474 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Two important articles by Messrs. Tliaisz and Csiki deal 

 with the vegetable and insect food of the Partridge; and there 

 is a long and well illustrated paper by Dr. Greschik on the 

 microscopic anatomy of the large intestine of several selected 

 types of birds. 



As is usual, the articles are all printed in parallel columns 

 in German and Magyar. 



Austral Avian Record. 



[The Austral Avian Record. Vol. i. 1913, nos. 6, 7, 8. Edited bj 

 Gregory M. Mathews. London (Wither by).] 



The double number, Q k, 7, contains a list of all the species 

 of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the 

 location of the type-specimens as far as possible. 



It may not be generally known that John Gould's collection 

 of Australian birds was acquired by Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, 

 of Philadelphia, who had made large collections of birds from 

 various parts of the world. 



Dr. Wilson was for some time President and was always 

 largely interested in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, and to its Museum he presented his entire 

 Ornithological collection numbering some thirty thousand 

 specimens, including Gould's Australian birds. 



Mr. Witmer Stone, the present Curator of the Museum 

 of the Academy, has assisted Mr. Mathews in preparing 

 this list, shewing at a glance where the types of all 

 the Gouldian birds are (some of the types of the birds 

 described after Dr. Wilson's purchase are in the British 

 Museum or elsewhere), and where they originally came from. 

 There is no doubt that this piece of work will be of infinite 

 value to all workers in Australian ornithology. 



The eighth number contains descriptions of additional 

 subspecies of birds from the Monte Bello Islands off the 

 nortb-west coast of Australia and from elsewhere, a dis- 

 cussion of the correct type species of the genus MeViphaya, 

 and definitions of some new generic names for Australian 

 birds, all by Mr. Mathews. 



