78.2 Recant I ij published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



oil Pilliga Scrub in New South Wales, and Mr. F. L. 

 Whitlock on the birds of the Dampier archipelago on the 

 iiortli-west coast of Western Australia. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell's contributions to the present volume 

 are noticed separately. 



Le Gerfaut. 



[Le Gerfaut. Revue beige d'Ornithologie. Publiee sous la direction 

 de M. Marcel de Coutreras. Bruxelles. 5P-'d° Aiinees. Fasc. i. et ii. 

 1919.] 



' Le Gerfaut' (the Gyrfalcon) was established in Belgium 

 about three years before the outbreak of the war and was 

 published as the official organ of several ornithological 

 societies then existing in Belgium. A notice of it appeared 

 in 'The Ibis' for 1914 (p. 345). Under the German 

 occupation it ceased publication. It has now been revived 

 under its former editor, M. Marcel de Coutreras, though it 

 no longer has any official connection with the Belgian orni- 

 thological societies. Two numbers have already appeared, 

 ami we must congratulate the editor and his supporters on 

 their enterprise and devotion to our favourite study. 



The first number opens with a notice of M. A. Sacre^ to 

 whom Belgium owes a great debt for his promotion of 

 ornithology. He died in July 1917 at Brussels at the age 

 ()f6l), and was the practical founder of ' Le Gerfaut.' His 

 collections of nests and eggs of Belgian birds have been 

 added to the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels. 

 An article by M. G. van Havre deals with Buteo buteo 

 zimmermannce, an example of which was taken at Wyneghem 

 near Bruges so long ago as 1861 by the father of the present 

 author, but has only recently been recognized as referable 

 to this recently described form. Two examples were also 

 obtained at Delden in Holland in 1902 and 190o, and are 

 in the collection of Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg. Tiie 

 status of the Buzzards of Europe and their inter-relationship 

 do not appear to be yet by any means satisfactorily settled, 

 and we believe that more material must be studied before 

 any final decision cau be arrived at. 



