372 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



very disastrous. Near Apollo Bay in Victoria^ one of his 

 correspondents J ^yho after a heavy bush-fire visited the beach 

 to which it had extended, was astonished to find '' hundreds 

 of birds of all sizes and colours lying stranded at high-water 

 mark. The line of dead birds extended more or less thickly 

 for five hundred yards/^ 



The swamps of the Murray in the Riveriua district of New 

 South Wales are a favourite resort of water-birds, and we 

 find in Mr. Le Souef's pages most interesting particulars of 

 their nesting-places, which quite rival those of the Lower 

 Danube in extent and variety. Some of these are well 

 illustrated in the photographs, as is also the remarkable 

 nest of the '' Grey Jumper " or " Twelve- Apostie-bird " 

 [Struthidea cinerea) met with in the same district. 



But perhaps the most entertaining part of Mr. Le Souef's 

 volume is his account of his adventures in Queensland. 

 Here, besides many other rarities, he found and photo- 

 graphed the nesting-place of the Beautiful Parrakeet 

 {Psephotus pulcherrimus) , the only Parrot in Australia that 

 does not build in hollow trees. It excavates a hole into the 

 mound of the termites aud forms an egg-chamber in the 

 centre. Here also he found the extraordinary "playground " 

 of the rare Tooth-billed Bovver-bird {Scenopceus dentirostris) . 



Mr. Le Souef's 440 pages are replete with similar anecdotes 

 of wild life in different parts of Australia, and all who take 

 any interest in that wonderful Continent will, we are sure, 

 read them with pleasure. 



39. Lonnherg's Edition of Li/mceus's ' Methodus Avium 

 Sveticarum.' 



[Caroli Linnsei Med. Botan. & Zoolog. cult. Methodus Avium 

 Sveticarum, sive Enumeratio avium fere omnium quae in tota svecia 

 reperiuntur, secundum uovam et naturalem a rostro desumptam 

 methodum in classes distributa ; ita ut cuilibet generi proprius character, 

 unicuique specie! vera differentia ad^ignata reperitur. Utgifveu af Eiuar 

 Lonnberg. Upsala, 1907. 96 pp., 1 pi.] 



Professor Lonnberg has sent us a copy of his reprint of 

 this well-known work of Linnseus, which will be most useful 



