Tiici'nthj published Ornithological Works. 553 



69. Meneguux on Tiro new Bolivian Birds. 



[Descriptions de deux formes nouvelles d'Oiseaiix rappoit(5s de la 

 Boliviepar la Mission de Cr»?qui-Moutfort. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. 

 Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 1908, no. 7, p. 310.J 



The birds described as new are Agriornis andecola paznce, 

 from a specimen obtained on the road from Pazna to 

 Urmiri, at an elevation of 3694 metres, and Brachyspiza 

 capensis pulacayensis from Pulacayu and Pazna, at a height of 

 abont 4200 metres. We may remark that it is absurd, in our 

 opinion, to call an American bird " capensis," the law of 

 common-sense being more obligatory than that of priority. 

 The so-called " Brachyspiza capensis " is our old friend 

 Zonotrichia pileata, one of the commonest and widely dif- 

 fused birds in South America. 



70. North on the Nesting-site of Gerygone personata. 



[Notes on the Nestinp^-site of Gerygone personata Gould. By Alfred 

 J. North. Rec. Austr. Mus. vii. No. 3 (1908).] 



" Of the many stratagems used by l>ircls to secure 

 immunity from harm no more ingenious device is there 

 than that of the Masked Bush- Warbler, which nearly always 

 builds its hooded, dome-shaped nest close to a wasps' nest." 



An excellent photograph of a nest of this bird and of the 

 adjoining wasps' nest, taken in the scrub near Somerset, 

 Cape York, in October 1907, illustrates this remarkable 

 habit. 



71. North on Australian Bower-birds. 



[Notes on Newton's Bower-bird and the Tooth-billed Buwer-bird. 

 By A. J. North. Vict. Nat. xxv. p. 160 (1909).] 



In this paper, which was read before the Field Naturalists' 

 Club of Victoria on the 18th of January last, Mr. North 

 gives us much information concerning iw o of the rarest and 

 most interesting of the Australian Bower-birds, Prionodura 

 newtoniana and Scenopoctes dentirostris. 



Newton's Bower-bird was described by Mr. De Vis in 

 1883, but it was not until November 1908 that its nesting- 

 place was discovered "by Mr. George Sharp's black boys" in 



