Ornithological Literature of 1870. 459 



the eggs of all of them being given in a Table. The illustra- 

 tions are sketches, sometimes of nests alone and sometimes of 

 the positions in which they were found. Thus we have draw- 

 ings of the nests of Halcyon vagans, Acanthiza chlorHs, Petroica 

 macrocephula, Podiceps hectori, Rhipidura jlabellifera, and Bo- 

 taurus pcecilopterus on plate 4. ; those of Anthornis melanura, 

 MoJwua ochrocephala, Zosterops lateralis, and Sphericeacus puncta- 

 tus on plate 5 ; and on plate 6 those of Prosthemadera novce 

 seelandice and Genjgone assimilis. 



Pouch ET, A. 



Transformation des Nids de I'Hirondelle de Fenetre (Hirundo 



urbica, L.). Compt. Rend. Ixx. 1870, pp. 492-196. 

 Translated in Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, v. pp. 307-308. 

 Relates to a supposed alteration in the structure of Martins' 

 nests as observed in Rouen. See Noulet. 



QuisTORP, Dr. 



Ornitholog. Mittheilungen aus Neu-Yorpominern. J. fiir Orn. 

 1870, pp. 207-214. 



Reichenow, Ant. 



1. Ph. L. Martin, Die Praxis der NaturgeschicJite. J. fiir 

 Orn. 1870, pp. 380-382. 



A short review of this work. 



2. Ueber die Bedeutung der Eier-Muasse. J. fiir Orn. 1870, 

 pp. 385-392. 



Gives the extreme measurements of the eggs of a number of 

 European birds. 

 See also Cabanis. 



Reinhardt, J. 



Bidrag til Kundskab om Fuglefaunuen i Brasiliens Campos. 

 Vidensk. Medd. Nat. For. 1870, pp. 1-267, t. viii. 



The collections formed by the author and Dr. P. W. Lund 

 between the years 1833-1835 in the Brazilian provinces of Sao 

 Paulo, Goyaz, and Minas Geraes, Lagoa Santa being one of the 

 principal stations, constitute the materials upon which this 

 l)aper is based. As a summary of the birds occupying the 

 campos or open country of Brazil, it wdl prove a valuable con- 



