■618 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



89. ' The Efjiu.' 



[The Emu. A Quaterly Magazine to popularize tlie Study and Pro- 

 tection of Native Birds. Vol. vii. pt. 4, and vol. viii. pt. 1 (April, July, 

 1908).] 



The most important paper in these two parts seems to be 

 that by Mr. H. C. Oberholser entitled " A Synopsis of the 

 Genera and Species of Cygninse/^ in which the forms are 

 discussed, and their " type localities/' characteristics^ and 

 geographical distribution are given^ with a key to the genera 

 and species. These genera, according to the writer, are 

 Palceocycnus, with one species, P. falconeri (extinct) ; Olor, 

 with species or subspecies 0. buccinator, 0. columbianus, 0. 

 ■bewicki bewicki, 0. bewicki minor, and 0. cygnus [Clangocycnus 

 is used as a new subgenus for 0. buccinator, the remaining 

 species being included in a subgenus Olor) ; Cygnus, with 

 species C. olor and C. melanocoryphus ; C/iewo/>2s, with species 

 Chenopis atrata, C. sumnerensis (extinct), and C. nanus (ex- 

 tinct); ArclicBocycnus, with one species A. lacustris (extinct). 



Mr. E. M. Cornwall gives an account of the birds found 

 breeding near Mackay, N. Queensland, in 1907 and 1908, 

 which includes important notes on the nests and eggs ; 

 Mr. T. P. Austin follows with the details of his voyage from 

 Pioneer River to various islands and the Great Barrier Reef; 

 and to the southward Mr. S. W. Jackson writes of a trip to 

 the upper Hunter River district of New South Wales, where 

 Gould collected in 1839-1840, while Mr. W. T. Armstrong 

 describes his visit to the Furneaux Group of islands in Bass 

 Strait. The latter's report on the decrease of Cereopsis 

 nov(B-liollandi(2 is impugned subsequently by Messrs. Smith 

 and Maclaine (see vol. viii. p. 48) . 



Besides these, there are papers by Mr. E. J. Banfield on 

 Chibia bracteata, Mr. C. F. Cole on Finches as foster-parents 

 to Cuckoos, Mr. H. W. Ford on Birds from Mareng in the 

 Bendigo district, and Miss J. A. Fletcher on those of the 

 Wilmot district in Tasmania. Minor articles and the usual 

 supplements help to make up the whole, but we must not omit 

 to mention among the uncoloured plates one of the first nest of 

 Ptilorhis paradisea found with a full clutch of two eggs, and 



