Recently published Ornithological Works. 723 



view of checking the ravages of a Psychic! rnotli, (Eceticns 

 platensis, which was a great pest to the gardens there. Not 

 only, however^ has our Sparrow failed to do this, but it has 

 become a great pest itself, and has almost exterminated the 

 little bird [Zonotrichia pileata) that plays the part of the 

 European Sparrow in most parts of South America. 



Herr Berg also gives further evidence to show that the 

 egg on which Rhea nana of Lydekker (see Kevista Mus. La 

 Plata, vi. p. 103) was established is only an abnormally 

 small egg of Rhea darwini. 



120. Blatiford on the Distribution of Indian Animals. 



[The Distribution of Vertebrate Animals in India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 By W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S. (Abstract.) Proc. Roy. Soc. Ixvii. 

 pp. 484-492.] 



This is an abstract of a memoir, read before the Hoyal 

 Society by one of our highest authorities on the subject to 

 which it refers, and ultimately to be published in the 

 ' Philosophical Transactions.' Dr. Blanford divides the 

 whole area of which he treats into 19 ''tracts," and states 

 the conclusions arrived at after a review of their different 

 faunas. He recognizes three subregions in the continental 

 portion of the Indo-Malay or Oriental Region — namely, the 

 Cisgangetic, Transgangetic, and Malayan. 



121. Campbell's ' Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds.' 



[Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, including the geographical 

 distribution of the species and popular observations thereupon. By 

 Archibald James Campbell, Melbourne. With Maps, 28 Coloured 

 Plates, and 131 Photographic Illustrations. Printed for the author by 

 Pawson & Bailford, Sheffield. 2 vols. 8vo. 1901. Price £3 Ss. net.] 



We have received with great pleasure the two handsome 

 and well illustrated volumes now before us, in which IMr. 

 Campbell has recorded not only his own experiences but a 

 summary of all that is as yet known of the Nests and Eggs 

 of the Birds of Australia. It is stated that Gould had 

 planned a book on the subject, and these volumes are appro- 

 priately dedicated to that great ' Birdman,^ as he loved to 

 call himself, and to his principal collector, Gilbert. They 



