with his beautiful 

 and well-filled cabinets. The concluding paragraph in his 

 preface reads thus : — " The collection has now passed from my 

 hands, having been purchased by another bird-lover — viz., Henry 

 L. White, Esq., Belltrees, near Scone, New South Wales ; but 

 though I can no longer pore over the treasures it contains, 

 pleasant recollections of the building will always be with me, 

 and the thought of it bring back happy memories of many 

 golden days and sparkling nights spent in the open." 



Mr. Jackson is deserving of genuine sympathy in having to 

 abandon (for a time, at least, it is hoped) his life-long study, 

 but he may rest assured that in his unique " Catalogue and 

 Data " he has, in the cause of Australian ornithology, left on 

 record for all time a volume of interesting, useful, and original 

 matter, which must be acknowledged by every conscientious 

 author coming after him. 



[The illustrations are from blocks loaned through the courtesy 

 of Mr. H. L. White, Belltrees, Scone, N.S.W.] 



[" A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares)." By F. Du Cane Goflnian, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., President of the British Ornithologists' Union, &c. , &c. With 

 hand-coloured plates by J. C. Keulemans. In five parts. Part i. Witherby and 

 Co., 326 High Holborn, London. December, 1907. | 



A PRELIMINARY notice of the above-mentioned classical work 

 b)' Dr. Godman was given in TJie Emu, vol. vii., p. 169. 



Although the edition has been limited to 225 copies, and very 

 few reserved for reviews, the editors of this journal have been 

 favoured with a copy of part i. (which deals with the Storm- 

 Petrels) of this important monograph. The work in general will 

 be of peculiar interest to Australians and New Zealanders, 

 because about 50 species of their sea-birds will be described, if 

 not figured, therein. 



Following the scientific name of the species the vernacular 



* EtHu, vol. v., p. 27. + Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xvi., p. 30S (1883). 



