54 From Magazines, &c, [i?f "juiy 



while the stands containing the Verreaux labels have been marked 

 to correspond with the specimens. 



In the case of each species, one specimen has been selected as 

 the type and so marked. Usually this selection was easily made, 

 because the bird described by Gould was readily identified by 

 locality, sex, measurements, &c. In instances where no individual 

 bird was mentioned in the original description, the selection has 

 necessarily been arbitrary, but it sounds somewhat pedantic to 

 state " and is final.'" Although most of Gould's Australian types 

 are in the Philadelphia Academy, it should be recollected that some 

 species were described from material never in his possession. A 

 few other types were never sent over, better specimens having 

 seemingly been substituted. Again, types of species described after 

 the date of the Wilson purchase are mostly to be found in the 

 British Museum, which secured Gould's later Australian material. 



It would appear that Gould has introduced 427 names into 

 Australian ornithological literature, of which number it is stated 

 85 are synonyms, leaving a balance of 342 species and sub-species 

 for which the great author is responsible. 



Review. 



["Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania." 

 By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., &c., Ornithologist to the Australian Museum.] 



In continuation of the publication of this work, parts i. and ii. of 

 vol. iv. have been issued. 



Part i. contains the Families Ihididce and Plataleidcc of the Order 

 Platalece ; the Famihes Ardeidcs and Ciconiidcs, belonging to the 

 Order Herodiones ; and the Sub-Families Cygnince, AnseranatincB, 

 PlectropterincB, Cereopsince, ChenonettincB, Anatincs, FiiligiilincB, 

 and Erismaturince of the Family Anatidce, which comprise the 

 representatives of the Order ChenomorphcB in Australia. 



Part ii. contains the Austrahan representatives of the Orders 

 ColumhcB, GallincB, Hemipodii, and the Sub -order Pediononii. As 

 in the previous parts, the illustrations of birds are reproduced from 

 drawings made by the late Mr. Neville Cayley. The figures of eggs, 

 which are of the natural size, were reproduced by the heliotype 

 process, at the Government Printing Office, from photographs of 

 the specimens taken under the direction of the Government 

 Printer and the supervision of Mr. A. Dyer, Miss A. E. Potter 

 being responsible for hand-colouring the plate of eggs in the 

 coloured copies. 



These parts uphold the general excellence of the preceding 

 issues of the work, especially the illustrations from line and half- 

 tone blocks, while an amount of valuable and original information 

 is found in the letter-press. 



