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association which can at this time issue a local faunal list running 

 into six hundred pages, and to plenty of energy on the part of its 

 compiler, who is Professor of Biology in Nottingham University 

 College. 



The lists of Invertebrates contained in it' are the outcome of a 

 Jubilee Fund raised by the Society in 1902, and of vigorous systematic 

 field work taken up with this object. " It does not pretend," says 

 Professor Carr, "to be more than a contribution towards the fuller 

 knowledge of the Invertebrate animals of the county, but it will at 

 any rate be of use in showing what has been accomplished and what 

 remains to be done," and he hopes that its publication will stimulate 

 others to take up the study of the Nottinghamshire local fauna. 

 Great care has been taken to have the specimens concerned named 

 by special authorities on the several groups, and the notes as to first 

 occurrence, abundance, or otherwise, under the various species are, 

 or may be in the future, sometimes of more than local interest. It is 

 interesting, for instance, though rather depressing, to read under the 

 heading of Aphantopus hyperanthus (the Einglet) that _ it, like many 

 other butterflies, has disappeared from districts in the county where 

 it was formerly common. 



The Emu, vol. xv, Nos. 2 and 3, October, 1915, and January, 1916. 

 Melbourne: Walker, May & Co.; European Agents, Witherby& 

 Co., London. 4s. each. 



We have pleasure in welcoming these, the first numbers of the 

 ' Australian Ornithologists' Union's Quarterly ' which have reached 

 us for review, and find considerable interest in some of the papers, 

 such as Mr. A. H. Chisholm's notes on the Yellow-bellied Shrike-Tit 

 (Falcimctchis frontatus), which is illustrated by photos of the nest, a 

 very deep cup built among twigs, made chiefly of the inner bark of 

 eucalyptus. This is a quite unusual sort of nest to anyone used to our 

 Tits ; but tearing at bark is all in the day's work for this bird, whose 

 remarkably powerful and shrike-like bill is used largely for ham- 

 mering and tearing at bark, not for aggression on other birds ; 

 indeed, it seems the introduced Sparrows follow these Tits — which 

 are much larger than our Great Tit — and dash in to steal some of the 

 results of their work. The curious name of Yellow-hammer has been 

 given to these birds, just as it has been in America to a Woodpecker, 

 the Flicker (Colaptes aiiratus), for both birds hammer, and show 

 yellow in tbeir plumage, and the colonists had evidently forgotten all 

 about our Yellow-hammer but the name. x\n interesting little note 



