290 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



to protect its benefactors and to give the benefit of the 

 doubt in some less certain cases. 



In the present Report the subject is considered as it 

 affects (1) the Forester, (2) the Fruit-grower, (3) the 

 Farmer, and (4) the Citizen generally: statistics of the 

 food-habits of many birds are given, shewing their value in 

 exterminating noxious creatures and in spreading useful 

 seeds ; while suggestions are made for the more strict 

 enforcement of the laws, the licensing of cats, and the 

 suitable education of children in the love of birds. 



A very strong case is made out for the Birds in the course 

 of the argument. A list of other papers on this subject to 

 which reference may be made is added. There are twelve 

 coloured plates. 



38. < The Emu. 3 



[The Emu. A Quarterly Magazine to popularise the Study and 

 Protection of Native Birds. Official Organ of the Australasian Ornitho- 

 logists' Union. Vol. iii. pt. 2, 1903. Price 4s.] 



No specially striking contributions are to be found in 

 this part of our contemporary, though Mr. F. M. Littler 

 continues his observations on birds peculiar to Tasmania, 

 Miss J. A. Fletcher her notes from Wilmot in the same 

 island, and Mr. T. Carter his list of birds occurring in the 

 North-West Cape Region, with further remarks on Ere* 

 miornis carteri and Ptilotis carter'/. Mr. A. W. Milligan 

 describes as new species Gymnorhina longirostris, from the 

 Cane and Ashburton Rivers, N.W.A., and Acanthiza pallida, 

 from Murchison, W.A., furnishing, moreover, notes on Gym- 

 norhina dors alls and the nests and eggs of Acanthiza robusti- 

 rostris, A. tenitirostris, and A. vropyyialis. Mr. H. E. Hill 

 writes on the Birds of Brookton, W.A. ; while in " Stray 

 Feathers" we notice records of bones of the Emu from King 

 Island and an egg of the same bird taken forty years ago 

 in Tasmania, further details of close seasons in Australia, 

 and an account of the nest and eggs of Xerophifa castanei- 

 ventris. The plates (v.-vii.) contain figures of the heads 

 of Gymnorhina longirostris and G. tibicen ; of Strix novdP- 



