470 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



70. Madardsz on new Birth. 



[(1) Drei neue Palsearctiscne Vogelarten. Von Dr. Julius v. Madarasz. 

 Ann. Nat. Mus. Hungar. 1903, pp. 559, 560. 



(2) Ueber none Formen von Halcyon smyrnensis unci Alcedo ispida, 

 II. op. cit. 1904, pp. 1,2. 



(3) Neue Vogelarten aua Venezuela. Id. t. c. pp. 115, lit! (pi.). 



(4) Zur Ornis Deutsch-Oatafrikas. Id. t. c. pp. 203 200.] 



Dr. Madardsz lias sent us four short papers in which, 

 besides new forms of Kingfishers, he treats of twelve new 

 species from various parts of the world. Merit /a algira, 

 from the north-east coast of Algiers, approaches the Canary 

 Island M. Cabrera, hut only the male is known; Cinclus 

 kiharti, from the Krasnoiarsk district, lies between C. sor- 

 didus and C. bilkevitchi : C; caucasicus, from the Caucasus, 

 is near C. cashmeriensis ; Thryothorus consobrinus, Strix 

 stictica, and Eupsychortyx horvdthi (col. pi.) come from 

 Merida in Venezuela, and are placed next to T. genibarbis, 

 S. fammea, and E. cristatus respectively ; German East 

 Africa furnishes, through M. Katona, Cluetups kilimensis 

 from Moschi, Cisticola katona from Boma-Gomb, C. picli- 

 pennis from Moschi, CMorophoneus miniatus from Kiboscho, 

 Laniarius ambiguus from Kiboscho and Moschi, Prodotiscus 

 reichenowi from Moschi. Elainea gularis and Dendrexetastes 

 berlepschi (Ann. Nat. Mus. Hungar. 1903) are now reduced 

 to synonyms of Mecoccrculus sitophagoides (Bp.) and 

 Dendrocolaptes validus (Tsch.) respectively. 



77. North on Hie Xest of a Bower-bird. 



[Description of the Nest of the Guttated Bower-bird, Chlamydodera 

 guttata. By A. J. North. C.M.Z.S. Bee. Austr. Mus. vol. v. pt. 2 

 (1903).] 



Mr. North describes and figures the nest of Chlamydodera 

 guttata obtained at Illamurta, Central Australia, by Mr. C. 

 E. Cowle. Only two instances had been previously recorded. 

 The eggs have been described and figured in the second 

 part of the ' Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in 

 Australia and Tasmania/ 



