IJ2 Publications Received. 



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 [ znd Oct. 



Publications Received during July, August, 

 September, 1916. 



D. Le Souef. C.M.Z.S., Hon. Librarian. R.A.O.U. 

 Australian Naturalist, vol. iii., part 2. 

 My System with Pigeons, by Leslie Gaze. 



The principal idea of this helpful publication is to foster the 

 squab industry, and details as to breeding and rearing Pigeons 

 are given, as well as how to treat their various ailments. It has 

 some clear illustrations, and will be a help to those who keep these 

 interesting birds. 



Royal Society of Queensland, vol. xxvii., parts i and 2. 

 Royal Society of Tasmania, 1915. 

 So^tth Australian Ornithologist, vol. ii., part 7, 



Contains, among other notes, the description of a new sub- 

 species of Scrub-Wren [Sericornis longirostris wyldii) by Capt. 

 S. A. White. Also a list of birds, with descriptions, from North 

 and North- Western Australia, by G. M. Mathews, and some 

 further observations on the Cormorant and bird temperatures by 

 Dr. A. M. Morgan. 

 The Victorian Naturalist, vol. xxxiii., parts 2, 3, 4. 



Part 3 contains a short article on "The Birds of Fraser Island, 

 Gippsland Lakes," by G. A. Keartland. 

 The Hawkeshury Agricultural College fournal, vol. xiii., parts 2, 



3, 4. 5- 

 Victorian Education Gazette and Teachers Aid, vol. xvi., Nos. 6, 

 7, 8. 



We are glad to see the stand the Education Department is taking 

 against the wilful destruction of bird-life, and how it is seeking 

 to instruct the scholars in the value of birds to the community, 

 especially farmers and fruit-growers. 

 In the Far North-West, by Capt. S. A. White. 



An interesting and well-illustrated account of an expedition to 

 the Musgrave and Edward Ranges, in which many notes are given 

 of birds met with. The author is to be congratulated on the 

 careful way in which he has described the various natural history 

 facts that came under his notice. 

 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, vol. v. 



This volume is, as usual, full of interesting articles, and well 

 illustrated. 

 The Austral Avian Record, vol. iii., No. 3, by G. M. Mathews. 



Contains 76 new sub-species, as well as many changes in his 

 " List of the Birds of Australia." If the author continues making 

 new sub-species at the present rate, and with so little difference, 

 it is difficult to realize the number he will run into before he has 

 finished. As usual, no dimensions are given to guide the perplexed 

 ornithologist. 



