330 Additions to the Library. - [,,f'Xrrii 



fittingly called the "Grand Old Man" of North American natural 

 history, and will be long remembered as the man who laid the 

 fomidations of the famous United States National Museum. 

 " A Practical Handbook of British Birds,'" by H. F. Witherby, 



Parts 4, 5. Witherby and Co., London. 

 " Some Notes on the Birds of Southern Palawan and Adjacent 



Islands." Reprint of contributions by John T. Zimmer 



to the Philippine Journal of Science. 



Austral Avian Record, vol. iii., No. 7. 



This part is taken up with short biographical sketches of three 

 of our best-known Australian ornithologists -- Samuel Albert 

 White, Thomas Carter, and William David Kerr Macgillivray — 

 each sketch being accompanied by an excellent portrait. 



Periodicals Received in Exch.\nge. 



Aiistralia)i Naturalist, vol. iv., Nos. 8, 9. 



No. 9 contains a contribution by E. Oliver Edwards on " Birds 

 seen at Goorianawa, Central Western District, New South Wales." 

 Australian Zoologist, The, vol. i., part 7. 



Contains two splendid photos, of the Spine-tailed Swift {('hcc- 

 tura caudacuta).' 



.ink, The, vol. xx.\:vi., No, 4. 



Avicultural Magazine, third series, Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 



No. 9 contains an article on " The Emeu," by J. K. Butler, 

 M.D. The doctor states that the word Emeu originally came 

 from the Portugese word Emea, meaning a Crane. The article 

 is an interesting one, and is illustrated with a photo, of three 

 birds taken in his paddock at Cannock, where a pair of ■them 

 bred. 



Bird Lure, vol. x.xi., parts 4, 5, U. 

 British Birds, vol. xiii., Nos. j, 4, 5^ 0, 7. 

 Condor, vol. xxi.. No. 4. 



Haivkcsbury Agricultural Journal, \-ol. x\-i., parts 10, 11, 12 ; 



vol. xvii., part i. 

 Ibis, The, eleventh series, vol. i.. No. 4. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 



vol. Ixx., part 3 : vol. Ixxi., part 3. 

 Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. viii., Nos. 



5, 6, 7 ; and Index to vol. vii. 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, \o\. xliv., 



2, 3' 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of ]'ictoria, xxxii., new series, 



part I. 

 Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie, Nos. 121, 122, 123. 



