THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 191 
M. Mapleson. Contributions by Mr. Allan McCulloch com- 
prise ‘‘Studies in Australian Crustacea, No. 2,’’ and ‘Studies 
in Australian Fishes, No. 2’’ (two plates and text figures). A 
paper, ‘‘Description of the Female, with Nest and Eggs, of 
the Cinnamon-chested Ground Thrush’’ (plate), appears 
under the name of Mr. A. J. North. Lastly, Mr. W. W. 
Thorpe contributes a short but interesting paper on ‘‘Abori- 
ginal Drawings in Rock-Shelters at Bundanoon’? (two 
plates). Part 1 of ‘‘Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 
N.S.W. for 1909” contains, in addition to the Presidential 
address by Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc., ‘‘Notes on 
the Geology of the Mt. Flinders and Fassifern Districts, 
Queensland,’’ by Dr. H. I. Jenson (pls. i.-vi.); ‘‘Notes on 
Australian Coleoptera, with Descriptions of New Species 
of Tenebrionidae,”’ by Mr. H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. (text 
figs.); and ‘‘The Geology of the Canoblas Mountains,’’ by 
Mr. C. A. Sussmilch, F.G.S., and Dr. H. I. Jenson (pls. 
yii.-ix.) In Part 2 of the same publication, Mr. R. J. Till- 
yard, M.A., F.E.S., continues his “Studies of our Native 
Dragon-flies,’’ there being three papers by him: (1) ‘On 
Some Rare Australian Gomphinae, with Description of New 
Species’”’ (pls. xxii.-xxiii.); ‘Studies in the Life-histories of 
Australian Odowata—l. The Life-history of  Petalura 
gigantea, Leach” (pl. xxiv.); and Il. ‘‘The Life-history of 
Diphtlebia lestoides, Sely”’ (pl. xxxtii.). Mr. Thos. G. 
Sloane publishes the ‘‘Second Supplement to the Cicindelidae 
of Australia”; and Dr. A. J. Turner, F.E.S., a paper on 
“New Australian Lepidoptera belonging to the Family 
Noctuidae.’’ Amongst papers interesting to botanists, 
there are ‘‘Notes on Native Flora of New South Wales, Part 
vii., Eastern Monaro,’’ by Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.S., and 
‘‘Notes from the Botanic Gardens, No. 14,’’ by Messrs. J. 
H. Maiden and E. Betche. 
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“TAGGING” OR MARKING OF BIRDS. 
In the April number of ‘‘The Auk,’’ Mr. L. J. Cole con- 
tributes a paper on the importance of ‘‘tagging,’’ or mark- 
ing, birds as a means of studying their movements. The 
author points out we are still nearly as much in the dark as 
regards migration as was the case a century ago. Most of 
the knowledge gleaned up to the present on this question 
has been gained by studying mass movements, so that we are 
ignorant of the wanderings of individual birds. “‘It is truly 
wonderful,’? says Mr. Cole, ‘‘that birds can wing 
their way from the region where they breed to a far dis- 
tant land, and wonderful that: birds can wing their way 
back again to the same region. But how much more won- 
