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The only new genus iu this part of tlie work is Penemnanthe, 

 where the tail resentibles that of a Wheatear. The species 

 leucura lias six or seven subspecies, according to whether we 

 include Saivadoin's pulverulenta of New Guinea or not. 

 Quoyornis georgianus has three races, Eopsaltria australis 

 six. The latter, first figured by White in 1790, was given 

 no less than three different names by Latham, and has had 

 other synonyms, as will be seen from the text. A second 

 sY>ecies,E. g7'iseognlaris, has four subspecies, of which loongani 

 and quoiji, both from Western Australia, are new. 



Attention should be drawn to two pages of corrections of 

 the Check-List printed in this part. 



Mathews on the dates of ornithological publications. 



[Dates of ornitliological works. By Gregory M. Mathews. Austral 

 Av. Record, iv. 1920, pp. 1-27.] 



In Appendix B of the last part o£ volume vii. of 'The 

 Birds of Australia^ Mr. Mathews attempted to provide 

 a list of the exact dates of publication of the ornithological 

 works quoted by him. Tliough a good many investigations 

 into this difficult bibliographical question have been made, 

 especially by Mr. Sherborn and Mr. Waterhouse, no one 

 has collected their results into one place easily accessible 

 to the working ornithologist, and now Mr. Mathews has 

 reprinted with additions and corrections this valuable piece 

 of research in a more accessible form. 



The publications dealt with are primarily those in which 

 the Australian birds are described ; but the list will un- 

 doubtedly be of the greatest use and service to all systematic 

 ornithologists, and we would tender our best thanks to 

 Mr. Mathews for this excellent and laborious piece of 

 work. 



Mmyhy on the Sea-birds of Peru. 



[The sea-coast and islands of Peru, Pts. I., II., Sc III. By Robert 

 Cushman Murphy. Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, vii. 1920, pp. 69-95, 

 165-187, 239-272.] 



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