Recently published Ornithological Works. 125 



12. Le Sourf's Trip to Mallacoota. 



[A. Trip to MaUucoota. By D. Le Souef. Vict. Nat. xiii. p. 18 

 (1896).] 



A very interesting account of his trip on a bicyle from 

 Mflbournc to Mallacoota was read by Mr. Dudley Le Souef 

 before the Field Naturalists's Club of Vi(!toria in January 

 last^ and is now printed in the * Victorian Naturalist.' Field- 

 notes on birds occupy most of the discourse of this enthu- 

 siastic observer. On the Gippsland lakes Ducks, Swans, 

 atid Gallinules were seen in many thousands, and " they 

 could only be described by acres of tliem.^' At Malla- 

 coota Lyre-birds were numerous in the gullies, and a long 

 list of other species found breeding is given. 



13. Loomis on Calijornian Water-birds. 



[California Wator-birds. No. III. South Fnrullon Lslaiul in i\\\y. 

 By Leverett M. Luouiis. Extr. fr. I'roc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, vol. vi.] 



In the third of his series of papers on the water-birds of 

 the Californian coast, Mr. Loomis gives an account of the 

 feathered inhabitants of the Farallones Islands off' San Fran- 

 cisco, which he visited in July last. Here the sea-birds' eggs 

 are collected for sale in San Francisco to the amount (in 

 189(5) of 70 15 dozens — chiefly those of Vria troile californica. 

 Mr. Loomis gives a list, accompanied by good field-notes, of 

 the ten indigenous birds and four stragglers noted. Besides 

 the Murres, the Tufted Puffin {Lunda cirrhata), Gassings 

 Aidvlet {Vlychorhamphus aleuticus) , and the Pigeon-Guillemot 

 {Cepphus columbu) are abundant, and two Petrels were found 

 nesting — Oceanodroma kucorrhoa and O. homochrua. 



14. Lucas and Ridyway on the Procniatidai. 



[Ost(!ological and Pterylofrrapliical Characters of the I'rociiiatida). By 

 F. A. Lucas. Proc. U. 8. N. Mas. xviii. p. ^05.— Characters of a new 

 American Family of Passerine Birds. By Robert liidgway. I'roc. U. S. 

 N. Mu8. xviii. p. 44'J.] 



Mr. F. A. Lucas first pointed out the notable characters 

 of the skull of Procnias, which has hitlierto been usually 



