1919] Recently puhl I shed Ornitholo^icnl IVorks. 783 



Another reniarkuble l)ird described and fiiiuied in a 

 coloured plate in the second numl)er of the magazine is 

 a Gull, obtained some years ago by M. F. Massange on 

 the Belgian coast near Blankenberghe. It is identified by 

 M. de Coutreras as an example of Larus fuliginosus Gould, 

 a species believed to be confined to the Galapagos Islands 

 and never, so far as we are aware, noticed in the Atlantic or 

 in the Old Worhl. This specimen is now preserved in the 

 Brussels Museum, and we believe that a " second opinion " 

 on the identification should be taken before finally accepting 

 the occurrence of a species in Europe so far removed f re ni 

 its known habitat. 



Other articles in the second number by M. G. van Havre 

 deal with the occurrence of the Black-bellied Dijiper 

 (Cinclus c. cinclus) in Belgium, and of a review of events 

 of ornithological interest in Belgium during the five years 

 of war, and of the effects of the war and the German 

 occupation on bird-life. 



South Australian Ornithologist. 



[The South Australian Ornithologist. A Ma<^'azine of Ornithology. 

 Vol. iii. for 1917 & 1918 ; 8 parts.] 



The ornithologists of South Australia continue the quar- 

 terly issue of their magazine with great regularity. It is 

 chiefly concerned with observations and field-notes on the 

 birds of South Australia, and is therefore mainly of local 

 interest. 



The excellent plan of giving in each number a full 

 de^ciiption, with an account of habits and distribution, of 

 a single selected member of the South Australian avifauna 

 is continued, but it will we fear take a good many years 

 before the series is complete. Capt. S. A. White continues 

 his account of the life of his father Mr. Samuel White, 

 a pioneer of ornithological exploration in many parts of 

 Australia and Papuasia, the friend and correspondent of 

 Gould. Mr. White died at Sydney in 1880, soon after his 

 return from an adventurous voyage to the Arru Islands in 

 search of the Greater Bird of Paradise, and the chapters 



