702 Recently imblished Oraitholoyical Works. 



A new Dutch Ornitholoyical Club. 



[Club van Nederlandsclie Vogelkundigen. Jaarbericht, No. 2, Pp. 

 l-]o2. Deventer (Kluwer), 1912. Svo.] 



Evciy year the clubs and societies exclusively devoted to 

 the study of ornifcliology increase in number, and we now 

 have to announce the formation of a new one in Holland 

 whose second ' Yearbook ' we have lately received. The 

 president and moving spirit appears to be Baron Snouckaert 

 van Schauburg, who contributes an article on the rarer ])irfls 

 wliich have come to his notice in Holland between May 

 1911 and April 1912. Mr. P. H. Hens, the Secretary of 

 the Club, w'rites on the birds of the neighbourhootl of 

 Roermond, and Mr. C. Eykman on those of the south- 

 western part of Utrecht province, while from outside 

 Holland Mr. W. C. van Heurn contributes some notes on his 

 ornithological experiences in Surinam and Baron Snouckaert 

 on a collection of birds from Palestine. 



The Emu. 



[The Eiiui. A Quarterly Magazine to popularize the studj' and 

 piotectiou of native birds. Vol. xii. July 1912 to April 1913.] 



The last volume of the 'Emu' fully sustains the reputation 

 of the past and contains a number of papers dealing with 

 every aspect of Australian ornithology. Capt. S. A. White 

 gives an account in four articles of his ornithological 

 collecting trips recently undertaken in various districts of 

 South Australia. The results of these have been presented to 

 Mr. Mathews to assist him in the completion of his work on 

 the ' Bi)'ds of Australia.^ So far the districts visited by 

 Capt. and Mrs. White have been the Eyre Peninsula, Port 

 Augusta, the Malice of the lower Murray, Lakes Albert and 

 Alexandrine, up the mouth of the Murray, Cape Jervis 

 and Kangaroo Island. Other articles containing interesting 

 field-notes are by Mr. F. E. Wilson on the birds and eggs of 

 the Mallee country in the north-west of Victoria, by Mr. S. 

 W. Jackson, who travelled to a spot on the Moonie river 

 on the New South Wales-Queensland border in search of 

 tlie nests and eggs of the Spotted Bower-bird [Chlumydodera 



