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five nests of the Waxwiug (Ampelis garrulus). He gives a 

 charming plate of the young of six species of Ducks, one of 

 which, the Buffie-head, is an occasional visitor to our islands. 

 Mr. Austin H. Clarke, who has already given a list of the 

 birds of the island of Margarita, Venezuela, now furnishes 

 some interesting notes on the habits of the species observed 

 in that locality; and in the October number (p. 398) 

 discusses the forms of the Black-winged Palm Tanager. 

 Mr. William Brewster sends some further notes on Vireo 

 philadelphicus, and illustrates them with a very pretty sketch 

 of the nest and eggs. The island of Laysan is well known as 

 the breeding-place of countless sea-birds, but Mr. Walter K. 

 Fisher's notes on the more terrestrial species will be new to 

 many of our readers. That a strong-billed Finch (Tetespiza 

 cantans) should peck a hole in a Tern's egg was hardly to be 

 expected, and still less that a Rail (Porzanula palmeri) lying 

 in wait until the egg was perforated, should then drive away 

 the Finch and appropriate the spoil. Photogravures of these 

 performances, as well as of the nests of these and other 

 species, are given. Mr. Robert E. Snodgrass has notes, with 

 illustrations, on the anatomy of Geospiza and Certhidea — 

 two genera which are characteristic of the Galapagos, — and 

 also of Cocornis, a genus known only from Cocos, a small 

 island lying off the Gulf of Panama, about four degrees 

 north of the Equator. The results of several visits to some 

 large and well-preserved colonies of the Herring-Gull on the 

 Maine coast are described, with beautiful illustrations, by 

 Messrs. W. Dutcher and W. J. Baily— H. S. 



4. ' Avicultural Magazine/ 



[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. New 

 Series. Vol. i. No. 11. 1903.] Of. Ibis, 1903, p. 607. 



The present number contains an article by Mr. D. Seth- 

 Smith on the Racket-tailed Parrot (Prioniturus platurus) 

 with a coloured figure, an account of the Australian Honey- 

 eaters by Mr. A. J. Campbell, a record by Mr. R. Phillipps 

 of the nesting of the Waxwiug in an aviary belonging to 

 Mr. St. Quintin, and other contributions. It is interesting 



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