512 Recently published Oniltholnyical Works. [Ibis, 



^. A. White on the Birds of Central Australia. 



[Results of the South Australian Museum Expedition to Strzelecki 

 and Cooper Creeks, September and October, 1916— & (Aves). By S. A. 

 "White. Trans, R. Soc. S. Austr. xli. 1917, pp. 441-466, pi. xxxi.] 



[In the Far North-east : A scientific expedition. By Capt. S. A. 

 White, M.B.O.D., R.A.O.U. ; pp. 1-144, many photos. Adelaide. 8vo.] 



Capt. White's last journey into the interior of Australia 

 was in August 1916. Accompanied by Mr. Waite, of the 

 Adelaide Museum, he travelled by train to Farina, about 

 350 miles north of Adelaide, whence he trekked with 

 horses, camels, and Afghans north-eastwards past Mount 

 Lyndhurst, Mount Hopeless, and Lake Cullibone to Inna- 

 mincka, near the New South Wales border on Cooper 

 Creek, where Burke the explorer perished in 1861. He 

 returned to the railway by a more northern line along the 

 Cooper Creek. As the Cooper is more often in flood than 

 any other creek in the central region, Capt. White hoped to 

 find bird-life abundant, but in this he was a good deal 

 disappointed, and birds were very scarce. 



A new Tree-creeper (Climacte)'is waitei) was, however, 

 obtained on the Cooper, and the nest and eggs of Ashbyia 

 lovensis were taken for the first time. In all, about 106 

 species of birds were collected, and the range of many of 

 these was considerably extended. 



The first title quoted is that of the scientific results of the 

 expedition, and contains a list of the species procured ; the 

 second title is that of a small volume containing a popular 

 account of the journey and of the incidents that occurred. 



Bird- Lore. 



[Bird-Lore. An illustrated bi-monthly magazine, devoted to the study 

 and protection of birds. Edited by Frank M. Chapman. Vol. xix. 

 Nos, 1-6 for 1917.] 



By far the best of all the popular bird magazines, ' Bird- 

 Lore ' continues to flourish under the able guidance of Mr. 

 F. M. Chapman, who, we learn from a paragraph on p. 215 

 of the present volume, has given up his work at the New 



