798 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



A review — on the whole, kindly — of the new B.O.U. List 

 forms the chief article of tiie last number of the volume 

 now noticed. 



The Emu. 



[The Emu. Official Organ of the Royal Australian Ornithologis-ts' 

 Union. Vol, xiv. July 1914-April 1916."] 



Our Australian contemporary continues to flourish, and 

 the four numbers forming the last complete volume bear 

 witness to the interest taken in ornithology in the Anti- 

 podes. The volume opens with a coloured plate of two new 

 Parrots, recently discovered by the efforts of Dr. Mac- 

 gillivray in northern Queensland — Geoffroyus geoffroyi 

 maclennani and Eclectus pectoralis macgiUlvrayi. No Parrots 

 of either of these genera have previously been obtained on 

 the Australian continent. 



The January number contains an account of the Annual 

 Meeting of the R.A.O.U., which took place at Melbourne 

 in November. The retiring President, Mr. A. E. H. Mat- 

 tingley, gave an address on the much-debated subject of the 

 nomenclature of Australian birds, which between the views 

 of the more conservative party of Australian ornithologists, 

 as represented in the Official R.A.O.U. Check-list, and 

 those of Mr. G. M. Mathews, as expounded in his ' List of 

 the Birds of Australia/ 1913, have been in some considerable 

 confusion of late. Mr Mattingley's conclusions are some- 

 Avhat non-committal, but he apparently looks forward to 

 the time when strict priority and trinomialisra will be 

 adopted by all Australian ornithologists. Mr. Mattingley 

 is succeeded as President of the Union by Capt. S. A. White, 

 and Mr. A. J. Campbell as co-editor of the 'Emu^ by Dr. J. 

 A. Leach. The five days' Meeting of the Union con- 

 cluded with an excursion to Mallacoota Island, where several 

 days were spent and a number of interesting birds were 

 identified, a list of which is given by Capt. White. 



An important paper on the myology and other points in 

 the anatomy of Strepera, a peculiar Australian type of rather 



