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satisfactory account of the progress of this well-managed 

 Institution. The visitors in 1904 were 64,711, and the 

 receipts at the gates £E1388, shewing a considerable advance 

 in both cases. Mammals arc naturally the most prominent 

 objects in the Gardens, but birds are also numerous. The three 

 Shoe-bills (Baleeniceps rex) are, we are told, still thriving. 



Six additions arc made to the list of birds "observed wild 

 in the Gardens " given in former reports — namely, Monticola 

 cyanus, Muscicapa grisola, M. collaris, Coccothraustes vulgaris, 

 Cypselus apus, and Caprimulgus europmis. 



65. Hagmann on Brazilian Birds. 



[As Avea Brasilicas mencionadas e descriptas nas obras de Spix (1825), 

 de Wied (1830-33), Burmeister (1854), e Pelzeln (1874), na sua nomen- 

 clatura scientifica actual. Chave .<ynunyniica organisada pelo Dr. G. 

 Hagmann. Bui. Mus. Goeldi, iv. p. 198 (1904).] 



After an explanatory Preface by Dr. Goeldi, Dr. Hagmann 

 gives the names of the birds described in the four principal 

 works on Brazilian Ornithology (those of Spix, Neuwied, 

 Burmeister, and v. Pelzeln), together with the corresponding 

 names employed in the British Museum Catalogue for each of 

 the species. These, as a rule, appear to be correctly stated, 

 and the result cannot fail to be useful to students of the 

 birds of Brazil. 



66. Huber on th<> Nest of Ostinops decumanus. 



[Aiuda a proposito dos ninhos do Japu. Dr. .1. Huber. Bui. Mus. 

 Goeldi, iv. p. 471 (1904).] 



This is a further contribution to the controversy on the 

 question of what materials the nests of the Japu (Ostinops 

 decumanus) are made (see ' Ibis,' 1903, p. 633, and 1904, 

 p. 155). It does not, however, appear to alter materially 

 the results already arrived at in the previous papers on this 

 subject. 



67. 'Irish Naturalist.' 



[The Irish Naturalist. A Monthly Journal of General Irish Natural 

 History. Vol. xiii. Nos. 1-12 (1904). Eason & Sons, Dublin.] 



Among the notes on ornithology may be mentioned 



