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us for putting the adjectives into the same gender as the 
substantive) is the representative subspecies of 7. redivivum 
in Lower California, distinguished by its paler colour. 
103. Van Oort’s Notes on Birds from the Leyden Museum. 
Dr. E. D. Van Oort sends us separate copies of three notes” 
which he has contributed to the 29th volume of the ‘ Notes from 
the Leyden Museum.’ Inthe first of these (No. vi.) he shews 
that the Australian Spoonbill (Platalea regia) “ occurs as a 
rare straggler in the Eastern Austro-Malay Archipelago, and 
that its western limits are N.E. Celebes and Timor.” In 
the second (No. vii.) he describes a new subspecies of 
Rhectes from Batanta under the name Pitohut cerviniventris 
pallidus, and gives a list of the specimens of this genus 
in the Leyden Museum. In the third note (No. viii.) 
Dr. Van Oort shews that the typical specimens of Edolio- 
soma morio (Temm.) were obtained by Forsten in Northern 
Celebes and belong to the northern form which Meyer and 
Wiglesworth have called EL. morio septentrionalis. But this 
is, in fact, the true H. morio ; he, therefore, proposes to name 
the southern form E. morio wiglesworthi. 
104. Whitaker on the Birds of Nottinghamshire. 
[Notes on the Birds of Nottinghamshire. By J. Whitaker. 
Nottingham: Walter Black & Co., 1907. 8vo. Pp. i-xviii, 1-298; 
2 col. pl. and 10 illustrations. | 
This pleasantly written book—by a keen lover of nature, 
and not, as the author is careful to inform us, by a scientific 
naturalist—gives an excellent popular account of the county 
and its birds, and may strongly be recommended to all 
dwellers in the Midlands, though it is of comparatively little 
use to advanced Ornithologists. Nottinghamshire, besides 
containing the forests of Birkland, Mansfield, and Rufford, 
with much rough heather country, is noted for its splendid 
parks and fine sheets of water, while the Trent and other 
smaller streams naturally attract many kinds of water-fowl. 
Mr. Whitaker commences his volume with an Introduction 
of considerable length, in which, among other details, we find 
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