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known. ‘This effectually removes a stock argument of the plumage dealers 
to enlist fishermen against legislation prohibiting the importation of 
plumage. 
The Emu. XVI, Part 4. April, 1917. 
North Australian Birds. Observed by William McLennan. Commu- 
nicated by H. L. White— An annotated list of 198 species in which the 
nomenclatural tangle that confronts the Australian ornithologist is solved 
by using both the R. A. O. U. names and those of Mathews’ List for every 
species! 
Notes on a Collecting Trip in the Lower North of South Australia. By 
Edwin Ashby. 
Bird Life as Affected by Drought. By Charles Barnard. 
Observations from the Fern-tree Gully District (Vic.). By R. T. 
Littlejohns and S. A. Lawrence. 
Description of the Nest and Eggs of Melithreptus atricapillus mallee 
Math. By F. E. Howe. 
Obituary. Dr. E. P. Ramsay. 
The South Australian Ornithologist. III, Part 2. April, 1917. 
Birds of the North and North-West of Australia. By G. M. Mathews. 
(Continued. ) 
Further Notes upon the Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus). By S. A. 
White. 
Notes on Ashbyia lovensis and Amytornis merrotsii. By J. R. B. Love. 
Journal of the South African Ornithologists’ Union. XI, No. 2. 
December, 1916. 
Observations on the Birds of the District of Humansdorp, Cape Province. 
By B. A. Masterson. 
The Summer Migration of 1915, as Observed in the Eastern District of 
the Cape Province. By Rev. Robert Godfrey. 
Revue Francaise d’Ornithologie. IX, No. 94. February, 1917. 
(In French.) 
Bird Killing in Provence. By J. ?Hermite. (Continued in March and 
April.) 
The Trade in Birds at Dakar. By Dr. Millet-Horsin. (Continued in 
March.) ' 
Study of a collection of Birds from Matto Grosso. By A. Menegaux. 
(Continued in March and April.) 
Ardea. V, No. 3-4. December, 1916. (In Dutch.) 
The Hovering of Birds. By Dr. C. A. Crommelin. 
Remarks on the Secretary-bird. By F. E. Blaauw.— Photographs of 
the bird, nest and egg. 
Wintering of the Avocet in Zeeland. By G. J. Van Oort. 
The Nightingale in Captivity. By J. L. F. Meyere. 
At What Height.do Birds Migrate? By A. A. Van Pelt Lechner. 
Ardea. VI, No.1. April, 1917. 
Migration Records for Holland in 1916. By Dr. H. Ekama. 
