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48. McGregor s f Manual of Philippine Birds. } 
[A Manual of Philippine Birds. By Richard 0. McGregor. Parti. 
Galliformes to Eurylsemiformes. Manila, 1909. 8vo, 412 pp.] 
Much has been written about the attractive Avifauna of 
the Philippine Archipelago, and from time to time several 
Lists of the species belonging to it have been published. 
But this is the first attempt at a regular account of it 
accompanied by descriptions, and is the more valuable as the 
literature of the subject is widely scattered over various 
periodicals, some of which are not easy of access. The work 
is based mainly upon the Collection of Birds belonging to 
the Bureau of Science of Manila, which contains about 
8000 specimens. 
The general arrangement followed is that of Sharpe’s 
‘ Hand-list/ and, like that work, it begins with the lower 
forms of Bird-life. The present part contains an account of 
the Orders from the Galliformes up to the Eurylsemiformes, 
and treats of 378 species. We observe with some satis¬ 
faction that the author is a strict Binomialist, and does not 
find it necessary to employ three names for a species in any 
case. 
The Philippine Ornis is eminently worthy of study, because 
it presents a curious mixture of Oriental and Palsearctic 
forms, and because it contains numerous instances of 
representative species in the various Islands which belong 
to it. On these points, however, we will defer further 
remarks until the issue of the second portion of the work, 
which, we believe, is nearly ready. 
49. Matheivs on the Birds of Australia. 
[The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. With hand- 
coloured plates. Vol. i. pt. 2. London : Jan. 81st, 1911. Witherby & Co.] 
The second part of this new work does not lend itself to a 
lengthy review, as, besides Pedionomus , it only comprises the 
Pigeons of the families Treronidce and Columbidce. But we 
may remark that the fine plates are quite up to the standard 
set in the beginning, and are again from the pencil of 
Keulemans. The letterpress can hardly be expected to 
contain much new information about these birds, yet 
