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the list, but there are, no doubt, many others of equal 

 importance. 



Finally, four beautifully drawn and excellently coloured 

 plates contain figures of 50 of the principal novelties of the 

 Nehrkorn Collection. We are sure that all our oological 

 friends will be cliarmed with this well-planned and well- 

 executed piece of work. 



80. North on the Nesting of Australian Birds. 



[Descriptions of the Nests and Eggs of Four Species of Australian 

 Birds. By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1898, p. 380.] 



Mr. Nortli continues liis notes on the nests and eg-gs of 

 Australian Birds, and now describes those of Ejjhthia?mra 

 crocea, Ptilotis macleayana^ and Myzomela erythrocephala 

 from Northern Australia, and the eggs of Lophophaps ferru- 

 ginea obtained by the Calvert Expedition near Fitzroy River, 

 North-west Australia. 



81. North and Keartland on the Birds collected by the 

 Calvert Expedition. 



[List of Birds collected by the Calvert Exploring Expedition in 

 Western Australia. By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S. With Field-notes 

 by G. A. Keartland, Naturalist to the Expedition. Trans. R. Soc. 

 S. Australia, 1898, p. 125.] 



]Vrr. North gives us an account of the collection made by 



]Mr. Keartland, chiefly at a camp situated at the junction of 



the Fitzroy and IVEargaret rivers, about 45 miles from 



Derby in North-western Australia, during the Calvert 



Expedition, and deposited in the South-Australian IMuseum. 



It consists of 167 specimens, belonging to 59 species, besides 



nests and eggs. The field-notes of the collector are added 



under the head of each species. Among the chief rarities 



are specimens of Spathopterus ahxandrce and Ptilotis keart- 



landi. Field-notes on 133 other species, of which specimens 



were observed by IVir. Keartland but not brought back, are 



added. 



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