128 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



19. North on Australian Birds. 



[(1) Description of a new Species of Poephila. By Alfred J. North. 

 Records Austr. Mus. v. pt. 4 (1904). 



(2) On Heterochrosis in Australian Psittaci. Id. ibid. 



(3) On the Bower of the Eastern Bower-bird, CMamydodera orientalis 

 Gould. Id. ibid. 



(4) Description of the Eggs of the White-quilled Rock-Pigeon, Petro- 

 phassa albipennis Gould. Id. ibid.] 



Mr. A. J. North sends us copies of four short contribu- 

 tions to the ' .Records of the Australian Museum.' In the 

 first he describes a new Poephila — P. neglect a, probably from 

 Queensland, and states that P. nigrotecta Hart. (Bull. B. O. C. 

 viii. p. lix, 1899) is apparently the same as P. atropygialis 

 Cart, et Rams. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. i. 4, 1877, p. 382. 

 In the second he describes cases of xanthochroism, melanism, 

 erythrism, albinism, and other abnormal plumages in Aus- 

 tralian Parrots. Iu the third he describes and figures the 

 bower of CMamydodera orientalis from N.E. Queensland. 

 In the last he describes the eggs of the rare Rock-Pigeon, 

 Petrophassa albipennis, from N.W. Australia. The nest of 

 this Pigeon is placed on the ground. 



20. Patterson's ' Xotes of an East Coast Naturalist. 3 



Notes of an East Coast Naturalist. By Arthur II. Patterson. Illus- 

 trated by E. Southgate. London, 1904. Price 6s.] 



When in 1868 the British Association met at Norwich, a 

 local naturalist proposed to arrange an excursion to u The 

 Broads/' for the delectation of Section D, then comprising 

 Zoology and. Botany. The scheme failed, for none but the 

 East Anglians present seemed to have even heard of the ex- 

 istence of " The Broads/' and were incredulous of assurances 

 that the district was worth a visit, as one of unique character 

 in England, and of especial interest on account of its Fauna 

 and Flora. The six-and-thirty years since passed have seen 

 a great change wrought, and nowadays the Broads of Norfolk 

 are as much overrun with excursionists — yea, " trippers " of 

 the baser sort — as Blackpool or Southend, to the detriment, 

 of course, of their natural charms and of their natural inmates, 



