730 Recently published Ornitholoc/ical fJ^urks. [Ibis, 



The Emu. 



[The Emu. Official organ of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union. Vol. xix. pts. 1-3. Melbourne : July 1919-Jan. 1920.J 



The first part contains articles on the Upper Clarence 

 Region, N. S. W., by Mr. Ramsay ; the Mackay district 

 by Messrs. Harvey; the Dolomite country by Mr. Kersey; 

 and tbe Upper Murray River by Colonel Bryant ; while 

 these distributional papers are intermingled with others 

 on separate species. Here Mr. A. T. Campbell writes on 

 some Wren-Waiblers, with a coloured plate of the forms 

 from Dirk Haitog and Barrow Islands and the main- 

 land ; Mr. Gilbert on the Black-throated Honey-eater ; 

 Mr. McGilp on the nest and eggs of the Desert Bush Cliat ; 

 Mr. Alexander and Mr. Chishohn respectively on four 

 Western Australian species and on those introduced into 

 Queensland. A note on a Dipterous Bird-Parasite is of 

 considerable interest; while vve wish to call special attention 

 to the article entitled "An Ornithologist with the A.I.F. 

 in Ejiypt and Palestine/' by Mr. Berney, who served tiiere 

 during the war. 



In the second part Mr. Hall compares the Eastern 

 Palsearctic and Australian Avifauna, as observed in his 

 journey to the Lena Delta (Ibis, 1904, p. 415) ; Mr. Lord 

 gives an account of a trip to the Tasmanian National I*ark ; 

 a id Mr. Sutherland writes on birds ob'^erved at a New 

 Zealand Lighthouse. Captain White has a coloured plate 

 and discussion on the Allied Buif-rumped Tit-VA'arbier ; 

 Mr. Alexander criticizes Mr. Campbell's Wren-Warbler 

 paper; and various authors write on the food or habits ot 

 certain Parrots. 



The third part contains an account of the R. A. O. U. 

 Annual Meeting, with articles on the excursions to the 

 Bunya Range and Stradbroke Island. We have also notes 

 on Sea Birds and on northern species by Major Macgillivray 

 and Mr. W. H. D. Le Souef respectively; vviiiie under the 

 species separately treated come the Striped-breasted Shrike 

 Thrush (with a coloured plate), and Small-billed Tit- 



