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Reviews.



THE EMU.


The October number of this journal is well up to its usual

standard of excellence, its chief feature being an admirable paper

by Mr. Sidney W. Jackson, entitled Haunts of the Spotted Bower

Bird. In it the author describes a trip to a station on the

west bank of the Moonie Biver in New South Wales, about

500 miles north-west of Sydney, where he camped for about five

months, during which he gained a better acquaintance with the

Spotted Bower Bird than probably any person has previously

possessed. His diary of field observations, which was kept daily,

is of very great interest, throwing considerable light on the habits

not only of the Bower-birds, which were his daily companions, but

upon a large number of other birds which frequented the district,

which appears to have been a regular ornithologists’ paradise, not¬

withstanding the fact that the season was excessively dry and hot

—100° during the night of December 25th.


Mr. Jackson succeeded in taking a number of photographs of

the nests and eggs and young of the Spotted Bower-bird and several

other species, and some of these have been admirably reproduced to

accompany the paper.


Other subjects dealt with include “ Internal Parasites re¬

corded from Australian Birds,” by Dr. Harvey Johnston. “ Field

Ornithology in South Australia,” by Captain White, and “ Notes

on the Mistletoe Bird ” by Mr. L. G. Chandler. D. S.-S.



REPORT ON THE IMMIGRATION OF SUMMER

RESIDENTS IN THE SPRING OF 1911.


The Committee appointed by the British Ornithologist Club

to carry out observations on the migration of British birds have had

no light task to perform, and the present exhaustive report, like

those previously issued, is an imposing volume containing an im¬

mense amount of useful information on a subject which, until it was

taken up by this Committee, was very little known.


As in previous Reports, the various species are taken separately

and the dates of their first arrival and subsequent movements over

our islands, as observed by the large band of ornithologists and other



