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Review. 



[" Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the Interior of Australia, carried 

 out by Captain S. A. White, M.B.O.U., from July to October, 1913."] 



Captain S. A. White, M.B.O.U., president of the R.A.O.U., is to 

 be heartily congratulated on the publication in the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. xxxviii., 1914, of the 

 scientific results of the adventuresome camel trip made by his 

 devoted wife and himself into the •' Dead Heart of Austraha." 



Captain White has supplied the interesting narrative of the 

 expedition and the valuable ornithological notes. Fourteen other 

 scientists, whose names are well known in their several fields of 

 science, report on the general zoological, botanical, and geological 

 collections. Important results were achieved, and many species 

 and sub-species new to science were obtained. A fine series of 

 beautiful photographs illustrates some unique features of that 

 remarkable region. 



Painstaking, thorough, and scientific, this successful work 

 enhances Captain White's reputation as one of Australasia's lead- 

 ing field ornithologists. 



Stray Feathers. 



Bird-Observing in Uganda. — Many members of the R.A.O.U. 



know Mr. C. F. Belcher personally, and his name must be familiar 

 to all. Mr. Belcher was formerly co-editor of The Emu, and he 

 has done much for the Union. He now holds a high official 

 position in Uganda, and in a letter from Entebbe, dated 6th May, 

 1915, to Mr. H. A. Purnell, R.A.O.U., of Geelong, Vic, gives 

 some interesting notes on the bird hfe of that part of the Empire. 



" The Governor has a magnificent collection (of eggs), and I 

 have learned all I know of Uganda birds from him," writes Mr. 

 Belcher. "This is really a marvellous bird country, because, if 

 you travel 10 or 20 miles you seem to run into quite a fresh 

 lot. And then there are some birds breeding at any time of the 

 year you can think of, though just now, in the big rains, is the 

 time when most are laying, and there is a second pretty extensive 

 laying about November, in the small rains. Curiously enough, 

 though I must by now have noted well over 200 species in 

 Entebbe, I have only the eggs of twenty. I will try and list them 

 from memory : — Cormorants (3), Heron (i). Kingfisher (i), Coly 

 (I), Swallows (4), Weavers (8), Plover (i). Shrike (i), Bulbul (i), 

 Zosterops (i), Sun-Birds (3), Warblers (2), Lark (i), Weaver-Finches 

 (3). But, of course, these were all taken practically in the town- 

 ship, most of them in streets and gardens. The Cormorants I 

 got from an island about a mile away, which H.E. and I have 

 visited several times — the most recent being yesterday evening. 

 Rather, I should say it is a group of islets, and the Heron and 



