526 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



summer, from September to March. Mr. Haaguer also 

 ■writes on the nidificatiou of Francolinus sephcena in 

 the Pretoria Zoological Gardens, and on the habits and 

 distribution of the Secretary Bird in South Africa. 



The South Australian Ornithologist. 

 [Vol. i. No. 1. January, 1914. 24 pp.] 



This new journal, of which we have recently received the 

 first number, is the organ of the South Australian Ornitho- 

 logical Association, and is edited by a committee of which 

 Mr, E. R. Zietz is the President, and is presumably published 

 at Adelaide, though there is no mention of the fact on the 

 cover or elsewhere. It would be well to give this 

 information in future for the benefit of bibliographers and 

 others interested. 



The number opens with some account of the history of 

 South Australian Ornithology, by Mr. R. Crompton, from 

 which we learn that a museum was started in Adelaide so 

 long ago as 1855, and that the Association itself dates 

 from 1899. 



The principal paper in the part is by Mr. Zietz, and 

 deals with a collection of birds made by M. W. D. Dodd, in 

 Melville Island, Northern Territory, for the South Australian 

 Museum. In less than two months Mr. Dodd was able to 

 secure examples of 85 species, 30 of which are additional to 

 those collected for Mr. G. M. Mathews by Mr. Rogers and 

 recorded in a recent number of the ' Austral Avian Record.' 

 We fear Mr. Zietz, however, has not seen the January- 

 number of ' The Ibis,' which contains a paper by 

 Mr. Mathews bringing the total number of birds recorded 

 from this island up to 167. Descriptions of six new sub- 

 species are contained in the present paper, and it is to be 

 hoped that these will not clash with those described by 

 Mr. Mathews. 



Mr. E. Ashby proposes to name the Forest Kingfisher, of 

 Northern Territory, Halcyon macleayi eoeruleus, although 

 there are already two forms of the same species described 

 from the same territory. 



