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savage hreasl." 'iMie natives argued amongst themselves, that 

 if they killed "white ])fello\v" there would be no more music, and 

 they desisted from their evil intentions, so Mr. Gulliver ascer- 

 tained subsequently. He is alive and well to-day to tell the story 

 Mr. Chisholm's "history" is of especial interest to many mem- 

 bers of the R.A.O.U. It contains a group photo, of members 

 and friends who attended the annual meeting, T'risbane, 1910. 

 By a strange coincidence, the only unnamed ])erson in the i)ic- 

 ture has a "deathless name" — Cadet D. 15. Fry, of the Australian 

 ^luseum, who fell in the Great \\;\\\ 



LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AXI) 

 TERNS. 



This important work, by Arthur Cleveland Bent, is issued as 

 Bulletin 113 by the Smithsonian Institution, United States 

 National Museum. The former i)art, Ikilletin 107, "Diving 

 Birds," for want of space, was only briefly noticed in Euiu, xix., 

 p. 327. 



The present Bulletin, a respectable volume of over 300 octavo 

 j)ages, is interesting to Australians because it contains nine species 

 which are on the new Check-list of Australian birds, namely: — 

 Chlidonias leucoptera (White- winged Black Tern), Gelochelidon 

 nilotica (Gull-billed Tern), Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern), 

 Sterna doiigalli (Roseate Tern), Sterna ancethetus (Bridled 

 Tern), Sterna fuscata (Sooty Tern), Anous stolidus (Noddy), 

 Stercorarins poniarinus (Poramine Skua), Stercorarhis para- 

 siticus (Arctic Skua). It goes without saying that the work by 

 Mr. Bent and his associates is most thorough, and, as previously 

 stated, "a triumph for the field oologist and observer." The 

 coloured plates of eggs are realistic even to the rough-grained 

 paper, which adds to the natural appearance of the surface of 

 the shells, and the numerous half-tone photos of birds, nests, 

 eggs, etc., enhance greatly the value of the work. "The more 

 useful, the more necessary," as a recent writer has stated, "be- 

 cause there is a tendency to consider the correct naming of a 

 species as the whole end and aim of bird study, to the neglect 

 of its more vital and absorbing phases." 



NEW NATURE MAGAZINE. 

 Xatureland, the new^ English quarterly journal of natural 

 history, founded and edited by Graham Renshaw, ]\I.D.. 

 F.R.S.E., devotes a fair amount of space to notes and articles 

 on birds. In the second number, for instance, J. ^I. Vaughan, 

 writes on "Bird A\'ords," C. B. Horsbrugh contributes "Orni- 

 thological Notes from Cyprus," and the ^larquis of Tavistock 

 discusses "Parrakeet Acclimatisation in England." The Manpiis 

 states that Black-tailed Parrots or Smokers (Polytelis nielaintra) 



