G12 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



p. 118) include an account of the Melbourne Congress of 

 the Union, with an address by the President (Col. W. V. 

 Lcgge) on the advance of Ornithology in Australia — the 

 meeting having been followed by a " camp-out " excursion 

 to the Mutton Bird " rookeries " on Phillip Island in Bass 

 Strait — and a Report for 1901-2, mainly concerned with the 

 efforts of the Council to induce the Governments of the 

 various States to extend the protection afforded to native 

 birds. 



Apart from articles chiefly of local interest, Mr. D. le 

 Souef continues his important paper on birds' eggs from the 

 Port Darwin district, in which he describes those of Pseudo- 

 gerygone brunneipectus , P. l&vigastra, P. chloronota, and 

 Zosterops gulliveri for the first time, and draws attention to 

 the extraordinary extent of the breeding-season, which, as is 

 truly said (p. 174), seems in North Queensland to last through- 

 out the whole year. The same author follows with a dis- 

 cussion of the change of colour of plumage without moult in 

 certain birds; but it should be noticed that he does not give 

 instances of a single feather changing colour, but only of 

 different feathers gradually producing lighter tints in the 

 progress of a bird to maturity. Mr. R. Hall writes on 

 " Colour Reversion in Kingfishers' Eggs," and Mr. A. J. 

 Campbell on the Protection of Native Birds. 



Four, or possibly five, new species are described, viz. : — 

 Melithreptus leucogenys and Calamanthus montanellus from 

 the Stirling Ranges, W.A. ; Megalurus striutus from Lake 

 Yanchep, W.A. ; Acanthiza magniroslris and A. rujifrons (?) 

 from King Island, Bass Strait. 



From the shorter notices we learn that the male Lyre-bird 

 incubates, that young Harriers {Circus gouldi) of very 

 different ages have been found in the same nest, and that 

 the Tooth-billed Bower-bird is a particularly clever mimic. 



In a Review of the Catalogue of Birds' Eggs in the British 

 Museum a doubt is raised as to the identification of the egg 

 of the Australian Dotterel there figured. 



As the Editors of ' The Ibis ' so fully recognise the good 

 work that is being done by Australian Ornithologists, 



