Recently 2)ublished Ornithological M'urks. C97 



Wall, the naturalist of the expedition, was afterwards lost. 

 A description of the bird under the name of Cusuarius 

 australis was published by William S. Wall, the Curator of 

 the Australian Museum, who was the brother of Tliomas 

 Wall, based on rough notes and sketches made by the latter, 

 on p. 88 of "The Illustrated Sydney News" of June 3rd, 

 1854. Tills account forms the basis of Gould's descriptiou 

 (Handbook Eds. Austr. 1865, ii. p. 206). 



The pliotograph which accompanies the present article, 

 though stated to be that of the type, is apparently that of 

 the second example obtained by Mr. G. Raudall Johnson 

 near Rockingham Bay in about 1866, This specimen was 

 described 'oy Mr, Kretft. the third curator of the Australian 

 Museum, in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' 

 for 1867, under the name C. johastoni, and is now iu the 

 Australian Museum. 



Robinson on Malayan Birds. 



[Notes ou Birds new to, or rare iu, tbe Malay Peninsula (Third 

 series). By H. C. Robinson, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U, Juurn. Fed. Malay 

 States Museum, v. 1913, pp. 15-22.] 



]\Ir, E,obinson continues his investigations into the avi- 

 fauna of the Malay Peninsula and in this short paper 

 comments on several rare species he has recently secured. 

 Dromas ardeola, the Crab Plover, has its range extended 

 from the Andamans to Selangor, but no new species are 

 described. 



Todd on the Ground-Doves. 



[A Revifcion of the Genus Chccmepelia. By W. E. Clyde Todd. 

 Annals Carnegie Museum, viii. 1913, pp. 507-603.] 



Mr. Clyde Todd submits the Ground-Doves of the genus 

 ChcemepeUa to a thorough and exhaustive revision based 

 on the examination of no less than 1920 specimens loaned 

 from the leading Museums and private collections of the 

 United States. He recognises five species, one of which, 

 C. passerina, is further separated into sixteen subspecies, 



