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Library Notes 



By F. ERASMUS WILSON. R.A.O.U.. Hon. Librarian. 



The foUowini,^ publications have been recenllv added to the 

 R.A.O.U. library:— 



J>ritisli lairds, ])arts 3-12. 



Part 5 contains an interesting article on the "Great 

 Auk," by W. H. Mullens, xM.A., LL.M. 



Proccedinfis of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1921. 



Tlie ^k-iciiltiiral McKiaciiic. vol. xii., i)arts 7-12; vol. xiii., Nos. 

 2, v>. \'ol. xii. (11) contains an article on the successful 

 breeding of the King Parrot in England bv M. Amslet,. 

 M.B. 



Rcvuc Francaise d'Ornithologie, No. 150-156. 

 J'ictoriau Naturalist, vol. xxxviii., Nos. 6-12; vol. xxxix., Nos. 

 1,2. 



Queensland Naturalist, \ol. iii.. No. 3. 



Condor, \ol. 23, Nos. 5, 0; vol. 24, No. 2. 



23 (6) contains a splendid article on the Black-tailed 

 Gnatcatcher by Robert S. Woods, which is accompanied 

 by some beautiful photographic illustrations. 



24 (2) contains a well-illustrated paper on "A Large 

 Tern Colony in Texas," by J. R. Pemberton. 



Bird Lore, vol. xxiii., Nos., 4, 5, 6; vol. xviv.. No. 2. 



Nos. 4 and. 5 respectively have as frontispieces beautiful 

 coloured plates of Grackles and the Canada Goose. 



Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. ii., ])art 

 ii.. No. 17; vol. ix., Nos. 9-15; vol. x., Nos. 1-9. 



N'otcs on the Osteology of the Young of the Hoatzin (Opistho- 

 comus cristatiis) and other points on its Morphology, by 

 Dr. R. W. Shufeldt (author's reprint). 



South .'lustralian Ornithologist, vol. vi., Nos. 4, 5. 



No. 4. "Notes on birds met with during a visit to South- 

 West Queensland," by A. Cheneiy, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 

 ■'Some Tasmanian Bird Notes," bv Edwin Ashbv, F.L.S.,. 

 M.B.O.U. 



No. 6. "A trip to North-West Australia," by A. M. 

 Morgan, M.B., B.Ch. "Notes on birds seen during a re- 

 cent visit to the Western Darling, N.S.W.," by A. Chenery. 



Ibis, 11th series, vol. iii., No. 4; vol. iv., Nos. 1, 2. 



iv. (2) "On the sense of smell possessed bv birds," bv 

 J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



