Recently published Ornithological Works. 663 



" One of the most remarkable instances of the chaniie of 

 habits in wild birds is shown in the case of the common 

 Rhinoceros-bird, which formerly fed on ticks and the other 

 parasites infesting game and domestic animals. It was not 

 mfrequent for an animal suffering from a sore to be so badiy 

 probed by these birds that it died as a result. Since the 

 cattle-plague destroyed the immense herds in Ukambani 

 and nearly all the sheep and goats were consumed during 

 the famine, the Rhinoceros-bird, deprived of its former food, 

 has become carnivorous, and at the present time any animal 

 not constantly watched is liable to be killed by it. Perfectly 

 healthy animals have their ears eaten down to the bone, and 

 holes torn in their backs and in the femoral regions.' ' 



115. Le Souef's Visit to the Furneaux Islands. 



[A Visit to the Furneaux Group of Islands. By D. Le Souef, 

 C.M.Z.S. Vict. Nat. xviii. pp. 181-188.] 



Mr. D. Le Souef, who, we are informed, has now succeeded 

 his father in the Secretaryship of the Zoological Gardens at 

 Melbourne, has given the field-naturalists of Victoria an 

 interesting description of his visit to the Furneaux group of 

 islands in Bass' Straits. Here is the well-known home of 

 the Mutton-bird {Piiffinus tenuirostris) , besides "rookeries" 

 ol: the Gannet [Sula serrator) and White-breasted Cormorant 

 {Phalacrocorax goiddi), Avith nesting-grounds of many other 

 birds. A list of 54 species " seen and identified " is given. 



116. Loring on Birds from Alaska. 



[Notes ou Mammals and Birds observed in Southern Alaska in 1901. 

 By J. Alden Loring, Sixth Ann, Rep, New York Zool. Soc, 1902, 

 p. 145.] 



Mr. Loring's journey to Alaska in 1901 was undertaken iu 

 order to provide living animals for the Zoological Society's 

 Park at New York, to which he is attached as " Field- 

 Agent." But at his principal station at Cook Inlet, on 

 the southern coast of Alaska, and elsewhere he managed to 

 make observations on certain mammals and birds that he met 

 with, which are recorded iu this paper. The birds noticed 



