Recently published Ornithological Works. 681 



109. Fatio on the Birds of Switzerland. 



[Faune des Vertebras de la Suisse. Par Victor Fatio. Vol. II. OLseaux. 

 Ire Partie, Rapaces, Grimpeurs, Percheurs, Bailleurs et Passereaux. 

 Avec 3 Plauches liors texts, dont 2 en couleurs, 1 carte geographique 

 colorize, 13.5 figures dans le texte, dont 127 originales, et 26 tableaux. 

 Geneve et Bale : Georg & Co., 1899.] 



We welcome the first iustalmeut of a complete aud up-to- 

 date work on the avifauna of Switzerland, from the pen of 

 our accomplished Foreign Member. The portion which 

 relates to the diurnal Raptores contains far more details than 

 those given in the treatise published in 1889 in collaboration 

 with Dr. T. Studer {cf. Ibis, 1889, p. 391), while all the rest 

 of the work will be absolutely new to our readers. Dr. Fatio 

 very properly places a note of query to such species as 

 the American Turdus solitarius, ascribed to Switzerland 

 by the credulous Degland and Gerbe ; but the occurrence of 

 T.fuscatus in Aarau, as a wanderer, is not improbable; and 

 the irregular ajjpearauce of Sylvia melanocephala near Geneva 

 might be expected. The figures in the text are adequate ; 

 the synoptical lists leave nothing to be desired, and there is 

 an excellent index. We shall be glad to see Part II., with 

 the coloured plates that have been unavoidably omitted from 

 this volume. 



110. Festa on the Breeding of a Curassow in Europe. 



[Allevamento della Crax panamensis in Piemonte. Del Enrico Festa. 

 Boll. Mus. Zool. Universita di Torino, xv. no. 361.] 



Dr. E. Festa, whose splendid collection of the birds of 

 Ecuador has recently been catalogued by Count Salvadori 

 {cf. Ibis, supra p. 559), brought home with him in 1898, 

 from Panama, a male and two females of Crax panamensis. 

 From eggs of one of these females laid in ]May 18S9 two 

 young birds were artificially hatched and successfully reared. 

 Dr. Festa describes their various changes of plumage. 



111. Finn on some Indian Weaver-birds. 



[Notes on tlie Ploceidce. By F. Finn. J. A. S. B. Ixviii. pt. 2, p. 250, 

 1899.] 



Mr. Finn has discovered that his supposed new Indian 



