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woodlands. Another paragraph deals with the amount 

 of discrimination shown by various species in eating- 

 nauseous or semi-nauseous insects, and how much depends 

 in this case on the appetite and state of repletion of their 

 stomachs. Finally, from his experiments Mr. Swynnerton 

 is convinced of the fact that birds are able to com- 

 municate with each other as to whether insect prey is 

 palatable or otherwise. The whole paper is crammed 

 with observations and deductions in regard to all these 

 points and should be read by all who are interested in these 

 matters. 



Of the other papers, Mr. H. L. Hare writes on the 

 birds of the Philipstown district of Cape Colony. This 

 is one of the desert part« of the country bordering on 

 the Orange River, and many of the author's observations 

 are of considerable interest. Mr. E. C. Chubb of the 

 Durban Museum records the capture at Port Shepstone in 

 Natal of a young Common Tern ringed at Rossiten, the 

 Bird Protection Station in Prussia. He also is able to add 

 the Black-tailed Tropic- Bird {Phaeton lepturus) to the 

 South-African list, as an example of this species was shot 

 by Mr. Alder near Durban in 1912. 



Mr. John Wood writes a charming essay on the Curlew 

 in South Africa, where it is chiefly found between October 

 and February, though some individuals remain through the 

 other months of the year, but it has never been known to 

 breed. 



Altogether the editors are to be congratulated in having 

 been able to produce so interesting and full a number during 

 these times of stress and duiance. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



Mathews, G. M. The Birds of Australia. (Vol. v. pt. 3. London, 



1916.) 

 Thoeburn, a. Britisli Birds. (Vol. iii. London, 1916.) 

 WiTHERBY, H. F. The Moults of the British Passeres, with Notes on 



the Sequeuce of their Plumages. (' Brit. Birds,' ix. 1915-6.) 



