472 Recently published Ornithological Works, 
breeding birds are more strictly enforced^ tlie days of several 
of the most interesting species will soon be numbered^ if they 
be not already told. The Roseate Tern, of which there was 
a numerous colony in Selby'’s time, Mr. Gurney tells us may 
exist; whilst the Sandwich Tern, few in number according 
to Selby, but numerous some twenty years ago when we 
saw them, seem now again on the wane, owing to senseless 
persecution. 
Cannot our northern brethren do something to render the 
protection of the birds on these islands more efficient ? An 
effort should surely be made, as no other sea-bird breeding- 
station in England can show half the interest of the Eern 
Islands. 
55. ^Proceedings^ of the Linnean Society of New South 
Wales. 
We have omitted to notice several ornithological papers 
published in parts 3 and 4 of vol. i. of the ^ Proceedings ^ of 
the Linnean Society of New South Wales. The following 
are their titles :— 
(1) List of Australian Game Birds and other Species 
which should be protected by the ^ Game Preservation Act,’ ” 
by E. Pierson Ramsay, i. p. 182. 
(2) Remarks on a supposed new Species of Poephila/’ 
by E. Pierson Ramsay, L c. p. 197. 
(3) Remarks on the large number of Game Birds which 
have of late been offered for sale in Sydney,” by E. Pierson 
Ramsay, 1. c. p. 215. 
(4) ^^Note on Poephila gouldcs^^ by E. Pierson Ramsay, 
1. c. p. 281. 
(5) Note of a Collection of Birds from New Britain, New 
Ireland, and Duke-of-York Islands, with some Remarks 
on the Zoology of the Group,” by E. Pierson Ramsay, 1. c. 
p. 369. 
(6) On a Collection of Birds from the Norman River, 
Gulf of Carpentaria,” by M. Le Comte de Castelnau, Consul 
General of France, and E. Pierson Ramsay, 1. c, p. 379. 
(7) Notes on a Collection of Birds from Port Moresby, 
with Descriptions of new Species,” by E. Pierson Ramsay, 
1. c> p. 386. 
