748 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



species inhabiting the Argentine coast. Another stndy is 

 devoted to the Rheas, of whicli lie recognizes three separable 

 forms. A tliird paper deals with the Nortli American 

 Wading birds, 24 species of which winter in the sonthern part 

 of South America ; in this case there is a careful list of all 

 the published and many unpublished detailed records. We 

 notice only one new form described. This is Lepastheyiura 

 agithaloides pallida Dabbene, from Patagonia. 



Both the numbers contain a good many shorter notes, 

 personal paragraphs, and even poems. 



South Australian Ornithologist. 



[The South Australian Ornitholop^ist. A Magazine of Ornithology. 

 Vols. iv. &, V. for 1919 and 1920 ; 4 no8. in each year.] 



This little magazine, published by the South Australian 

 Ornithological Association and edited by a small committee 

 of its members, continues to reach us regularly, and the 

 last two volumes contain a number of papers almost entirely 

 concerned with observations on South Australian birds. 

 Each number includes an account of the monthly meetings 

 of the Association, and the description with biological de- 

 tails of a single member of tlie South Australian Avifauna. 



Capt. S. A. White has concluded the memoir of his father, 

 Samuel White, one of the pioneers of Australian ornitho- 

 logy and the friend and correspondent of Gould. Mr. 

 A. M. Morgan, Mr. E. Ashby, Mr. J. W. Mellor, Mr. J. N. 

 McGilp, write pleasant articles on their ornithological 

 rambles in various parts of the State. Some controversial 

 letters on nomenclature by Mr. A. J. Campbell and Capt. 

 S. A. White enliven the pages of some of the numbers of 

 the magazine, and in the January 1920 number Mr. 

 Mathews intervened with an essay on " Zoological Nomen- 

 clature : its History and Reason, " which at once drew a 

 spirited reply from Mr. Campbell. 



We notice descriptions of the following new races : — 

 Climacteris erijthrops parsoni Mellor, from the Murray river 

 valley ; Stipiturus malachurus halmaturina Parsons, from 

 Kangaroo Island, 



