166 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



11. Lloyd on the Nesting of Guianan Birds. 



[Nesting of some Guiana Birds. By C, A. Lloyd. Timebii, vol. xi. 

 n. s., p. 1. 1897.] 



Mr. Lloyd^ having been assisted on the present occasion 

 bj Mr. Barshall — " a keen observer of Nature, who has 

 resided for over twenty years among the Indian tribes in the 

 interior/' — gives us a series of most interesting but too short 

 notes on the nesting- habits of some of the Guianan birds, 

 Tityra cayana deposits its eggs in the mounds made by 

 termites ! Crypturus variegatus makes no nest, but deposits 

 its single egg on the ground at random ; whereas another 

 Tinamoo [Tinamus subcristutus) lays 8 or 10 eggs in a 

 shallow nest lined with dry leaves. Psophia crepitans was 

 f and nesting in a hole in the fork of a tree, 20 feet from the 

 ground, and had laid seven dirty-white eggs, a trifle smaller 

 than those of the Common Fowl {cj. Blaauw, Bull. B.O.C. 

 V. p. xviii). Mr. Barshall confirms Dr. Goeldi^s discovery of 

 the parasitism of Cassidix oryzivora, and says that it deposits 

 its eggs in the nests of Cassicus affinis and C. pei^sicus. 

 Mr. Lloyd has himself taken the eggs of this bird from the 

 nests of Ostinops decumanus. According to Mr. Barshall, the 

 burrows of the Armadillo and Paca [Cmlogenys paca) are 

 resorted to by the Red-billed PufF-bird [Monacha nigra) as 

 nesting-places. The Scarlet Ibis {Eudocimus ruber) makes 

 no nest foi- itself, but takes forcible possession of the nest of 

 the Small White Egret {Ardea candidissima) . Verily there 

 is much yet to be learned of the queer ways of the birds of the 

 Neotropical Region. 



12. Madardsz on Birds from New Guinea. 



[Sammel-ergebnisse Ludwig Biros in Neu-Guinea. Vogel. Bearbeitet 

 von Dr. Julius v. Madarasz. Term. Fiiz. xx. p. 17. 1897.] 



To fill the place vacated by the death of Fenichel (see Ibis, 

 1894, p. 548), the authorities of the Hungarian National 

 Museum have sent out another naturalist^ Ludwig Biro, to 

 Kaiser-Wilhelm's Land to continue the researches which 

 Fenichel commenced. Dr. v. Madanisz now gives us an 



