Recently published Ornithological Works. 279 



Count Salvador! enumerates 44) are from tropical America. 

 But it is the Introduction of 120 pages that differentiates 

 the final part of the Dictionary from its predecessors, and in 

 this will be found a mass of information on every branch of 

 Ornithology, put together in a way which evidences a 

 practised and skilful writer on a favourite subject. 



The objections to the alphabetical arrangement involved 

 in a Dictionary, we may say in conclusion, are much obviated 

 by the full and clearly-printed Index that concludes the 

 volume. 



50. North on the Nest of Petroeca leggii. 



[Note on a Nest of Petrceca legyii, Sharpe, the Scarlet-breasted Robin. 

 By Alfred J. North, F.L.S. Records Austral. Mus. ii. No. 6.] 



The author describes and figures the nest and three eggs 

 of the Scarlet-breasted Eobin {Petrceca leggi) of Australia, 

 from a specimen taken at Bayswater, Victoria, in November 

 1894. It is cup-shaped, very neatly made, and was placed 

 in a hollow stem of a mountain musk {Olearia argophylla) , 

 about six feet from the ground. The nest will form part of 

 the " Group Collection " in the Australian Museum, Sydney, 

 which illustrates the life-history of Australian birds. 



51. North on the Insectivorous Birds of New South Walts. 



[A List of the Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales. By Alfred 

 J. North, C.M.Z.S. Part I. 8vo. Sydney, 1896.] 



Mr. North proposes to catalogue the insect-eating birds 

 of New South Wales in order to show what species are 

 beneficial to agriculture and should receive protection. He 

 divides such birds into three groups: (1) those exclusively 

 insectivorous ; (2) those partially insectivorous ; (3) those 

 also partly frugivorous, and therefore more or less harmless. 

 The present portion of the catalogue treats of 63 species of 

 the first class. It is illustrated by 10 plates, mostly coloured, 

 rather rough in character, but sufficiently accurate for 

 practical purposes. 



