104 Recent Literature. Tee 
The following new birds are described: By Lord Rothschild, Micreca 
flavigaster laetissima (p. 4), Queensland. By Dr. Hartert, Corydon suma- 
tranus brunnescens (p. 4), Borneo; Diaptrornis semicinctus (p. 4), E. Congo 
Free State. By Mr. T. Carter, (p. 6); Calamanthus campestris hartogi, 
Sericornis maculatus hartogi, and Stipiturus malachurus hartogi all from 
Dirk Hartog Isl., W. Australia. 
British Birds. X, No. 5. October, 1916. 
Obituary of J. A. Harvie Brown. 
Some Breeding Habits of the Sparrow Hawk (concluded). By J. H. 
Owen. 
British Birds. X, No. 6. November, 1916. 
The Moults of the British Passeres with Notes on the Sequence of 
their Plumages. By H. F. Witherby (continued). 
Avicultural Magazine. VII, No. 11. September, 1916. 
Nesting Notes from the Zoological Gardens. By D. Seth-Smith.— 
Rhea, Tinamou, Manucode, ete. 
The Black Redstart and its Breeding Haunts. By H. D. Astley. 
Bird Song. By “ Birdlover.’”’— An excellent review of the nature and 
origin of song. 
Avicultural Magazine. VII, No. 12. October, 1916. 
Notes on the Red-winged Bush Shrike (Telephoneus australis minor). 
By V. G. L. van Someren. 
The Imitative Power of Birds. By A. G. Butler. 
Cuvier’s Podargus. By Graham Renshaw.— Habits in captivity. 
Bird Life on Yanko Creek, N.S. W. By C. Barrett. 
Bird Notes. VII, No. 4. April, 1916. 
Some Colony Birds. Reprint from ‘ Timehri,’ Jour. Roy. Agric. and 
Commercial Soc. of British Guiana.— Account of many British Guiana 
species, continued to the September number. 
Bird Notes. VII, No. 5. May, 1916. 
Bird Catching in India. By Douglas Dewar. 
Bird Notes. VII, No.6. June, 1916. 
Photograph of a hybrid quail, Callipepla squamata < Lophortyx cali- 
fornica. 
Journal of the South African Ornithologists’ Union. XI, No. 1. 
December, 1915. 
The Birds of Philipstown, Cape Provence with Notes on their Habits. 
By H. L. Hare. 
Ornithological Notes from Natal. By E. C. Chubb. 
The Curlew in South Africa. By John Wood. 
Remarks upon some Widely Distributed Family Traits. By A. A. Lane. 
Birds of the Kaffrarian Frontier. By F. A. O. Pym. 
Birds in Relation to their Prey. By C. F. M. Swynnerton.— Feeding 
Actions of Wood Hoopoes, Small Hornbill and a Babbler. 
The South Australian Ornithologist. II, Pt. 8. October, 1916. 
Birds of the North and Northwest of Australia (No. 7). By G. M. 
Mathews. 
