igiyO Recently published Oniitholof/lcal Works. 101 



form which generally nests in cliffs, fouiul m the North 

 Atlantic from Nova Scotia to the British Islands and east- 

 wards to the Kola Peninsula, and which he regards as the 

 typical race, Phalacrocorax carbo carbo (L.), and a smaller 

 form, usually nesting in trees, found in central Europe 

 west to Holland and the coasts of France and south to the 

 Mediterranean. This he calls P. c. subcormoranus (Brchni). 

 He seems uncertain whether this last-named form is found 

 in the British Islands. This matter must be further 

 investigated. 



The last paper by Dr. Hartert alone deals with some 

 errors, chiefly misprints, in the 25th volume of the ' Cata- 

 logue of Birds in the British Museum,' containing the Gulls 

 and Terns, and written by Howard Saunders. 



In the first of the two papers by Lord Rothschild and 

 Dr. Hartert, Coracina welchmani kulambangrtB, from Kulam- 

 bangra, and C.papuensis perpallida, from Bougainville, both 

 in the Solomon Islands, are described as new, and a critical 

 list of the various forms of the latter species is given. 



The second note contains a description of a new Fly- 

 catcher, Monacha cinerascens rosselianus, from Rossel Island, 

 of the Louisiade Group east of New Guinea. 



Mathews on the Birds of Australia. 



[The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. v. pt. 3, 

 pp. 249-352, pis. 255-266. London (Witherby), May 1916. 4to. j 



This part, which concludes the fifth volume of the work, 

 also concludes the families of the Owls. The author regrets 

 that he is not able to give longer accounts of their life- 

 histories, but may console himself with the reflection that 

 the woodland species probably do not differ therein to any 

 great degree, and that the main points are already made 

 clear in his pages. 



Attention is particularly drawn to certain very distinct 

 characteristics of " Ninow " or " Hieracoglaux " strenua, 

 which have caused Mr. Mathews to create for it the new 



