Recently published Ornithological Works. 1G7 



December 1907 till November 1908, and tberefore was al)le 

 to gain a much better insight into its Ornithology than John 

 MacGillivray during the survey made in 1854, or Cheeseman 

 at its annexation to New Zealand in 1887. Many and 

 various are the points of interest, but we have only space 

 here to refer specially to the Petrels of the geuera Puffinus 

 and (Estrelata, the synonymy and breeding- habits of which 

 are discussed at full length. No one interested in the group 

 can afford to ignore this article. The Tui was found to be 

 abundant ; while the European Song-Thrush, Blackbird, and 

 Starling have reached Sunday Island and firmly established 

 themselves there. Plates are given of the Crater Lake, the 

 downy youugof/Sw/a cyanops, Phaetlion erubescens, (Estrelata 

 neglecta, and the nesting-places of the two latter. 



Dr. W. MacGillivray writes at length of an oologist^s 

 holiday on the Barrier Range near Broken Hill, N.S.W., 

 where a great number of birds' nests and eggs were 

 examined, and continues his paper in the second part of the 

 volume. Mr. G, M. Mathews publishes a list of seventeen 

 additions to his ' Hand-list of the Birds of Australasia,' and 

 in the October number continues his list of the Birds of 

 North- West Australia, with notes on the colou.r of the bill, 

 eyes, and so forth, and on the contents of the stomachs. 



In the two numbers we find a description by Mr. J. 

 W. M ell or of a new form of Crow-Shrike, Strepera jjlumbea, 

 from Eyre Peninsula, S.A., its nest and eggs ; and also of the 

 hitherto unknown nests and eggs o? Pcecilodryas pulverulentus 

 and Malurus dulcis from Napier Broome Bay by Mr. H. 

 L. White ; while Mr. Mathews is again to the fore with 

 a description of the type-specimen of Rhipidura jjhasianus 

 De Vis, accompanied by a coloured plate. 



Distributional papers are well represented by those of 

 Mr. A. F. Grossman (cont.),C. Gubanyi, and A. P. Ingle, on 

 the Broome district,N. W. A., Sandy Creek, Riverina, N.S.W., 

 and Merriman's Creek, South Gippsland, respectively. 



In the October number ]\Ir. S, W. Jackson furnishes a 

 most interesting series of additional notes on the habits 

 of the Tooth-billed Bower-bird [Scenopa'ctes dentirostris) , 



