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December 1907 till November 1908, and therefore was able 
to gain a much better insight into its Ornithology than John 
MacGillivray during the survey made in 1854, or Cheeseman 
at its annexation to New Zealand in 1887. Many and 
various are the points of interest, but we have only space 
here to refer specially to the Petrels of the genera Puffinus 
and (Estrelata, the synonymy and breeding-habits of which 
are discussed at full length. No one interested in the group 
can afford to ignore this article. The Tui was found to be 
abundant; while the European Song-Thrush, Blackbird, and 
Starling have reached Sunday Island and firmly established 
themselves there. Plates are given of the Crater Lake, the 
downy young of Sula cyanops, Phaethon erubescens , (Estrelata 
neglecta , and the nesting-places of the two latter. 
Dr. W. MacGillivray writes at length of an oologist’s 
holiday on the Barrier Bange near Broken Hill, N.S.W., 
where a great number of birds’ nests and eggs were 
examined, and continues his paper in the second part of the 
volume. Mr. G, M. Mathews publishes a list of seventeen 
additions to his ‘ Hand-list of the Birds of Australasia/ and 
in the October number continues his list of the Birds of 
North-West Australia, with notes on the colour of the bill, 
eyes, and so forth, and on the contents of the stomachs. 
In the two numbers we find a description by Mr. J. 
W. Mellor of a new form of Crow-Shrike, Strepera plumbea , 
from Eyre Peninsula, S. A., its nest and eggs ; and also of the 
hitherto unknown nests and eggs of Poecilodryas pulverulentus 
and Malurus dulcis from Napier Broome Bay by Mr. H. 
L. White ; while Mr. Mathews is again to the fore with 
a description of the type-specimen of Rhipidura phasianus 
De Vis, accompanied by a coloured plate. 
Distributional papers are well represented by those of 
Mr. A. F. Crossman (cont.),C. Gubanyi, and A. P. Ingle, on 
the Broome district, N. W. A., Sandy Creek, Riverina, N.S.W., 
and Merriman’s Creek, South Gippsland, respectively. 
In the October number Mr. S. W. Jackson furnishes a 
most interesting series of additional notes on the habits 
of the Tooth-billed Bower-bird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris ), 
