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Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Australia from the north-east, but that a few of the genera 
(such as Mirafra , Pomatostomus , and Xerophila) arrived by 
an ancient bridge that formerly connected Timor with the 
Australian continent. 
These views are fully explained in the present paper, and 
accompanied by tables of the genera on which they are 
based. 
73. Jackson on the Game-birds of East Africa. 
[Game-birds of the East-Africa and Uganda Protectorates. By F. J. 
Jackson. Journ. E. Afr. and Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. i. p. 60.] 
We are glad to receive a copy of the second number * of 
this newly-established Society’s Journal. The Fauna and 
Flora of our new Protectorates are so rich, and their physical 
features are so varied, that there is an enormous field of 
work for those who take an interest in Natural History. 
Mr. Jackson, than whom we suppose no one is better 
acquainted with the Birds of British East Africa and Uganda, 
continues in a second paper his account of the “ Game¬ 
birds 99 of these countries. Under this title are included 
members of four different groups—-Quails, Guinea-fowls, 
Hemipodes, and Sand-Grouse, which altogether number 
18 species in East Africa. To these should be added the 
16 Francolins described by Mr. Jackson in his first article 
on this subject, which makes the so-called “ Game-birds 99 of 
East Africa 34 in number. 
74. Kirkman on British Birds. 
[The British Bird Book. Edited by F. B. Kirkman. London and 
Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack. Sections ii.-iv.] 
The three parts of this quarto publication now before us 
contain the Buntings, Larks, Wagtails, Pipits, the Creeper, 
the Wren, the Dipper, the Thrushes, the Warblers, the 
Hedge-Sparrow, the Starlings, the Oriole, and the Waxwing. 
The descriptions by Mr. Pycraft are, as usual, good, if rather 
long for the tyro, and the life-histories of the birds are well 
* Of 1 Ibis,’ 1910, p. 748. 
