5G6 Recently piihVished Ornithological Works. 



G9. ' The Emu.' 



[Tlie Emu. A Quarterly Magazine to popularize the Study and 

 Prutection of Native Birds. Vol. x. pts. ?,, 4, 5. Dec. 1910-April 

 1911.] 



A (special) third part of the tenth volume of our con- 

 temi)orary is devoted to the doings of the session of the 

 Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, as it is now hy tlie 

 King's permission to he called, at Brisbane in October 1910. 

 Aw address was given by Sir William MacGrcgor^ Governor 

 of the State, and another by Mr. A. J. Campbell, as President 

 of the Union. Besides shorter excursions, a large i)arty 

 made an expedition to the Capricorn Islands at the south 

 of the Barrier Reef, while Dr. William MacGillivray subse- 

 quently proceeded to the northern grouj)s, Mr. J. W. Mellor 

 to the Blackall Ranges, and Captain S. A. White to Tam- 

 bourine Mountain. 



Accounts are given of all these expeditions, with lists of 

 the species of Birds observed. The White-capped Noddy was 

 very plentiful on the Capricorn Islands, and the Wedge- 

 tailed Petrel proved to be Puffinus sphenurus of Gould ; 

 Mr. Mellor met with the RiHe-bird, Regent-bird, and Cat- 

 bird of the district ; while Captain White found a nest and 

 eggs of the Satin Bower-bird. 



Examjjlcs of several new species, described by Mr. A. J. 

 Campbell, had been collected in North- Western Australia by 

 Mr. G. F. Hill for Mr. H. L. White, namely, Falcimculus 

 whitei, Ptilotis planasi, and Microeca brunneicauda from 

 Napier, Broome Bay, and EopsuUria hilli from Hecla Island ; 

 while Mr. D. Le Souef also described as new Trichoglossus 

 colesi from Gladstone in Queensland. 



In this part, moreover, Mr. K. Broadbent writes on Birds 

 observed in tlie Cardwell and Herbert River Districts in 

 1887 and 1889, and calls attention to the habits of Sceno- 

 poeetes dentirostris, Scythrops novcE-hoIlandice, and Megapod'ms 

 duperreyi. 



In Part 4 we have an excellent paper, full of information, 

 entitled "Field-Notes on the Birds of Kimberley, North- 



