116 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



visitor in this locality, and builds a gourd-shaped nest, with 

 a side entrance, in the low oak-bushes_, apparently somewhat 

 in the style of jEgithalus pendiilinus. As in that species^ the 

 eggs are pure white. 



8. Berlepsch on new or rare Birds from Bogota. 



[BescLreibung eines ueuen Colibri und Bemerkungen iiber eine Col- 

 lection von Vogel-balgen aus der Umgegend von Sta. Fe de Bogota in 

 Colombia. Von Hans v. Berlepsch. Zeitschr. f. Orn. 1887, p. 177]. 



Graf V. Berlepsch gives an account of a collection of about 

 200 bird-skins lately received by Herr Nehrkorn, of Riddags- 

 haiisen, direct from Bogota. It contained a single example of 

 a new Humming-bird, Cyanolesbia nehrkorni, already shortly 

 characterized (J. f. O. 1887, p. 326), but now more fully de- 

 scribed and figured. It also contained an example of another 

 Humming-bird of the genus Bourcieria, which the author 

 refers doubtfully to B. assimilis, Elliot, said to be from 

 Ecuador, but at the same time provides with a second name, 

 in case of need, " B. excellens." This is also figured. This 

 species comes nearest to B. prunellei. Graf v. Berlepsch 

 then proceeds to describe a dark variety of Chrysolampis mos- 

 quitus as a possibly new species, " C. infiimatus,'^ and to 

 make remarks on Pyrrhopheena iodura and Agyrtria viri- 

 dissima terjma. A complete list of the 91 species represented 

 in the collection is added. In the footnotes to this list the 

 Bogota form of Helidoxa leadbeateri is distinguished as H. I. 

 parvula, and the Bogota form of Chrysuronia oenone as C. ce. 

 longirostris. 



9. R. Blasius on the Birds of Brunswick, 



[Die Vogelwelt der Stadt Braunscbweig und ilirer nachsten Umgebung. 

 Von Dr. Rudolf Blasius. Jakresb. Ver. f. Naturw. zu Braunschweig, v. 

 p. 50.] 



Dr. Budolf Blasius gives us an account of his long and 

 intimate acquaintance with the birds of his native city of 

 Brunswick and the surrounding district. A previous paper 

 on the same subject was prepared by the same author in 

 1862, and printed in the 'Journal fiirOrnithologie.* Twenty 



