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these numbers as more important than another, since they 

 appeal differently to different classes of readers. Some deal 

 with the breeding of birds in captivity, some with foreign 

 travel,, others with individual genera or species. 



Mr. St. Quintin continues his avicultural successes, of 

 which the chief arc the nesting in his aviaries of the 

 Brush-Turkey and the Pine-Grosbeak ; Mrs. Johnstone has 

 succeeded for the first time with Sarcops calvvs in confine- 

 ment (pi.) ; Mr. Fasey writes on the breeding of Bourke's 

 Parrakeet, Mr. Wormald on that of the Tufted Duck; 

 Mr. Seth-Smith on the Green-winged Pigeons (Chalcophaps) ; 

 Mr. Meade-Waldo on Sand-Grouse (col. pi.); Dr. Butler on 

 Calopelia puella (col. pi.) ; Mr. Phillipps on Malurus cyaneus 

 and Merops apiaster ; Mr. Bonhote on Lophoiclinia isura (pi.) ; 

 Mr. Finn on eclipse plumage ; Mrs. Gregory on garden 

 pets (pi.) ; Mr. Percival on bird's-nesting by the Nile and 

 the Atbara ; Mr. Ingram on the Guacharo (pi.) ; and last, 

 but not least, Mr. Nicoll tells us of the successful importation 

 of the young of the Sacred Ibis to London (pi.) and of its 

 life on Dassen Island. The controversy on Aviaries v. Cages 

 still continues. 



106. Collett on Birds new to Norway. 



[Om en Del for Norges Fauna nye Fugle. By R. Collett. Chris- 

 tiania Vidensk.-Selsk. Forh. 1905, no. 10.] 



The author continues the records of birds new to his 

 country up to the year 1905. He is able to add eight 

 species to former lists — namely, Turdus sibiricus, Hirundo 

 daurica, and Charadrius dominicus (fulvus) all of the East 

 Siberian Fauna ; Melanocorypha calandra, Merops apiaster, 

 Erythropus vespertinus, Aluco flammeus, and Nycticurax 

 griseus of the South or Middle European Fauna. Four new- 

 hybrids will also be found mentioned in the following paper. 



107. Collett on Norwegian Hybrids. 



[Hybrids among Norwegian Birds and their Diagnoses. By R. Collett. 

 T. c no. 11.] 



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