J9ia I Recent Literature. 303 



Mellor, From Lake Torrens; Acanthiza pygmea ' subsp. nov.' by A. W. 

 Milligan, from the Mallee district of Victoria. Of only one of these six new 

 forms is a type specimen mentioned. Even if trinomials are tabooed, we 

 fail to Bee why our Australian confreres should not follow the modern 

 custom o!" designating definite type specimens for each new form described. 

 If this is m>t done it will occasibn a great deal of trouble later on especially 

 when we consider how rapidly new birds are being discovered. 



Field Notes on thr Emu Wren (Stipiturus malaehurus). By Miss J. A. 

 Fletcher. 



Occurrence of Cisticola in Tasmania. By Miss -I. A. Fletcher. 



Notes on thr Cassowary [Caauarius australis). By II. L. White. 

 — A Valuable series of field note-; with excellenl half-tone- of the aesl and 



habitat . 



Field < >rnithology in South Australia. By Capt. S. A. White. 



Birds of port Germain, South Australia. By J. W. Mellor. 



In • Stray Feathers,' among various short notes, is a description by A. J. 

 Campbell of a new bird, Eopsaltria coomooboolaroo, from the Dawson River 

 district of Queensland. 



At the close of the number is a Note on Epthianura lovensis Ashly. 

 By Gregory M. Mathews with a colored frontispiece plate of this recently 

 described bird. The author in the course of his remarks proposes to divide 

 the genus Epthianura into four genera, of which Parepthianura for E. 

 tricolor, and Aurepthianura iov E. aurifrons and E. tricolor, are proposed as 

 new. 



The Austral Avian Record. Vol. I, No. ."». December 24, 1912. 



Fourteen new subspecies of Australian birds and fifty-one new genera 

 are proposed by Mr. Mathews. He also discusses the relationship of the 

 avifauna of Lord Howe Island, regarding it as more closely related to 

 New Caledonia than to New Zealand as had been recently claimed by 

 \V. H. B. Oliver; and contributes two short notes on a new Snipe for 

 Australia and the use of the name Coturnix ypsilophorus for C.dustralis. 



Prof. L. Brasil and Tom Iredale discuss the generic names Antigone and 

 Miilliiivsia. 



Bobin Kemp describes three new subspecies of New Zealand Birds. 



The Austral Avian Record. Vol. I, No. 6-7. February 28, 1013. 



A Lisl of the species of Australian Birds described by John Gould with 

 t he Location of the Type Specimens. By Witmer Stone, in conjunction with 

 Gregory M. Mathews —This paper occupies the entire double number. 

 It includes a brief history of the Gould Collection and aims to designate 

 an individual type specimen for every new species described by Gould. 

 I'lie collection being at Philadelphia is inaccessible to the Australian Orni- 

 t bologists and this catalogue will place at their disposal the more important 

 data regarding the type specimens. 



Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie. Vol. IV, No. 44. Decembei 7, 

 1912. 

 European Birds of the Genus ('vallecula. By Dr. A. Dubois — Recog- 

 five form.-. 



