Recently published Ornithuhgical Works. 569 



Australia from the north-east, but that a (e\v of the genera 

 (such as Mirafra, Pomatostomus, and Xerophila) arrived by 

 an ancient bridge that formerly cour.ected Timor with tlie 

 Australian continent. 



Tliese views are fully explained in the present paper, and 

 accompanied by tables of the genera on which they are 

 based. 



73. Jackson oti the Game-birds of East Africa. 



[Game-birds of the East-Africa and Uganda Protectorates. By F. J. 

 Jackson. Journ. E. Afr. and Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. i. p. 60.] 



We are glad to receive a copy of the second number * of 

 this newly-established Society's Journal. The Fauna and 

 Flora of our new Protectorates are so rich, and their physical 

 features are so varied, that tliere is an enormous field of 

 work for those who take an interest in Natural History. 

 Mr. Jackson, than whom we suppose no one is better 

 acquainted with the Birds of British East Africa and Uganda, 

 continues in a second paper his account of the " Game- 

 birds " of these countries. Under this title are included 

 member's of four different groups — Quails, Guinea-fowls, 

 Iiemipodes, and Sand-Grouse, which altogether number 

 18 species in East Africa. To these should be added the 

 16 Francolins described by Mr. Jackson in his first article 

 on this subject, which makes the so-called "Game-birds" of 

 East Africa 34 in number. 



74. Kirkman on British Birds. 



[The British Bird Book. Edited by F. B. Kirkman. London and 

 Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack. Sections ii.-iv.] 



The three parts of this quarto publication now before us 

 contain the Buntings, Larks, Wagtails, Pipits, the Creeper, 

 the Wren, the Dipper, the Thrushes, the Warblers, the 

 Iledge-Sparrow, the Starlings, tiie Oriole, and the Waxwing. 

 The descriptions by JNIr. Pycraft are, as usual, good, if rather 

 long for the tvro, and the life-histories of the birds are well 



* Cf. ' Ibis," 1910, p. 748. 



