1919-] Recently published Or)iifJioIoffica/ Works. 147 



very interesting species ; some fine photograplis of nests 

 and eggs illustrate this article, while many protests are 

 made against some of" the new or newly discovered names 

 applied by Mathews to what Mr. Campbell no doubt 

 considers to be old friends, though in each case the 

 Mathewsian as well as the R.A.O.U. Check-list names 

 are given. 



Another important faunal paper, of which three instal- 

 ments appear in the present volume, is that of Dr. W. 

 Macgillivray, the President of the R.A.O.U. The first 

 portion is mainly occupied by an account of the wan- 

 derings of Mr. M'Lennan, who was commissioned by 

 Dr. Macgillivray in 1913 to collect for him in the northern 

 part of the Cape York Peninsula. In 1915 Dr. Mac- 

 gillivray himself joined Mr. M'Lennan, and the results 

 seem to have been very satisfactory as a considerable 

 booty was obtained. One of tiie special objects of the 

 exploration was to find out about some strange Parrots 

 reported to exist on the Pascoe river. These turned out to 

 be new representatives of genera hitherto unrecorded from 

 Australia — Geoffroyus personatus maclennani and Eclectus 

 pectoralis macgilUvrayi, and have already been reported on 

 in our pages. 



The question of the existence of two races of the Little 

 Penguin {Eudyptulu) on the Australian coasts has always 

 exercised Australian ornithologists, and Mr. Mathews 

 apparently has not yet spoken authoritatively on the subject. 

 Dr. Brooke Nicholls, with the object of throwing further 

 light on the problem, paid a visit to the Penguin rookery 

 on Phillip Island on the Victorian coast in March J917, and 

 his report is published in the January number. After an 

 historical introduction on the history of the Penguin from 

 the time of Vasco da Gama onwards, he gives tables of 

 measurements and descriptions of the colour of the bills 

 and feet of the Little Penguin, as well as a detailed account 

 of the rookeries, illustrated with many photographs. He 

 comes to the conclusion that all the birds on Phillip Island 

 must at any rate be referred to one species — Eudyvtula 

 minor novce-ho/landiee. 



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