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the latter, but it is as impossible to change such names today as it would 

 be to change the names of several familiar objects of every-day use which, 

 though quite different, are called by the same names on the two sides of 

 the Atlantic. Curiously enough the word ' Flycatcher ' passes without 

 protest in the same review for the American tyrants, which though per- 

 fectly correct as the universal American term for the birds, is far worse 

 than the case of ' Oriole,' since the two groups of ' Orioles ' belong to the 

 same suborder, while the two styles of ' Flycatcher ' do not. 



Avicultural Magazine. IX, No. 11. September, 1918. 



How Birds of Paradise are Caught. 



Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise. By Graham Renshaw. — Effect of 

 captivity on coloration. 



Avicultural Magazine. IX, No. 12. October, 1918. 



Chinese Cage Birds. By K. H. Jones. 



Kaleege and other Pheasants. By Frank Finn. 



Ave Atque Vale: Villers-Bretonneaux — The total destruction of Lieut. 

 Delacour's magnificent aviary in the fighting in France. There were 360 

 birds of 141 species contained in his collection. 



The Emu. XVIII, Part I. July, 1918. 



Australian Green-backed Finch {Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi) . 

 By J. A. Kershaw. With colored plate. 



Notes on Some Additions to the H. L. White Collection. By A. J. 

 Campbell. 



Birds of Lake Victoria and the Murray River for 100 Miles Down 

 Stream. By Capt. S. A. White. — A very interesting account with a fully 

 annotated list. 



The Skeleton of the " Kea Parrot " of New Zealand (Nestor notabilis). 

 By R. W. Shufeldt (see antea p. 131). 



Queensland Notes. By D. LeSouef. — Another interesting narrative. 



A Study of Australian Specimens of the Little Penguin (Eudyptula 

 minor, Forster). By W. B. Alexander and Dr. Brooke Nicholls. — A 

 careful study of sixty individuals which seems to show that the Australian 

 birds are all referable to one race, Eudyptila minor novcehollandice, instead 

 of three as has been claimed by Mathews. 



Description of a New Subspecies of Hylacola pyrrhopygia (Vig. & Horsf.). 

 By F. E. Howe. H. p. magna (p. 59), Cobbora, N. S. W. 



Nesting Notes from Moree. By F. C. Morse. — A diary of observations 

 from September, 1917, to May 1918. 



The Emu. XVIII, Part II. October, 1918. 



Striated Grass Wren (Amytornis striata, Gould). With colored plate of 

 mounted birds. 



What are Australian Petrels? By Gregory M. Mathews. — Finds no 

 recent records of thirteen of the species accredited to Australia by Gould. 

 The editors question the advisability of rejecting the species from the 

 Australian List on this account as they think that the birds' ranges may have 



