Recently published Ornithological Works. 371 



the obituarial notice of Professor Newton. We may call 

 attention in the last to an error of punctuation (p. 22o, 

 1. 31) ; the semicolon should be after " North America," 

 which gives a different sense to the passage. 



38. Le Souef's ' Wild Life in Australia.' 



[Wild Life in Australia. By W. H. Dudley Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., 

 M.B.O.U., kc, Director, Zoological Gardens, 3Ielbourne. Wiih 170 

 Original Photographs by the author and others. 1 vol., 440 pp. Melbourne : 

 Whitcombe and Tombs, L.] 



We have had accounts of the Wild Life of Spain and 

 other less-frequented parts of Europe, but books on 

 the Wild Life of Australia are almost unknown to us. 

 The best of recent volumes on the subject are perhaps 

 Lumholtz^s ' Amongst Cannibals ' and Semon's ' Australian 

 Bush.' Certainly no one could be better qualified to 

 narrate his impressions in different parts of the Australian 

 ■Continent than Mr. W. H. D. Le Souef, the Director of the 

 famous Zoological Gardens at Melbourne, who has visited 

 all the States of the Commonwealth, and has explored some 

 of the most interesting parts of them.. In the present 

 book we have chapters on three districts in Victoria, on 

 various localities in New South Wales and the islands 

 in Bass Strait, as well as an account oE several visits to 

 Queensland, and finally of a short stay in Western Australia. 

 In all these places Mr. Le Souef penetrated deep into the 

 most remote forests, and seems to have been most successful in 

 procuring specimens and taking photographs. In his style 

 of narrative Mr. Le Souef rather reminds us of the late 

 Frank Buckland, passing from one subject to another with 

 great rapidity, and ornamenting his instructive periods with 

 entertaining remarks. Of a large series of photographs, 

 no less than one hundred and seventy, nearly all of which are 

 his own handiwork, are reproduced in the present volume. 

 Many of these are very good, the Australian climate, as we 

 know, being celebrated for its photographic excellence, and 

 many of them are devoted to birds and eggs. The effects 

 of bush-fires in Australia, Mr. Le Souef says, are often 



