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lengthy treatise upon the osteology of the Cereopsis Goose, we are

told that it is necessary to record a complete description of its

skeleton, because “ this extraordinary fowl is now on the road to

extinction ” ! !


Capt. S. A. White’s paper on Field Ornithology on Kangaroo

Island is interesting. Amongst numerous birds, he mentions meet¬

ing with the Kangaroo Island Crimson Parrot ( Platycercus melanop-

tera ) and the Black Cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus ivhitece).


The July No. also has a lengthy article by Capt. S. A. White

on Field Ornithology in S. Australia (The Gawler Ranges), in which

he tells his readers that probably the first ornithologist to work that

country was Mr. J. F. Andrews in 1880, who mentions in letters

written at that time, that amongst other skins he obtained those of

the Night-Parrot ( Geopsittacus occidentals) for a trifling sum, so

that evidently these birds were much more numerous then than they

are now.


“ Bird-Life of Kow Plains ” (Victoria) by L. G. Chandler

helps to swell this number with good ‘ copy,’ illustrated by beautiful

photographs of nests and eggs. H. D. A.



BOOKS BY MEMBERS.


Messrs. Witherby & Co. are publishing this Autumn the

following works :—


“ The Gannet, a Bird with a History,'" by Mr. J. H. GURNEY, who has for

many years been studying the life history of this bird and the historical

references to it,


“ Indian Pigeons and Doves," by Mr. E. 0. STUART BAKER ; which will be a

companion Vol. to the same author’s well-known Indian Ducks.”


Camping in Crete," by Mr. AUBYN TREVOR-BATTYE who gives, in addition

to an account of the Country, Mountains, etc., descriptions of its birds.


W 7 e hope to be able to review these books at greater length

later on.—E d.



