15C) Shoi't Notices of Ornltlioloijlcal Pahlicalions. 



dull yellow beak with a black spot on the end of it, and 

 ■without the shield o£ scaly feathers on the head. The White- 

 browed Weaver (^Ploceipasser mahali) Ca])tain Horsbruoh 

 found very pugnacious in the aviary. 



This number also contains a short sketch, " A Morning's 

 Bird-nesting on the Nile.'' 



The June number contains an article on the Maiden Dove 

 (Chalcopelia puella), by Dr. A. G. Butler, illustrated by a 

 coloured plate. 



The July number contains " Some Notes on the Sacred 

 Ibis,'' by Michael J. Nicoll, M.B.O.U. This is a short 

 account of a visit to Dassen Island by the Earl of Crawford's 

 yacht the ' Valhalla.-" Mr. Nicoll thinks that the stories 

 told of the young Ibises killing the young Cormorants and 

 devouring their entrails is apparently quite true, as all the 

 young Ibises when first handled disgorged a mass of entrails. 

 The article is illustrated by a photograph of two half-grown 

 Ibises. A. H. 



3. ' The Avicultural Magadne,' August, Sc[)tem)jer, and 

 October, 1906. 



The August number contains a lengthy paper on the 

 Violet-eared Waxbill {EstrUdd granatina), by Reginald 

 Phillips, illustrated by a well-coloured plate of a male and 

 female by Gronvold. W^e are pleased to find the author 

 likes the song of the male : " the low-voiced song, floating 

 softly on the air, often reminds me of our Skylark warbling 

 so sweetly high up in the heavens." The author appears to 

 doubt Dr. Symond's remarks in the Journal, vol. ii. p. 27, 

 regarding these birds occasionally consorting together in 

 flocks, on the strength of the " nature of the species so far 

 as it has been developed and displayed in my aviary." 

 Dr. Symonds has been in Kroonstad since 1879 and ought 

 to know their habits, if anyone does, as they are very far 

 from uncommon there, as the writer knows from personal 

 observations. 



The same number contains an article on the Ijreedin"; 



