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and Certhionyw variegatus (pi.), most of them with eggs. He 

 also discovered the bower, nest, and eggs of Chlamydodera 

 guttata (pis.). Of these and their surroundings a most in- 

 teresting account is given, while the whole paper abounds 

 with information on the ways, and especially the nesting- 

 habits, of the rarer species. 



The April part is continued by articles on the stomach- 

 contents, parasitic worms, and protozoa, of 57 native birds 

 by Dr. J. 13. Cleland ; on the Mallee country by Mr. F. E. 

 Howe ; on Manorhina melanophrys by Mr. F. E. Wilson ; 

 on the Satin Bower-Bird by Mr. C. F. Cole ; on the birds of 

 Parry's Creek, N.W.A., by Mr. Mathews ; and on those of 

 Drouin, Gippsland, by Mr. I. Batey. 



Of new species we have in the three parts descriptions of 

 Eopsaltria jacksoni (p. 70) with a coloured plate of bird, nest, 

 and young, from the Herberton Range (cf. ' Emu,' viii. p. 284, 

 ix. p. 246), and of Acanthiza flaviventris from Lake Frome, 

 S.A.. (p. 137) ; while attention is drawn (p. 173) to others 

 recently described in the ' Victorian Naturalist/ and one is 

 withdrawn (p- 163). 



86. Festa on Birds from Darien and Ecuador. 



[Nel Darein e nell' Ecuador. Diario di viaggio di un Naturalista. 

 Dr. E. Festa. 1 vol. 397 pp.] 



The author has kindly sent us a copy of this work, which 

 has no bookseller's name attached to it, and appears to have 

 been privately printed. Dr. E. Festa is a well-known and 

 energetic traveller and naturalist, who has sent a large series 

 of zoological specimens to the Museum of Turin, where they 

 have been studied and described by Couut Salvadori. In 

 Darien Dr. Festa obtained £02 specimens belonging to 

 122 species, among which was a new Tanager (Rhampho- 

 coelus festa) , named by Salvadori after its discoverer*. But 

 a much more extensive collection was made during his 

 longer sojourn in Ecuador, where 2892 specimens of birds 



* Bol. Mus. Torino, vol. xii. p. 219 (1896). 



