584 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Biziura exhumata, Anas (Nettion) strenua, Nyroca effodiata, 

 and Nettopus eyrensis (new Ducks); Pelecanus grandiceps, 

 P. proavus, Plotus laticeps, Phalacrocorax gregorii, and 

 P. venustus (new Pelecanidse) ; and Dromeeus patricius (a new 

 Emu). 



It is evident, therefore, that the former and larger Lake 

 Eyre had a more varied and abundant avifauna than the 

 present lake. 



74. De Vis's Ornithological Notes. 



["Ornithological." ByC.W.DeVis. Ann. Queensl.Mus.no. 6, p. 41.] 



Mr. De Vis writes on Gerygone flavida Ramsay, which he 

 thinks has been incorrectly assigned in the Cat. of Birds 

 (iv. p. 330) to G. personata Gould. He also describes as 

 new Sericornis tyrannula and Acanthiza modesta from Charle- 

 ville (Broadbent) , and A. katherina and Pachycephala mestoni 

 from the Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland. 



75. Duncker on the Migration of Birds. 



[Wanderzug der Vogel. Von Hans Duncker. Jena, 1905. 8vo. 

 Pp. i-ix, 1-118 ; 2 maps.] 



This pamphlet consists of an essay on the migration and 

 lines of flight of birds, Avhich obtained a prize at Gottingen. 

 It reviews the whole subject under two heads — how the 

 birds go and why they go, — and discusses the views of all 

 the best-known authors. Moreover, it brings under con- 

 sideration the height at which birds fly (as much as 1000 m.) 

 and the speed of their flight (not over 100 km. per hour), the 

 effect of meteorological conditions on migration, and so forth. 



76. Harting' s ' Recreations of a Naturalist. ,' 



[Recreations of a Naturalist. By James Edmund Harting. With 

 eighty-one illustrations. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. 8vo. 

 Pp. i-xvi, 1-433. Price 16s. net.] 



Mr. Harting is one of those writers who have the faculty 

 of always interesting their readers, and we have had great 

 pleasure in making use of the opportunity now afforded us 

 of renewing our acquaintance with the essays contained in 



