742 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



gives a full account of the splendid collection of Australian 

 Birds' eggs formed by Mr. H. L. White. To our mind the 

 plates of Regent-Birds' and Ospreys 5 eggs look a little as if 

 Mr. White and his collectors were overdoing the affair, but 

 we may safely leave our Australian cousins to see that no 

 harm is done to the rarer species. Finally, Mr. S. W. 

 Jackson describes the nest and eggs of Pachycephala lanioides. 



In January we find the Minutes of the Ninth Annual 

 Session of the Australian Union, held at Adelaide under 

 the presidency of Mr. D. Le Souef, whose portrait accom- 

 panies the letterpress. Excursions were made to the Mount 

 Lofty ranges, the Eyre peninsula, and elsewhere with in- 

 teresting results; a committee was appointed to collect and 

 report upon local names of birds ; a motion was passed that 

 a protected area ought to be provided on Kangaroo Island, 

 and various other business was transacted. The President's 

 address was on " Bird Sanctuaries/' and Mr. Mattingley 

 read a paper on the habits of the Cuckoos. 



Articles by Mr. R. Hall concerned with the Eyre penin- 

 sula (2 pis.), by Mr. C. Barrett on Neophema petrophila (pi.), 

 by Mr. E. M. Cornwall on Ardea sumatrana (pi.), by Mr. F. 

 M. Littler on a trip to Ninth Island, Bass Strait, by Mr. A. 

 F. Crossman on the Birds of Broome, N.W.A., by Mr. II. S. 

 Dove on the life-history of the Tasmanian Blue Wren, by Mr. 

 W. J. Armstrong on Albatross Island, and by Mr. H. W. 

 W ilson on the first " Bird Day " in the Commonwealth, help 

 to till up this part, and afford much useful information chiefly 

 of a local character. Mr. S. W. Jackson describes as new the 

 eggs of Acanthiza tenuirostris and Amytornis yigantura. 



More than half the April part is occupied by an important 

 paper on the birds of the East Murchison district by Mr. F. 

 L. Whitlock, with no less than ten plates. He collected for 

 Mr. 11. L. White at Lake Way, Lake Violet, Milly Pool, 

 and other localities, and was wonderfully successful, finding 

 nests of Peltohyas australis (pi.), Cinclosoma marginatum (pi.), 

 Acanthiza robustirostris, the new A. ivhitlocki (pi.), A. uropy. 

 gialis (pi.) 5 A. tenuirostris, Stipiturus rujiceps, Amytornis 

 yigantura (pi.), A. striatus (pi.), Lacustrceca whitei (col. pi.), 



