1917-] Recently published Oi'nithological fVurks. 109 



White on the Exploration of Central Australia. 



[Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North -western Regions of 

 South Australia. By S. A. White, M.li.O.U., and others. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S. Australia, vol. xxxix. 1915, pp. 707-842, 2 maps and 19 plates 

 (Birds, pp. 740^76G). 



In the Far North- West. An Expedition to the Musgrave and Everard 

 Ranges. By Capt. S. A. White, M.B.O.U., pp. 1-200, many photo- 

 graphs and 2 maps. Adelaide, 1916. 8vo.] 



Ill tlie montlis of June, July, and August, 1914, Capt. 

 White, accompanied by Mr. J. P. Rogers, his hunter and 

 taxidermist, took part in an exploring expedition to the 

 Musgrave and Everard ranges, which lie in the north-west 

 corner o£ South Australia, about 300 miles west of Oodna- 

 dalta, the terminus of the railway I'unning northwards from 

 Adelaide. 



Large zoological and botanical collections were made, and 

 these are all reported on, by various specialists, in the first 

 of the publications mentioned. 



The birds m ith which we are concerned are reported on by 

 Capt. White himself. About a hundred species were either 

 noticed or brought back, and the following new forms are 

 described : — Barnardius zonarius riiyrtie, Smicrornis brevi- 

 rostris matheivsi, Leivinornis rujiventris mandeee, while several 

 others discovered on the expedition were previously described 

 by the author or by Mr. Mathews. One of the most 

 interesting finds of the expedition was the rediscovery 

 of the Chestnut-breasted Whiteface [Aphelocephala pec- 

 f oralis), a species described l)y Gould in J871, of which the 

 type and only known exam[)le had been lost. 



' A supplementary chapter to that on the birds has been 

 written by Mr. A. M. Lea on the stomach-contents of the 

 birds. From the examination of these, it appears that ants 

 of various species form the staple food of the insectivorous 

 birds of central Australia. 



The second title at the iiead of this notice is that of 

 a little volume containing a more popular account of 

 Capt. White's travels into the remote and distant interior 

 of Australia, and we have found much to interest us in 



