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It would save a great deal of future trouble if the author would designate 

 a definite type specimen stating in whose collection it is to be found with 

 date of capture, etc. The description of new forms, like some other things, 

 if worth doing at all is worth doing well. 



Bird Notes. 1 September, 1914. 



A Sunbird Aviary. By W. T. Page. 



A Journey Across the Sierras of Southern California. By W. S. Baily. — 

 The author continues to identify the birds he sees in his own remarkable 

 way which has already been referred to in these columns and in ' The 

 Condor,' XVI, No. 5. The present article is continued in the October 

 number. In it we find Carpodacus purpureus breeding in the verandas of 

 buildings in California, while a "Hermit Thrush" (Hylocichla ustulatus 

 [sic]) and a remarkable Bank Swallow " Cotyle erythrogaster " will prove 

 valuable accessions to our western avifauna! 



Bird Notes. October, 1914. 



Parrot Finches. By W. T. Page — Color plates of the various species of 

 Erythrura. 



Aviculture in the Days of Ancient Rome. By Dr. L. Lovell Keays. 



Sir William Ingram's Birds of Paradise at Little Tobago. By Per O. 

 Millsum. — Report of the progress of this interesting experiment in accli- 

 matization. 



Wild Life. This beautifully illustrated monthly published at 55 Bank 

 Bldg., Kingsway, London, presents some of the most exquisite pictures of 

 wild life to be found anywhere. The series of photographs of Herons, 

 Kingfishes, etc., in recent issues are of particular interest to ornithologists. 



The Austral Avian Record. 2 Vol. II, No. 5. September 24, 1914. 



On the Genus name Mathewsia. By Tom Iredale. — Preoccupied by 

 Matthewsia Sanley, 1868, and Matheivsena proposed as a substitute, type 

 Ardea rubicunda Perry. 



Additions and Corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. By G. M . 

 Mathews. 



Geopelia shutridgei Grant, shown to be a hybrid. By Tom Carter. 



New Genera. By G. M Mathews. — Fourteen proposed mainly for 

 Australian groups. Alphagygis is proposed in place of Gygis preoccupied by 

 Gyges. 



Plumage Changes of Elseyornis melanops. By G. M. Mathews. 



Ornithologische Monatsschrift. 3 Vol. XXXIX, No. 7. July, 1914. 

 (In German). 



Sixth Annual Report of the Experimental and Model Station for Bird 

 Protection. By Hans Freiherr von Berlepsch. 



1 Edited for the Foreign Bird Society, by Wesley T. Page. Published by J. H. 

 Heustock, Ashbourne, England. (Monthly) 15s. per year. 



2 Edited by Gregory M. Mathews. Published (at intervals) by Witherby & Co., 

 326 High Holborn, London, W. C. Is. 6d. per part. 



3 Edited by Dr. Carl R. Hennicke for the German Society for Bird Protection. 

 Published by Max Kretschmann, Creutz'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Magdeburg. 

 (Monthly) 8 Marks per year. 



