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and Norfolk Island avifauna, he accepts Mr, Basset Hull's 

 proposal of a Phillipian Subregion for the two com- 

 bined. We hope, however, that a different name will be 

 adopted to prevent confusion with the Philippine Islands. 



All the Grebes are included in one genus; but, as the 

 author calls the Order Pudicipediformes and the Family 

 Podicipedida, we are sorry that he does not also call the 

 genus Podicipes. Aptenodytes patagonica is subdivided into 

 three races, A. p. longirostris of Scopoli (Kerguelen Island 

 and the Crozets), A. p. halli, subsp. n. (Macquarie Island), 

 and the typical form. The genus Penguinus is resuscitated 

 for Aptenodytes ckrysocome and its allies, while Eudyptula 

 minor of Australia is now given as E. m. novce-hollandice, 

 and the extra-limital form from tbe Chatham Islands is 

 termed E. m. iredalei, subsp. n. 



15. Nelson on a new Humming-bird. 



[Description of a new geuus and species of Humming-bird from 

 Panama. By E. W. Nelson. Smiths. Misc. Coll. vol. Ixvi. No 21 

 (1911).] 



Mr. E. A. Goldman, of the Biological Survey, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has been sent to Panama to 

 study the Mammals and Birds of the Canal-zone and 

 adjacent parts of the new State. He has discovered an 

 unknown Humming-bird — not only of a new species, but of 

 a new genus. It is allied to Saucerottia, " but the under 

 tail-coverts are small and very short, and the three median 

 ones are remarkably specialised." Mr. Nelson names chis 

 bird after its discoverer, Goldmania violiceps. 



IG. North on Australian Nests and Eggs. 



[Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. 

 Vol. iii., Part 2. Sydney, 1911.] 



Of this valuable work, Part 2 of Vol. iii. contains the 

 remaining portion of the Family Cacatuidse, comprising part 

 of the Sub-fauiily Cacatuina and the Sub-family Calopsit- 

 tacina ; the Family Psittacidse, containing the Sub-families 

 Palceornithina and Plafycercina, the two thus forming the 



