488 Recently published Ornithological Works, 
60. § The Emu,’ 
[The Emu. A Quarterly Magazine to popularise the Study and 
Protection of Native Birds. Vol. vi. pt. 3, Jan. 1907.] 
This part contains the Report of the Sixth (Hobart) 
Session of the Australasian Ornithologists’ Union, with a 
subordinate report on birds that have struck lighthouses. 
The President, Col. C. 8. Ryan, of Victoria, addressed the 
meeting on ‘‘ The Protection of Native Birds,” while atten- 
tion was drawn to the need of a “ Check-List.” 
The chief articles are by Mr. D. Le Souef, on a new 
Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisornis rudolphi hunti) from British 
New Guinea, and by Col. Legge, on the Emus of Tasmania 
and King Island. For the latter small form the name 
Dromeus bassi was proposed, but only to be withdrawn 
almost simultaneously. Mr. F. L. Berney prints a fourth 
part of his paper on the birds of the Richmond district 
in N. Queensland (with many details of nidification), 
Mr. A. G. Campbell writes on the rearing of a Cuckoo 
(Cacomantis flabelliformis), and Mr. Mattingley on the same 
species and Cuculus pallidus. 
Plate x. illustrates the home of Sphenura broadbenti, and 
the nest and eggs of Pycnoptilus floccosus; pl.xi. the nesting 
of Sterna bergit. The accompanying notes will be read with 
interest; as alsowill the suggested identification of the Galden 
of Dampier with Butorides stagnatilis, to be found in the 
“ Correspondence.” 
61. Hall’s ‘Glimpses of Australian Bird-hfe, 
(Glimpses of Australian Bird-life, Thirty-one criginal Photographs 
direct from Nature. With Notes by Robert Hall, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. 
Melbourne, 1906. Price 1s. | 
Mr. Hall’s ‘‘ booklet” gives us a few words on each of 
the photographie pictures prepared mostly by his ‘ fellow- 
naturalist? Mr. A. H. Mattingley, to which, howeyer, 
other friends and the author have contributed. Some of 
the pictures are very good, others are not quite so successful. 
It would have been better, we think, to have added the 
