672 Recently jniblished OrnithuJogicdl JVurks. 



Tusca'i Arcliipclag-o, containing notes on ninety species; and 

 Dr. Balducci records on unquestionable evidence tlie occur- 

 rence of an adult female of Pelecainis crispus in Italy. 



A g'ood feature in the new journal is the summary of the 

 contents of all the other principal ornitholog^ical journals, 

 which appears to be carefully composed, and^ if continued 

 regularly, is likely to be of much service to the working 

 ornithologist. 



99. Kloss and 'Robinson on Malayan Birds. 



In Nos. 3 & 4 (1911) of the 'Journal of the Federated 

 Malay States Museums ■' will be found several short papers 

 by Mr. Kloss and Mr. K-obinson relating to the animals 

 of the Malay Peninsula, which they are busily engaged in 

 exploring. Mr. Kloss writes on his Zoological investigation 

 of the Trengganu Archipelago, where mammals were many 

 but birds were few. lie has also made a short visit to the 

 liills of Negri Seird)ilan and obtained a series of 86 species of 

 birds, amongst which are two specimens of Enpetes raucro- 

 cercus. The same author gives an account of some new or 

 rare species recently received — Syi'ninm maingayi awA Pijcno- 

 notus robinsoni ; while Mr. Robinson describes a small col- 

 lection from the mountains of Ulu Laiigat in Selangor, in 

 which are specimens of the beautiful Broad-bill Seri/op/nis 

 rothschildi, and records the occurrence in North Perak of 

 a new '' local race " of Bubo coromandas, which he proposes 

 to name B. c. klossi. 



100. Lucas and Le Souef on the Birds of Australia. 



[The Birds of Australia. By A. B. S. Lucas and W. II. Dudley 

 Le Souef, M.B.O.U. Melbourne'; October, 1911. 400 pp.] 



This will be a useful book to those who cannot afibrd to 

 subscribe to Mr. Mathews' great work (iiow being- issued 

 in "Two-guinea Parts") on the same subject, and many of 

 our friends, we fear, will be in that class. It is a comple- 

 mentary volume to ''The Animals of Australia — jNIammals, 

 Reptiles and Amphibians " of the same authors and pub- 

 lishers. The classification adopted is that of Sharpe's Hand- 



