642 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
94. * The Emu.’ 
[The Emu. A Quarterly Magazine to popularize the Study and 
Protection of Native Birds. Vol. vi. pt. 4, April 1907.] 
The longest paper in this part of our Australian 
contemporary consists of an account of the explorations 
undertaken by the Members of the Sixth Congress of the 
Australasian Ornithologists’ Union in Tasmania, with a most 
interesting description of the birds observed at Mt. Welling- 
ton, Launceston, and Mount Barrow. The writer, Mr. J. 
W. Mellor, also gives his experiences on Mount Arthur and 
in the newly opened up Great Lake District, which were 
visited after the meeting was concluded. 
Mr. I. L. Berney continues his notes on the Richmond 
region of North Queensland, and Mr. G. F. Hill begins an 
article on the birds of the Ararat district in Victoria, while 
the breeding-habits of Casarca variegata at Resolution Island 
and of Pelagodroma marina at Port Philip Bay furnish 
material for the pens of Mr. Richard Henry and Messrs. 
A. H. Mattingley and A. G. Campbell. “The Family 
Certhiide in Australia” is the title of another article by the 
last-named, in which the genera Climacteris and Sittella are 
discussed at length; and Mr. F. E. Horne writes at some 
length on Pycnoptilus floccosus. 
95. Field Museum of Natural Mistory. 
[Field Museum of Natural History. Annual Report of the Director to 
the Board of Trustees for the Year 1906. Chicago, 1907. 
The great Museum of Chicago has recently suffered a 
sad loss by the decease of its founder and benefactor 
Mr. Marshall Field. For a year before his death he was 
busy planning the erection of a new buiiding upon a very 
extensive scale, and he has left by his will a bequest of four 
million dollars for its accomplishment. The name of the 
Museum has been appropriately changed to perpetuate his 
memory. 
The list of the staff tells us that Dr. D. G. Elliot, well 
known to many of us, has given up the Curatorship of 
the Department of Zoology, and has been appointed 
Honorary and Supervisory Curator of the same Department. 
