1919-] Hecenliij ptibiislied Ornitholncjical Works. 781 



who was sent by Mr, White to obtain the ejigs and skins, 

 made a most successfnl expedition to this out-of-tlie-way 

 spot by motor-car and gives an interesting acconnt of his 

 own adventnres and o£ the habits of the Kites, wliich nest in 

 small companies in Eucalyptus trees bordering the creeks. 



Dr. Shufeldt contributes a long account, illustrated by 

 seven plates from photographs taken by himself, of the 

 osteology of Nesior, the Kea Parrot of New Zealand. He is 

 of opinion from his studies of the skeleton, that the creation 

 of a special family, Nestoridse, for this peculiar type is well 

 justified by osteological characters as well as by the structui'c 

 of the soft parts, which have chiefly been relied on i)y former 

 investigators. 



Mr. W. 13. Alexander and Dr. B. Nicholls have carefully 

 gone into the sul)ject of the racial forms of the Little Penguin 

 [Eudyptula minor) in Atistralia. Mr. Mathews and otheis 

 liave recognized three u\' these races. An examination of a 

 large series of birds of different ages and stages of ])lumage 

 from different localities Ijring the authors to the conclusion 

 that there is only one Australian race, which should be 

 called Eud/i/ptida minor novahollandice. 



In an article l)y Mr. Gr. M. Mathews it is pointed out that 

 a considerable number of the Petrels included by him in his 

 ' Birds of Australia^ are so recorded on insufficient evidence, 

 often resting on vague statements by Gould or sometimes on 

 wrongly identified material, or material of doubtful origin. 

 A list of these ca-^cs is given in the hope that more attention 

 will be paid to this group by Australian observers. 



Of new forms described we only notice three — Hylacola 

 pyrrliopyyia mayna Howe from the interior of New South 

 Wales, Maluriis cyanotus d'lamantina H. L. White from 

 western Queensland, and Acanthiza nana dawsoniana H. L. 

 White from central Queensland, 



Field-notes and lists of species observed in all parts of 

 Australia are numerous : among them, Miss Fletcher writes 

 on Tasmania, Capt. S. A. White on the Murray river and on 

 the Nullabor plains of South Australia, Mr. J. B. Clelland 



