Recently published OrnUhologkal Works. 361 



There are scattered throngli the numbers several local bird- 

 lists with field-notes, such as those of Kallioota by Mr. A. 

 M. Morgan, of Rosworthy College by Mr. H. E. Lapper, 

 and of Stoneyfell by Mr. R. Crornpton, all places in South 

 Australia ; while Mr. E. Asby writes on the birds of Mount 

 Dandenong in Victoria, where the Lyre-bird can still be 

 seen, and Mr. G. M. Mathews contributes a series of notes 

 made by the late Capt. Bowyer-Bower in the Cairns district 

 of Queensland in 1884-.5. Capt. Bowyer-Bower's collections 

 are now partly in the British Museum and partly in the 

 possession of Mr. Mathews. 



Mr. Mathews also sends some descriptions of new forms 

 (vol. i. no. 2, p. 12). We must protest against his descrip- 

 tion of a new genus, Macgillivrayornis, for a new species, 

 M. claudi. There is absolutely no clue to enable the reader 

 to find out what family this new genus should be referred 

 to; from the description it might be anything. The other 

 forms described by him, all from northern Queensland, are 

 Tyto galei^ jEgithina temporalis macgillivrayi, and Neochmia 

 phaeton albiventer. 



Mr. S. A. White has some interesting reminiscences of 

 his father, Mr, Samuel White — a pioneer, explorer, and 

 early collector — who came to South Australia in 1842. 

 He was a friend and correspondent of Gould's and sent 

 him many new and rare birds for which Gould perhaps 

 hardly gave him sufficient credit. Mr. White also sends a 

 description of a new species, Acanthiza mariana, from the 

 dry north-western part of South Australia, and an account 

 of his examination of the pellets of an Australian Barn-Owl 

 [Flammea flammea delicatula), from the examination of which 

 it appears that this Owl lives largely on the Sparrow Passer 

 domesticus. 



Yearbook of the Dutch Bird Club. 



[Club van Nederlandsclie Vogelkundigen. Jaarbericlit, no. Z). 

 Deventer (Kluwer), 1915.] 



In addition to the reports of the meetings, which appa- 

 rently take place five or six times a year, this Yearbook 



