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of Java, upon the nests and eggs of certain Javan birds. The 

 account of the nidification of the Tree- Swifts {Denclrochelidon 

 klecho) is novel and strange. The nest resembles in form and 

 materials that of the little Collocalia or Edible-bird's-nest Swift, 

 but is still smaller and flatter ! It is a semicircular structure, and 

 is affixed to a small naked horizontal branch high up in a tree, 

 the branch forming the flat side of the nest. The walls, scarcely 

 thicker than parchment, are made of feathers, tree- mosses, and 

 bits of bark, cemented together by the viscous saliva of the bird. 

 The nest, which contains a single perfectly oval egg, is so small, 

 that the bird (as repeatedly observed by Dr. Bernstein) sits upon 

 the branch and only covers it with her belly. 



Henicurus leschenaulti builds on the ground, near water, with 

 moss and dead leaves, and lays two eggs, greenish or yellowish- 

 white, spotted with rufous. 



We also strongly recommend the perusal of Herr Eug. von 

 Homeyer's communication, " Ueber einige zweifelhafte Arten 

 der europaischen Oruis.^^ 



Dr. Bolle will find, in the last Number of our Journal, some 

 remarks by Mr. Salvin (p. 361) confirmatory of his theory of 

 the oophagy of the Rallidce. We beg leave also to refer Herr 

 Schiiter to our last year's volume for some important contribu- 

 tions to the discussion as to the mode of reproduction of 

 Oxylophus glandarius. 



The first number of the * Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des 

 Naturalistes de Moscou ' for 1859 contains an article * by Baron 

 R. Konig-Warthausen, on the nesting of the Warblers of the 

 division Hypolais, which will be of interest to European ornitho- 

 logists. The species treated of as belonging to this group are the 

 following: — (1.) H. glivetorum, nests in Greece (Lindermayer 

 and Von der Miihle) : (2.) II. salicaria {Motacilla hippolais, 

 Linn. ; H. icterina, Degland ; H. luscinoides, Landbek), nests in 

 Wiirtemburg and Southern Germany, as observed by the 

 author: (3.) H. cinerascens, Selys {H. pallida, Gavhc ; H.ari- 



* "Zur Fortpflanzungsgeschiohte der Spottsai\ger." Hull. Acad. Nat. 

 xxxii. p. 238. 



