19 1 8.] Recently published Ornithological Works. 325 



a species confined to the nortlieiu heiuispliere, was met with 

 at Botany Island by Capt. Cook^ as evidenced by one of tlie 

 Watling drawings. This Botany Island has been supposed 

 by botli Sharpe and Mathews to be an island in Botany Bay 

 New South Wales. In a note in the fifth number of this 

 journal M. Brasil points out that the Hotany Island is 

 undoubtedly a small islet off the southern coast of New 

 Caledonia where Capt. Cook landed from the ' Resolution/ 

 and where one of his officers shot a bird called by Capt. 

 Cook Fnlco haliaetus. The bird was undoubtedly an Osprey, 

 one of the forms of Panclion haliaetus and not the Sea- 

 Eagle. 



Several portions of the " A.dditions and Corrections to the 

 1913 List of Australian Birds '•' are scattered through the 

 five numbers here noticed. These contain descriptions, or 

 perhaps one might say indications, of many new genera and 

 subspecies; finally, two good coloured jdates o^ Nesomalarus 

 leucojjterus and Diaphorillas carteri illustrate an article on 

 these two long-lost birds recently re-discovered by Mr. Tom 

 Carter on Dirk Hartog Island in Western Australia (see 

 also Ibis, 1917, pp. 593, 591)) . 



Bird Notes. 



[Bh'd Notes. The Journal of the Foreign Bird Club. Edited by 

 Wesley T. Page. Vol. viii. uos. 1-12. Jan.-Dec. 1917.] 



The last volume of 'Bird Notes/ chiefly through the 

 energy of the editor, Mr. Wesley Page, seems to retain 

 the full vigour of pre-war days, though we notice the 

 absence of any coloured plates in the present issue. This 

 is compensated to a great extent by, may we say, the dis- 

 covery of a new bird-artist, Mrs. B. M. Cooke, who has 

 illustrated several of the articles with some very charming 

 and characteristic pictures, which are reproduced in black 

 and white. Mrs. Cooke, wlio is a member of the Bird 

 Club and no doubt herself an aviculturist, has provided 

 these drawings without charge to the magazine. We are 

 specially fascinated by her four sketches of Cuvier^s 



