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Cuculus solitarius really nest in the " trous des vieux arbres "? 

 If so, it is a most remarkable Cuckoo. Are the eggs of 

 Pogonorhynchus really spotted^ as stated p. 108, and figured 

 pi. xxix. fig. 3 ? Does the Tufted Umbrette in Senegambia 

 lay such eggs as are figured in plate xxiv. ? If so, former 

 excellent authorities on this subject have been egregiously 

 deceived. Dr. Rochebrune seems to be well pleased with his 

 coloured plates, and there is, indeed, much spirit in some of 

 the drawings ; but the colouring is, in some cases, awful. 

 Nor can we see any use or excuse for such barbarisms as 

 '' Strigi "tl " Columbi " ! " Steganopodi " \ &c. Dr. Roche- 

 brune's hallucinations as regards Nitzsch and the aftershaft 

 have been already treated of by Mr. Beddard (Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 19), so we need say nothing more on this part of the sub- 

 ject, except that our author appears to be too great a patriot 

 to allow that anything good can come out of Germany. 



102. Saunders's Edition of ' YarreU's British Birds.' 



[A History of British ]3irds. By the late William Yarrell, V.P.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Fourth Edition. Revised to the end of the Second Volume by 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. ; continued by Howard Saunders, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Parts XXIX. & XXX. 1885.] 



Parts XXIX. and XXX. conclude the Ducks and Mer- 

 gansers and the entire work. A short preface to Vol. III. 

 contains some remarks on the species which have been added 

 to the British list during the progress of this edition, and 

 not figured or fully described in it. 



103. Sharpe on the Fringilliformes. 



[Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds, in the Collection of 

 the British Museum. Fringilliformes : Part I., containing the Familiea 

 Dicseidse, Hirundinidae, Ampelidse, Mniotiltidie, and Motacillidse. By 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe. London : 1885. 682 pp., 12 coloured plates.] 



Mr. Sharpens unrivalled energy has already produced 

 another contribution to the British Museum Catalogue 

 of Birds, which has thus reached its tenth volume. Mr. 

 Sharpe now commences the great group of nine-primaried 

 Oscines — the ''Tanagroid Passeres'^ of Wallace, which he 



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