Recently published Ornithological Works. 191 



not so near to extinction as lias been imagined. Full 

 details are given of Carpophaga noi'(P-~ealancUce , Harpa nov(B~ 

 zealandia, Ninox nova-zealand'ice^ Cij anorliamphus auriceps, 

 Nestor meridionalis, Chalcococcyx lucidus, Miro australis, 

 Petroeca toitoi, and Pseudogerygune flaviventris. Seven plates 

 of scenery^ nests, and eggs are added. The author's observa- 

 tions were made iu the winters of 1906-7, on Mt. Maunga- 

 Haumia in the North Island. A second paper, by Mr. Basset 

 Hull, is on the avifauna of the New South Wales Islands 

 (of. ' Emu,' vol. X. p. 253). On Broughton Island the first 

 specimen of what appeared to be Fvffiims griseus taken on 

 Australian soil was found iu a burrow, and nestlings of 

 P. sphenurus were also obtained. Nestlings of (Estrelata 

 leucoptera were procured on Cabbage-Tree Island ; while both 

 the latter species are described in an accompanying article, 

 as well as a new species (Pi/ffinus intermedius) , near P. griseus, 

 taken in 1910 on Cabbage-Tree Island (pi.). It is not quite 

 clear whether the supposed P. griseus proved to be P. inter- 

 medins, but apparently this was not the case. On p. 47 atten- 

 tion is, moreover, drawn to another new Petrel {(Estrelata 

 montana) from Lord Howe Island, which was described iu 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. xxxv. pt. 4, as also the eggs. 



Two other important papers are included in the present 

 parts. One is by Mr. II. G. Barnard, on birds from Cape 

 York, and tells us, among many other items of interest, of 

 eggsof i?o//?/m tricolor, which are said to be white ■^, of those 

 of Halcyon barnardi, Cracticus mentalis, Xanthotis fiUgera, 

 Craspedophora alberti, and Phonygama gouldi ; that the last- 

 named bird builds near Cracticus quoyi for safety's sake, and 

 that Astur nova-hollandice must be considered identical with 

 A. clarus, which interbreeds with it. The bower, nest, and 

 eggs of Chlamydodera orientalis are also described. The 

 second paper is by Dr. J. B. Cleland, and discourses of the 

 contents of the stomachs and crops of a large number of 

 Australian birds, including notes on several from Lord 

 Howe Island, by Dr. T. H. Johnston. 



" Australian Birds iu Siberia *' is the title of a paper by 



* C/". remarks, p. 198 {infra). 



