146 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



"An Old Australian Bird-Lover" contributes an inter- 

 esting article on the methods adopted by Mr. J. E. Ward 

 to secure a collection of live Birds-of -Paradise in the interior 

 of New Guinea. We are glad to observe that the Common- 

 wealth Government have very strict regulations in regard to 

 this traffic, and no collectiug can be done without a license 

 and the payment of fees, while the numbers permitted to be 

 taken are distinctly stated in the license. Mr. Ward was 

 fortunate enough to secure six examples of the rare Blue 

 Bird-of -Paradise [Paradisornis 7'udolphi), which is only to 

 be obtained far away from the coast in the interior at an 

 elevation of 6000 feet. 



Two very remarkable photographs by Mr. G. E. Low are 

 among the illustrations of this volume; one is of a running 

 Apteryx taken in the Dublin Zoo, the other of nesting 

 Puffins on the Saltee Islands oflF the coast of Wexford, and 

 with this we must conclude our necessarily brief notice of a 

 capital volume. 



The Emu. 



[The Emu : Official organ of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union. Vol. xvii. Melbourne. July 1917-April 1918.] 



A comparatively new feature of the ' Era»i ' is the appear- 

 ance of a coloured plate as a frontispiece to each number. 

 In the present volume, Climacteris waitei, recently dis- 

 covered and described by Capt. S. A. White in central 

 Australia ; Ephthianwa crocea, a rare and little-known 

 Bush-Chat from north Queensland ; Platycercus elegans 

 fleurieuensis , a new form of the Rosella Parrot from 

 Eleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, described by 

 Mr. Ashby in the same volume ; and PacJiycephula penin- 

 sula, a remarkable Thickhead or W^histler from north 

 Queensland, are all in this way honoured. In the case 

 of the second and fourth, Mr. A. S. Campbell writes a few 

 words of explanation. 



Mr. Campbell also, in this instance assisted by Mr. H. G. 

 Barnard, has contributed an account of the birds ob- 

 served by them in the Rockingham Bay district of north 

 Queensland, a rich country ornithologically and containing 



