Recently published Ornithological Works. ^77 



110. North on the Birds of Central Australia. 



[Report ou the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central 

 Australia. Part II. — Zoology. Aves, by Alfred J. North. 4to. 

 Loudon and Melbourne, 189G.] 



The bird-skins obtained by Mr. G. A. Keartland in Central 

 Australia during the Horn Expedition have been examined 

 by Mr. Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., the Ornithologist of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, who reports that from an 

 ornithological point of view the results are highly satisfactory, 

 especially as the journey was made during a somewhat dry 

 season, and rapid travelling interfered with thorough investi- 

 gation. The specimens collected are referred to 78 species, 

 amongst which are five novelties already characterized in this 

 journal (see Ibis, 1895, p. 339). Mr. Keartland's field-notes 

 are appended to each species. Calamanthus campestris 

 isabellinus from Missionary Plain is described as a new sub- 

 species, and field-notes are added by Mr. Keartland on 

 22 species observed during the expedition, but of which 

 specimens were not brought back. Three coloured plates 

 contain figures of Spathopterus alexandree, Ptilotis keartlandi, 

 Rhipidura albicauda, Xerophiia nigricincta, and Climacteris 

 super ciliosa. Of the Alexandrine Parrakeet, we may remark, 

 there are now living examples of both sexes in the Zoological 

 Society's Parrot-house. 



111. North on the Nesting of some Australian Birds. 



[Notes on the Nesting of Calyptorhynchus banksi and Erytlirodryas 

 rosea. Jiy Alfred J. North. Victorian Naturalist, xii. p. 136 (1896).] 



Mr. North describes the eggs of the Banksian Black 

 Cockatoo from specimens obtained in Western Queensland, 

 where this bird lays in holes in big gum-trees along the 

 Darling river ; also the nesting of Erythrodnjas rosea, as 

 observed by Mr. Gabriel at Bayswater, Victoria, in December 

 1895. He gives a supplementary note on the nest of 

 Chlamydodera orientalis, in the Gulf district of Northern 

 Ouceusland. 



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