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and in addition we would ask them to help in the work by pur¬

chasing the Report. These volumes are expensive to print and

bring out and the Committee is dependent on voluntary sub¬

scriptions and sales to meet these expenses.



THE EMU'*


The numbers of this Journal under review contain, as

usual, many interesting articles on the Australian and New

Zealand fauna. In the April number Mr. Jackson gives an in¬

teresting account of his search for the nest of the Rufous Scrub

Bird (. Atrichornis rufescens), a very rare and skulking species.

The article is illustrated by numerous photographs showing the

nature of the bush and situation of the nest. Mr. Jackson also

met with the Tyre Bird and gives photographs of its nest and

dancing ground.


The July number contains, among many other notes, a

long and interesting paper by Mr. S. C. McLean on the Bush

birds of New Zealand, and by Mr. Barnard on Field notes from

Cape Yoik.


In the October number we have a nice coloured plate of

the Yellow Shrike Tit (.Falcunculus whitei). Mr. McLean con¬

tinues his notes on New Zealand Birds; Mr. Cleland writes a

valuable paper ou the stomach contents of many species of

native birds, and Mr. Buturlin, the well-known Russian Orni¬

thologist, gives an account of the Australian Birds lie met with

in Siberia, and there are also many articles and notes on other

Australian Birds. Our friends in Australia are evidently keen

ornithologists, and they are fortunate in possessing a most in-

teiesting avifauna, about which we have still much to learn.



Publicatiotis received :—A Naturalist on Desert Islands by P. R. Lowe;

Home Life of the Osprey by C. A. Abbott; Canaries, Hybrids and British

Birds by John Robson and others.



* The Emu, Journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ Union. April, July

and October, ign. T.ondon : K. A. Porter.



