Recently published Ornithological Works. 663 
"" One of the most remarkable instances of the change of 
habits in wild birds is shown in the case of the common 
E,hinoceros-bird_, which formerly fed on ticks and the other 
parasites infesting game and domestic animals. It was not 
infrequent for an animal suffering from a sore to be so badly 
probed by these birds that it died as a result. Since the 
cattle-plague destroyed the immense herds in Ukambani 
and nearly all the sheep and goats were consumed durinjif 
the faminCj the Rhinoceros-bird, deprived of its former food, 
has become carnivorous, and at the present time any animal 
not constantly watched is liable to be killed by it. Perfectly 
healthy animals have their ears eaten down to the bone, and 
holes torn in their backs and in the femoral regions/' 
115. Le Souef's Visit to the Furneaux Islands. 
[A Visit to tlie Furneaux Group of Islands. By D. Le Souef, 
C.M.Z.S. Vict. Nat. xviii. pp. 181-188.] 
Mr. D. Le Souef, who, we are informed, has now succeeded 
his father in the Secretaryship of the Zoological Gardens at 
Melbourne, has given the field-naturalists of Victoria an 
interesting description of his visit to the Furneaux group of 
islands in Bass' Straits. Here is the well-known home of 
the Mutton-bird (Pvffinus tenuirostris) , besides "rookeries'' 
of the Gannet {Sula serrator) and White-breasted Cormorant 
{Phalacrocorax gouldi), with nesting-grounds of many other 
birds. A list of 54 species " seen and identified " is given. 
116. Loring on Birds from Alaska. 
[Notes on Mammals and Birds observed in Soutlieru Alaska in 190L 
By J. Aldeu Loring. Sixth Ann. Hep. New York Zool, Soc. 1902, 
p. 145.] 
Mr. Loring's journey to Alaska in 1901 was undertaken in 
order to provide living animals for the Zoological Society's 
Park at New York, to which he is attached as '^ Field- 
Agent." But at his principal station at Cook Inlet, on 
the southern coast of Alaska, and elsewhere he managed to 
make observations on certain mammals and birds that he met 
with, which are recorded in this paper. The birds noticed 
