570 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
written, and often excellent, though even these might with 
advantage be shorter in the case of some of the commoner 
species. The nest and eggs are the special province of 
Mr. Jourdain, and the migration falls chiefly to Mr. Thomson, 
but no invariable rule is adopted, and Messrs. Pycraft and 
Bonhote between them contribute several articles. A 
pleasing feature in the book is the introduction of pretty 
photographs of nests with their surroundings and often with 
the parent birds;, while the coloured plates of eggs by 
Mr. Gronvold are excellent. About the other coloured 
plates, which are fanciful and unnatural, the less said the 
better. 
75. Mathews on the Birds of Australia. 
[The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. i. pt. 3, 
London : Witherby & Co., April 1911.] 
This part of Mr. Mathews's fine work concludes the 
Pigeons, all of which are figured except Geophaps short- 
ridgei (which the author believes to be a hybrid between 
G. tranquilla and G. cuneata) and Lophophaps leucogaster. 
The genera treated are Chalcophaps (with the species 
C. chrysochlora and the subspecies C. longirostris ), Phaps 
(P. elegans and P. ch atcopter a ), Histriophaps ( H . histrionica ), 
Petrophassa (P. albipennis and P. rufipennis ), Geophaps 
(G. script a and G. smithii), Lophophaps ( L . ferruginea, 
L. plumifera, and its subspecies L. p. leucogaster ), Ocyphaps 
(0. lophotes ), and Leucosarcia (L. melanoleuca ). The last- 
named has its name changed from L. picata , in accordance 
with Mr. Mathews's views on strict priority. Moreover, he 
considers the Chalcophaps occidentalis of North identical with 
C. longirostris of Gould, while he corrects the locality of the 
original describer in such cases as Phaps chalcoptera. We 
notice that the names on some of the plates do not correspond 
with the letterpress, but we understand that the plates were 
printed off in advance and that corrections in the text were 
inevitable. The same may be said with regard to the colours 
of the soft parts, where further information has been pro¬ 
cured. Petrophassa rufipennis is only the second Australian 
