206 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



merited with fine white hair-like markings on the anterior portion 

 of each segment. Head black, with minute white spots ; crown 

 slightly depressed, face reddish-brown. 



Four pairs of prolegs, the last two pairs being rudimentary. 



Length, 1 inch 3 lines. Food, Acacia dealbata. 



Changed into pupa slightly under surface of ground early in 

 May, the imago appearing at the end of the following January. 



Pupa dark brown, shining, the last segment pointed and fur- 

 nished with two minute hooks. Length, 10 lines. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds. By A. J. Campbell. 

 Printed for the author. Pawson and Brailsford, Sheffield, 

 England. 



At length we are able to congratulate our fellow-member, Mr. A. 

 J. Campbell, on the completion of his self-imposed task, and the 

 production of a valuable addition to the natural history litera- 

 ture of Australia. The work under review forms a somewhat 

 bulky volume, containing nearly 1,100 pages of letterpress in 

 addition to preface, indexes, &c. The author has dedicated the 

 volume " to the memory of the two G.'s " — John Gould and John 

 Gilbert — men who did giants' work in Australian ornithology 

 during the first half of the last century. The introduction, of 

 thirteen pages, is devoted to a brief sketch of the work done in 

 Australian ornithology and oology up to the present day. This 

 is followed by a systematic index of twenty pages, in which, as 

 all through the volume, the vernacular name occupies the first 

 place, so that would-be readers need not be deterred from its 

 perusal by any formidable Latin names. A map of Australia 

 follows. This would have been more interesting had the author's 

 tracks from Melbourne in the south to Trinity Bay in the north, 

 and westerly to the Abrolhos Islands, off the coast of Western 

 Australia, including Tasmania and the islands of Bass Straits, 

 been indicated upon it, thus showing that so much of Mr. Camp- 

 bell's information is the result of personal observations in the field. 

 The main portion of the work consists of over 1,000 octavo 

 pages, not one of which can in any sense be termed dry. He 

 enumerates 765 birds, but is obliged to leave the nests and eggs of 

 nearly 100 " undescribed," so that Australian oologists have still 

 some work to do. After the name of the bird, which bears 

 Gould's reference number, is given the reference to the figure of 

 the bird, the description in the " British Museum Catalogue," and 

 to previous descriptions of the eggs. Then follows the geo- 

 graphical distribution, by political not faunal areas, description 

 of nest, description of eggs, and, finally, observations. These 

 latter are written in a very popular style, and vary from a few 



