THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 51 
Tue AvustRALIAN ZooLocist.—This is a new publi- 
cation issued by the Council of the Royal Zoological So- 
ciety of New South Wales. ‘The first part has made its 
appearance, and includes several papers dealing with 
zoological subjects, both of a technical nature and others 
of more general interest. Mr. A. F. Basset Hull advo- 
cates the need for more strict laws to protect our native 
birds and provide sanctuaries for them, pointing out what 
is being done in this direction jn other countries. Mr. W. 
W. Froggatt makes some interesting notes on the habits 
of birds in the north-western part of New South Wales, 
-while Mr. A. Gale describes the breeding habits of the 
Purple-striped Gudgeon. 
A highly interesting paper by Mr. L. Harrigon refers 
to the Mallophaga or Birdlice as possibly affording clues 
to bird phylogeny, it being suggested that the parasites, 
having altered less than their hosts over a long period 
of time, indicate the relationships of several groups of birds 
more clearly than the hosts themselves.. Other more tech- 
nical papers are contributed by several authors. 
The large size (quarto) of the page, and the good 
quality of the paper, are important items. of the publi- 
cation, and make it specially suitable for the intercalation 
of figures with the text. The first part is well illustrated. 
and leaves no doubt that the Australian Zoologist will 
be a useful addition to our scientific literature. 
RR 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
HARDENBERGIA.—At the August meeting Mr. E. Cheel 
exhibited fresh-flowering specimens of Hardenbergia from 
Hill Top, New South Wales, which, he stated, were iden- 
tical with the species figured in Bot. Mag. tab. 2169, under 
the name Kennedya ovata, which is included by Bentham 
in Fl. Aust., Vol. 2, under Hardenbergia monophylla, as 
a synonym. He also showed flowering examples of H. 
monophylla var rosea, an upright bush about two feet 
high without the trailing habit of the form common about 
Sydney. : 
Insects on Warrue TrREEs.—Whilst at Cook’s River 
on October 11th, 1918, I collected Nascioides carissima, 
Water (a small Buprestid), in numbers on the leaves of 
Acacia longifolia. The tree wag not in flower. 
EB. H. ZECK. ~ 
