4GG Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the Committee observe, one main point has been abundantly 

 proved, namely that species which are resident as a whole 

 are decidedly migratory as regards individuals. The author's 

 summaries have, moreover, been an excellent test of the 

 reliability of the " Digest of Observations," as he himself 

 tells us. 



71. ' The Emu. 3 



[The Emu. A Quarterly Magazine to popularize the Study and Pro- 

 tection of Native Birds. Official Organ of the Australasian Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union. Melbourne. Vol. hi. pt. 3. Price 4s, per part,] 



A moiety of this part of 'The Emu' consists of an account 

 of the Annual Congress of the Union in 1903, held for the 

 fi rst time in Tasmania, at the town of Hobart. The President, 

 Col. W. V. Legge, whose portrait is given, reviews the work 

 of the year, while suggestions are made for a Check-List of 

 Australasian birds and for obtaining information from Light- 

 houses. Subsequently Mr. A. J. Campbell treats of the decade 

 1894-1903 from an ornithological point of view, and remarks 

 on species which he considers to be ascribed to wrong 

 genera, judging from oological characteristics. Mr. T. Carter 

 continues his interesting notes on the region of the North- 

 West Cape, Mr. A. W. Milligan discusses the Western Gym- 

 norhinm (plate), Col. Legge suggests some rectifications in 

 the Tasmanian Ornis, Mr. F. L. Jardine reports encouragingly 

 on the case of the Nutmeg-Pigeon (Myristicivora spilorrhoa), 

 and in conclusion the usual general notes are given. There 

 are plates of the nest of Acanthornis magna, of Gymnorhina 

 dorsalis, and of the playground of Scenojueus dentirostris. 



7.2. Fisher on the Birds of Laysan. 



[Birds of Laysan and the Leeward Islands, Hawaiian Group. By 

 Walter K. Fisher, U.S. Fish-Comm. Bull. 1903, pp. 1-39. Washington.] 



Ornithologists may have supposed that Mr. Rothschild's 

 splendid book had exhausted the subject of the birds of Laysan, 

 but this seems not to have been quite the case. Mr. Walter 

 K. Fisher, of Leland Stanford Junior University, spent a week 



