780 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



now been changed to the 'Canadian Field-Naturalist' to 

 reflect its widened sphere of influence. It will in future 

 be accepted not only as the organ of the Ottawa Society 

 but of other similar natural history societies throughout 

 the Dominion of Canada. 



The present number contains some account of the biids 

 observed in the northern part of Lake Winnipeg in 

 Manitoba by Prof. O^Donoghue and Mr. J. N. Gowanlock. 

 Here on a small island was found a breeding colony of 

 Caspian Terns, and an example of the Parasitic Jaeger 

 (or as it is generally called in England, Richardson's Skua) 

 was secured. Both these birds were previously unknown in 

 Manitoba. 



Mr. P. A. Taverner concludes his account of the birds of 

 Shoal Lake, Manitoba, where 211 species in all have been 

 observed. Tliere ;ire also other articles of interest in other 

 departments of Natural History contained in the present 

 number. 



The Emu. 



[The Eum. Official organ of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union. Vol. xviii. pts. 1-4. July 1918-April 1919.] 



The last volume of the 'Emu ' shows the continued pros- 

 perity of the R. A. 0. U., consisting as it does of over 300 

 pages and fifty plates, four of which are coloured. These, 

 which are reproduced from colour-photographs, represent 

 Erythrura trichoa macyillivrayi recently described from 

 northern Queensland; Amytornis striata Gould, of which a 

 good many subspecies have been recognized i)y Mr. Mathews, 

 but which Mr. Campbell, who writes the accompanying 

 letterpressj proposes to reduce to two. In the third part the 

 frontispiece is a coloured plate of the Letter-winged Kite 

 (Elanus scriptus), of which Mr. H. L. White has recently 

 secured a good series of skins and eggs for the "H. L.White" 

 collection in the National Museum at Melbourne. The 

 birds were (bund nesting on the Diamantina river in a remote 

 district of the interior of Queensland, and Mr. Jackson, 



