700 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



of North-west Australia and takes for his first instalment 

 those of the Wyndham district, which includes hilly ridges, 

 plains, and salt marshes. He gives us a list of 72 species, 

 and adds notes, largely on the colour of the soft parts. 

 Mr. H. W. Ford has a paper on the birds of the Yackan- 

 dandah Creek Valley, Victoria ; and Mr. A. G. Campbell 

 one on the genus Pardalotus, in which the difference of the 

 breeding-places and nests of the spotted and streak-headed 

 members of the group should be specially noticed. Mr. R. 

 Hall furnishes notes on Gymnorhina, its habits, notes, and 

 nest, all of which are of considerable interest. Mr. W. 

 E. Weatherill describes as a new species Pseudoyerygone 

 cantator, near P. fusca, from the coast and rivei's of S.E. 

 Queensland, and its nest and eggs. 



In " Stray Feathers '"' are to be found some interesting 

 notes on Aboriginal Names, on Wood-Swallows as honey- 

 eaters, on the Blue Wren nesting in ivy (pi.) and the Pilot- 

 bird; while Mr. Mattingley writes on the need of a standard 

 colour-chart, and the Editors give us welcome news of the 

 restrictions placed on bird-traffic in the Territory of Papua. 



For a frontispiece we have a picture of the feeding-ground 

 of the Laughing Jackass, Cat-bird (^luroedus viridis), and a 

 Pitta {Pitta strepitans) ; the ground is covered with broken 

 shells and among them is a stone used as an anvil. 



The part issued in June 1909 is a special publication, 

 entirely devoted to Mr. S. W. Jackson's recent trip to 

 Northern Queensland in search of the nest and eggs of the 

 Tooth-billed Bower-bird [Scenopaetes dentirostris). How 

 well he succeeded, in company with Mr. Frizelle, in observing 

 the birds' habits and in finally discovering several nests with 

 eggs and young, will be seen by reading his long article, 

 and Mr. White, at whose instance he undertook the journey, 

 must be thoroughly satisfied. A coloured plate is given of 

 the birds and several photographs of their nests and play- 

 grounds. Mr. Jackson spent most of his time in the Barron 

 River Valley, among the Tinaroo and Atherton jungle-forests, 

 where the Tooth-billed Bower-bird is not uncommon. It 



