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first j)rize. In the true Finches and Bunting Class, the 

 second prize was avvarded to a specimen of our Rock Bunting 

 ( Fringillaria ta/iapig/). 



In the May numher Mr. E. Teschemaker records the 

 breeding o£ the Biack-tlu'oated See ?-eater {Sf^rinus angol- 

 ensis) in his aviary, and desciihes one clutch of eggs as 

 unspotted. He also ranks the quality of the song of this 

 little bird before that of the ('ape Canary. 



The September number contains an excellent article on 

 the Red-eyed Turtle Dove (herein called the Half-collared 

 Turtle Dove, Turdus semitorquatus) by T. H. Newman. 

 He has successfully reared these birds and finds them exceed- 

 ingly prolific, one pair having laid from June ta November 

 five pairs of eggs, from which six young were reared, 

 though not all by the same parents. 



The November number contains a lengthy paper on the 

 Family of the Oanes by Rev. H. D. Astley, and includes 

 the South Afi-ican Antlivopoides panidisea, carunvuhda, and 

 Balfarica regidora m. 



VI. ' The Einu : the Journal of th^e Australasian Orni- 

 thologists' Union,' July and October, 1907. 



These two numbers contain much readable matter, illus- 

 trated by some very excel'ent photographs,. half-tones,. notably 

 those of Egrets and Herons by Mr. A. H. Mattingley,. the 

 Secretary of the Union. The series showing young Herons 

 and Egrets starving to death, on account of their parents 

 having been shot for their plumes, are truly pitiful, and it 

 behoves the Union to try and remedy this regrettable state 

 of affairs. 



VII. ' 7'Ae Ariculturul Magazine,' November and December 



11107. 

 The first mentioned number contains an article on the. 

 Double-banded Courser (Rhinoptilus hicinctus), illustrated by 

 a coloured lithograph, by Capt. Boyd Horsbrugh, A.S.C. 

 He states therein that both he and his brother fountl clutches 

 of two eggs on various occasions. 



