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Goose, the Eider, and the Common Gull, all in their nesting- 

 haunts or on their nests, and they believe that — anyhow, in 

 the case of the first- named — the sense of smell is so well 

 developed that they can only be satisfactorily photographed 

 when the wind is blowing from the bird towards the camera 

 and liiding tent. Some equally beautiful photographs of the 

 Ked-throated Diver have been sent by Miss E. L. Turner. 

 Mr. Witherby's article on the plumages of the Rook have 

 already been noticed, and Messrs. Jourdain and Eorrer give 

 us an interesting account of '^Erythrism in Eggs.^' The 

 " Eird-riuging^' scheme attracts more and more helpers 

 every year, and the results gradually obtained, when sifted 

 out a)id tabulated, cannot fail to help to solve many of the 

 obscurer problems of bird-migration. 



The Emu. 



[The Emu. Official Organ of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union. Vol. xiii. pts. 1-4. July 1913-April 1914.] 



The thirteenth volume of ' The Emu ' contains a large 

 number of contributions of a varied nature in regard to 

 Australian ornithology. The veteran American, Dr. R. W. 

 Shufeldt, whose favourite study is the osteology of birds, 

 contributes an account of the skeleton of the Honey-eater 

 {Acanthoch(Era carunculata) , illustrated with photographs 

 taken by himself. 



Among the topographical papers are those of Capt. S. A. 

 White on the Gawler Ranges of South Australia ; of 

 Messrs. Orton and Sandland, on the birds of the neighbour- 

 hood of Moore, in West Australia ; of Mr. E. D. Barnard, on 

 the Torilla Plains of Uueenssland ; and of Mr. H. G. Barnard, 

 on the birds of the Brunnette Downs in Northern Territory. 



Mr. C. F. Cole sends a description of a new Scrub-Wren, 

 Sericornis insularis, from Forsyth Island, in Bass Strait, and 

 Dr. W^. Macgillivray finds it necessary to propose a new 

 generic name for a parrot related to Cyclopsittacus, collected 

 at Cape York, by Mr. M'Lennan. He proposes to name the 

 bird P seudijpsittams maclcnnani, gen. et sp. n. 



The Annual Meeting of the II. A. O. U. was held at 



