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Canterbury and Croydon, and seven years at Chats wood and Roseville. 

 The latter is beautifully timbered, with scrub and heath-lands in places, 

 intersected with creeks and ravines leading to Middle Harbour, and is 

 likely to remain a deli2;htful hunting ground for the ornithologist for 

 many years to come. The results of his labours have chiefly appeared in 

 his many contributions to the " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales," the " Records of the Australian Museum," and the 

 " Sydney Town and Country Journal " (the latter anonymous) ; to a less 

 extent in " The Victorian Naturalist," the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society " (London), " The Ibis," and kindred publications. Not forgetting 

 the "Descriptive Catalogue" previously referred to, among bis other more 

 important contributions to ornithological literature are the " Aves of the 

 Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia," published in 1896, and 

 a " List of Birds collected by the Calvert Exploring Expedition in Western 

 Australia,"* published in the " Proceedings of the Royal Society of South 

 Australia " for 1898, the field notes being supplied in both instances by 

 that indefatigable collector, Mr. G. A. Keartland. 



The work on which Mr. North is now engaged, and of which four Parts 

 and an Index forming Volume I. have been published by the Trustees of 

 the Australian Museum, is " Special Catalogue No. I." His life-histories 

 of Ii'hipidura albiscapa, Micrxca fascinans, GerygoneaJbifjularis, Malurus 

 lamberti, and Origma rubricata, show what can be done by daily 

 observation, under favourable auspices, and in the neighbourhood of a 

 large city. Especial attention has also been paid to the family of Bower- 

 birds {Ptilonorhynchidx) in the work, which is freely illustrated with 

 drawings of birds and photographs of nests, mostly taken in situ by the 

 author. 



Northbourne {Lord). 



A spe^nmen of Baillon's Crake (Forzana bailloni) from Deal. Pre- 

 sented. [1905, 10. 10, 1.] 



Northcott {Colonel H. P.). 



55 birds from Gamba^a in the Gold Coast Hinterland, West Africa. 

 Presented. [99. 9. 20, 1-55.] 



A list of Colonel Northcott's collection was published bv me in the 

 "Bulletin" of the British Ornithologists' Club for 1899 (p'p. vi., vii.). 

 Amongst other interesting species obtained by him was Lanius 

 gubernator, Hartl., previously only known from Equatorial Africa. In the 

 same number of the " Bulletin " some new species from Gambaga were 

 described by Dr. Hartert from Captain Giffard's collection {t.c, p. v. ; id., 

 Nov. Zool., VI., pp. 402-403). Colonel Northcott was at a moment's 

 notice despatched from England to join Lord Methnen's staff on the 

 Modder River, and was killed almost immediately on his arrival. 



(Cy. Sharpe, Bull. B.O.C., x., p. xxvi.) 



Nurse {Capt. C. G.). 



53 birds from Aden and Somali Land. Exchanged. [96. 2. 18, 1-53.] 

 Captain Nurse made some interesting collections, principally of 



Lepidoptera, but the Museum also received some birds from him, among 



them being our first specimens of the Somali-Land Sparrow (Passer 



castanopterus), 



* Proc. Roy. Soc. South Austr., vol. xxii., p. 125 (1898). 



