Vol. VIII, 



"1 From Magazines, &c. A^ 



of nests for two consecutive seasons as follow : — April, i nest ; 

 May, 17 nests ; June, 22 nests ; July, 4 nests. From this it 

 would appear that the earlier breeders lay towards the end 

 of April, some birds in May, and the majority have laid by 

 June or July. — Eds.] 



Reviews. 



[" A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares)." By F. Du Cane Godman 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., &c.] 



A NOTICE of this classical work appeared in The Emu (vol. vii., 

 p. 205) on the publication of part i. Part ii. has now been 

 received, and maintains the high standard of excellence of part i. 

 In the present part the following Australian Petrels are dealt 

 with, namely : — Piiffinus leucomelas, P. bulleri, P. cJilororJiyncJius, 

 P. gavia, P. assinnlis, P. carneipes, P. griseus, and P. tcmiirostris. 

 Perhaps more could have been stated about the last-named — 

 the popular and important " Mutton-Bird " — but possibly other 

 writers have elaborated enough respecting it. 



The following is the history of the " Monograph," taken from 

 The Ibis (April, 1908) : — 



" We have already {Ibis, 1907, p. 515) stated the circumstances 

 under which the illustrated work on the Petrels projected by the 

 late Mr. Osbert Salvin and Dr. Godman came to a stop in 

 consequence of Salvin's death, and have announced Dr. Godman's 

 recent determination to complete the work as nearly as possible 

 in the manner in which it was originally planned. The Tubin- 

 ares, which, besides the typical Petrels, contain the Shearwaters, 

 Fulmars, and Albatrosses, had long been one of the favourite 

 groups of Salvin, who prepared in 1896 the well-known account 

 of them contained in the 25th volume of the ' Catalogue of Birds 

 in the British Museum.' It was the intention of Salvin, after the 

 completion of the last-named work, to issue, in conjunction with 

 Dr. Godman, a series of coloured illustrations of these interesting 

 birds, and at the time of his death (in 1897) many of the plates 

 had been drawn and coloured. Dr. Godman has now resolved 

 to have the series of plates completed, and ' to issue them in 

 the form of a Monograph, adding such synonymy and remarks 

 on the geographical distribution of the species as Mr. Salvin had 

 originally intended and bringing the work up to date.' 



"Since 1896, as we are informed in the prospectus, consider- 

 able additions to our knowledge of the Tubinares have been 

 made by Mr. Walter Rothschild, who possesses a splendid series 

 of these birds in the Tring Museum, and some remarkable dis- 

 coveries concerning them have followed from the researches of 

 the American naturalists on the Pacific coast of North America. 

 The late Sir Walter BuUer has likewise contributed much to our 



