570 Recent/// published Ornithological Works. 



\vnttcii_, and often excellent, though even these might with 

 advantage be shorter in the case of some of the commoner 

 species. The nest and eggs are the special province of 

 ]\Ir. Jourdain, and the migration falls chiefly to Mr. Thomson, 

 but no invariable rule is adopted, and Messrs. Pycraft and 

 Bonhote between them contribute several articles. A 

 pleasing feature in the book is the introduction of pretty 

 photographs of nests with their surroundings and often with 

 the parent birds ; M'hile the coloured plates of eggs by 

 Mr. Gronvold are excellent. About the other coloured 

 plates, which are fanciful and unnatural, the less said the 

 better. 



75. Matheivs on the Birds of Australia. 



[The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. i. pt. 8. 

 London : Witherby & Co., April 1911.] 



This part of Mr. Mathews's fine work concludes the 

 Pigeons, all of which are figured except Geophaps short- 

 ridgei (which the author believes to be a hybrid between 

 G. tranquilla and G. cuneata) and Lophophaps leucogaster. 



The gmera treated are Chalcophaps (with the species 

 C. chrysochlora and the subspecies C. longirostris), Phaps 

 (P. eleg;,ns and P. chalcoptera) , Histriopliaps {H. histriunica), 

 Petrophassa (P. albipennis and P. rujipennis), Geophaps 

 (G. scrip! a and G. smithii), Lophophaps (L. ferruginea, 

 L. plumifera, and its subspecies L. jj. leucogaster), Ocyphaps 

 [O. lojihotes), and Leucosarcia {L. melanoleuca) . The last- 

 named has its name changed from L. p)icaia, in accordance 

 with Mr. Mathews's views on strict priority. Moreover, he 

 considers the Chalcophaps occidentalis of North identical with 

 C. longirostris of Gould, while he corrects the locality of the 

 original describer in such cases as Phaps chalcoptera. We 

 notice that the names on some of the plates do not correspond 

 with the letterpress, but we understand that the plates were 

 printed off in advance and that corrections in the text were 

 inevitable. The same may be said with regard to the colours 

 of the soft parts, Avhere further information has been pro- 

 cured. Petrojjhassa rvfipennis is only the second Australian 



