64 
ZOOLOGICAL LITEllATUllE. 
Remarks on the Nidification of Australian Birds. Zoolo- 
gist, pp. 9175-9178. 
The author describes the nests and eggs of the two species 
above mentioned, namely, Psqphodes crepitans and Ephthianura 
albifrons ; those of the latter agree with the account given of 
them by Mr. E. P. Ramsay (Ibis, 1863, pp. 178, 179). Mr. 
Dobree remarks also on the well-known singularity in the mode 
of nidification adopted by some of the birds of Australia, and 
concludes by assigning as a reason for the scarcity of birds in 
that country the fact that many of them lay so small a number 
of eggs. 
Fischer, J. C. H. ^gget af Noddekrigen {Caryocatactes gut- 
tatus), KroyeFs Naturhist. Tidsskrift, 1864. 
Having ascertained that the Nutcracker bred in the island of 
Bornholm, both in 1862 and 1863, the author was disappointed 
in his efi^brts to procure the long-wished-for egg of this species, 
as in each year the birds had hatched their brood before the 
nest was found. In the spring of 1864 the haunts of a pair of 
Nutcrackers were closely watched, and their nest, with four eggs, 
was discovered on the 23rd March. A description of these and 
of the nest is appended. {Cf. P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 206-208; Ibis, 
1862, pp. 365-368.) 
Gould, John. Description of the egg of Parra gallinacea, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 661. 
It appears closely to resemble the well-known eggs of others 
of the ParridcB. 
Kruper, Th. Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte des Eleonoren- 
Falken, Falco eteonorcBy Gene. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, pp. 1-23. 
The eggs are described as resembling rather those of F. sub- 
buteo than of F. peregrinus. The author discovered many nests, 
and his paper gives very full details of the breeding-habits of the 
species. 
Newton, AlpreO. Ootheca Wolleyana : an illustrated Cata- 
logue of the Collection of Birds^ Eggs formed by the late 
John Wolley, Jun., M.A., F.Z.S. Edited from the original 
Notes. Part I. Accipitres, London : 1864. Royal 8vo, 
pp. 180. 
The plates in this portion of the work represent six eggs of 
Neophron percnoptei'uSy twelve of Aquila chrysaetus, twelve of 
Archibuteo lagopus, six of Pandibn haliaetus, six of Falco gyr- 
falcOy four of Nyctale tengmalmiy four of Surnia idida, and four 
of Syrnium lapponicum, besides nests of Pandion haliaetus (two 
plates) , Astur palurnbariuSy Aquila chrysaelus (two plates) , ^us 
cinereay and Cygnus /eras. Idic mode of breeding of most of 
