63.2 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Wetmore on a new Hawk from Porto Rico. 



[A new Accijjiter from Porto Rico, with notes on the allied forms of 

 Cuba and San Domingo. By Alex. Wetmore. Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, xxvii. 1914, pp. 119-122.] 



The title of this paper sufficiently shows its contents. 

 The new form described is Accipiter striatus venator, and is 

 closely allied to A. s. striatus of San Domingo, formerly 

 known as A. fringilloides Vigors. Perhaps we may be 

 allowed to add that it seems somewhat rash to distinguish a 

 new subspecies of Hawk from the examination of a single 

 example. 



White on Birds from Central Australia. 



[Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the Interior of Australia, 

 carried out by Capt. S. A. White, M.B.O.U., from July to October 1913. 

 Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia, xxxviii. 1914, pp. 407-474, pis. xxi.-xxxix. 

 and maps.] 



Capt. S. A. White has recently made a very interesting 

 journey to the desert centre of Australia, rendered classical 

 by the anthropological researches of Prof. Spencer and 

 M-V. Gillen. Leaving Adelaide in July 1913, accompanied 

 by his wife, he travelled from rail-head 1300 miles on camel- 

 back, exploring the MacDonnel ranges and the country 

 round Alice Springs. His primary object was to obtain 

 birds and assist Mr. G. M.. IVIathews in his work on Australian 

 birds, but he also collected in other branches of zoology. 

 The present report contains a narrative and an account of 

 the birds by Capt. White himself, together with that of the 

 other groups and on the botany by other specialists. 



About a hundred species of birds were met with and are 

 duly listed in. this report with interesting field-notes ; the 

 nomenclature followed is that of Mr. Mathews, but no new 

 forms are here described, nor are there any critical or 

 taxonomic notes. These will no doubt appear when the 

 collection is examined by Mr. Mathews. 



Capt. White is to be congratulated on having performed 

 a most successful expedition into what is undoubtedly 

 one of the most arid and forbidding tracts of country on 

 the face of the globe. 



