Recently published Ornithological Works. 703 



maculat(t). This article, wliicli is illustrated by a number of 

 beauiiful photographs of the haunts^ the playgrouuds or 

 bowers, aud of the nests, eggs and young of the Bower-bird, 

 is of special interest, aud from it cau be obtained a very 

 complete account of the habits of these interesting birds. 

 Mr. G. F. Hill sends some notes on the birds met with 

 on a journey from Oodnacatta in South Australia north- 

 wards through the heart of the continent to the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria. 



New species of Australian birds are described as follows : — 

 Ptilonorhynchus minor, p, 19, Herberton ranges, Queensland ; 

 Ftilotis carpentariensis , \). 19, Burketown, Queensland; Pti- 

 otis subchrysops, p. 19, Cooktown, Queensland, all by Mr. A. 

 J. Campbell ; Falco melanotus, Megalurus iiindersi, and 

 Sericornis flindersi, pp. 164 and 165, described by Messrs. 

 White and Mellor, from Flinders Island in Bass Straits. 

 The last two of these are described as " subsp. nov.^', but 

 no indication is given of the species of which they are 

 considered to be the sub-species and the descriptions are not 

 comparative ; no type is named, nor is the number of speci- 

 mens obtained or compared given. Such slip,shod methods as 

 these are bringing systematic ornithology into great dis- 

 repute and w^e must protest agciinst them. Mr. Dodd of 

 Nelson in northern Queensland, describes Cacomantis lineatus 

 (p. 165) from a single female, Mr. Mellor Amyntornis 

 mcrrotsyi (p. 166) from near Lake Torrens in Central 

 Australia, and Mr. Milligan Acanthiza puymcea (p. 167) 

 from the Mallee district of Victoria. Finally ^lessrs. 

 Campbell and Kershaw describe Amyntornis rufa (p. 274), 

 from Northern Territory. 



Other articles of special interest are on the breeding- 

 habits of Gyyis Candida in the Kermedcc group, by 

 11. S. Bell, on the internal parasites of Australian l.iirds, by 

 T. H. Johnston, and on the osteology oF Cereopsis novce- 

 hoUandice, by Dr. Shufeldt of Washington, U.S.A. 



A supplementary number of the present volume contains 

 a new otficial check-list of Australian birds, in I'cgaid to 

 which a notice will be found on p. 699. 



