352 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
31. Hail’s ‘Key to the Birds of Australia’ 
[A Key to the Birds of Australia, with their Geographical Distribution. 
By Robert Hall, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. Second Edition. Melbourne and 
London (R. H. Porter), 1966.] 
Mr. Hall’s second edition of his ‘Key to the Birds of 
Australia’ is, in fact, a reprint of his first edition (see 
‘The Ibis,’ 1900, p. 885), with additional information and 
pictures intercalated between the pages of the original. 
The pictures are reduced copies of the plates in Gould’s 
‘Birds of Australia.? The mode of introducing the new 
matter seems to us to be rather awkward, as the new pages 
are left unnumbered, so that it is difficult to refer to them. 
Nevertheless the author has produced a useful handbook 
containing a great deal of information in a small compass. 
A list of Australian “species and subspecies recently described 
as new ” is appended to the old text, and helps to bring the 
work “up to date.” It gives us the titles of 49 species, 
which, added to those mentioned in the first edition, would 
bring the total number of Australian species now recognised 
up to about 816. From these, however, should be deducted 
the so-called “Spotted Emeu (Dromeus irroratus),” which 
has been recently shown to be merely a slight variety of 
D. nove-hollandie and not even a local form. 
32. Hartert on Birds from North-west Australia. 
[Additional Notes on Birds from N.W. Australia. By Ernst Hartert, 
Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 754.] 
These notes are supplementary to Dr. Hartert’s paper in 
‘Novitates Zoologice,’ vol. xii. p. 194, on the birds collected 
by Mr. Tunney in N.W. Australia and Arnhem Land (see 
‘This,’ 1905, p. 276). They relate to Ametrornis woodwardi, 
Colluricincla woodwardi, and Gymnorhina tibicen longirostris. 
The two former are figured. 
33. Hartert on some Philippine Birds. 
[Notes on Birds from the Philippine Islands. By Ernst Hartert, 
Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 755. | 
These notes relate to specimens in the Tring Museum 
