110 Recently published Ornithological M^orks. [Ibis, 



perusing it. Many observations ou the birds and other 

 animals met witii are scattered through the pages, and the 

 account of tlie natives of the Everard range, where Capt. 

 White was camped by himself for quite a long time, is of 

 special interest. 



Both volumes are illustrated by a number of photographs 

 of scenery, natives, and vegetation, all taken by Capt. White 

 himself, and we must heartily congratulate him on his most 

 successful piece of zoological exploration in the central 

 deserts of Australia. 



The Auk. 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xxxiii. 

 1916.] 



The annual volume of the 'Auk' recently completed is 

 fully up to the standard of past years, and contains a number 

 of articles wliich will bo read with pleasure, as well as with 

 profit, by all ornithologists. We will endeavour briefly to 

 indicate the scope of some of these, omitting, of course, 

 reference to contributions which have already been noticed 

 in our pages. 



Among the faunal papers Mr. H. Mousley contributes 

 a long article on the Birds of Hatlcy, Quebec Province ; 

 Messrs. Nichols & Harper on tlie Shore-birds of Long 

 Island ; Mr. A. P. Saiitli on the Birds of Kerr (Jounty, 

 Texas ; Mr. S. F. Eathburn ou those of the Olympic 

 Mountains in Washington State ; and Mr. A. H. Norton 

 on some rare Birds recently noticed in Maine. Mr. R. 

 F. Hussey writes a pleasant article on the spring Birds 

 met with near the Astronomical Observatory at La Plata 

 in the Argentine, and Mr. Wetmore on the Birds of 

 Vieques Island, which lies off the eastern coast of Porto 

 Uico and where the writer spent about a month in the 

 spring of 1912. 



Of more general interest is a long paper by Mr. Julian 

 S. Huxley on '' Bird-watching and the Biological Sciences." 

 It will be remembered that Mr. Huxley, a grandson of 

 Prof. Huxley, is now Assistant-Professor of Biology at the 



