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gulielmi III. (!)j Campephaga sloeti^ Scolopacc rochussenij and 
Noctua ft'anseni. The knowledge of all these birds is due to the 
indefatigable exertions of Dutch travellers or residents in the 
Malay archipelago. 
Schmidt^ Max. Die Ueberwinterung. Zool. Garten^ 1865, 
pp. 330-340. 
This article is in continuation of one in the same volume 
(p. 293) referring to Mammals^ and treats of the effects of win- 
tering in the climate of Frankfort on the Maine on exotic birds, 
Turrel, L. Des moyens les plus efficaces pour prevenir la 
destruction des Oiseaux de passage. Bull. Soc. Imper, 
d^Acclimat. 1865, pp. 497-532. 
The folly of the indiscriminate destruction of birds, especially 
carried on in the south of France and Italy, is very fairly shown, 
and the author by doing this probably supplies a better means 
of checking the bad practice than any other that he suggests. 
The paper contains no information that will be new to the 
naturalist. 
ViAN, Jules. Causeries Ornithologiques. Rev. et Mag. de 
Zool. 1865, pp. 40-47, 74-79, 129-133. 
These papers treat chiefly of the economy of Cuculus canorus, 
and merit attention from those ornithologists to whom it is a 
matter of interest. The author very properly scouts the idea 
that the hen Cuckoo can voluntarily give her egg any colour 
desirable to assimilate it to those of the bird into whose nest she 
intends to introduce it, and considers that the variety in the 
colour of Cuckoos'’ eggs has been much exaggerated. He believes 
that intimidation is the means employed to induce other birds 
to foster them, and that a fight always takes place between the 
ovipositing Cuckoo and the owners of the nest. Acting on this 
belief, he instituted a series of experiments, of which he gives 
the details, proving that birds will not foster the egg of another 
species unless one of their own has been broken in or near the 
nest. The other subjects mentioned are the ceremonies de 
mariage^"’ of Corvus coroner and the reunion'’^ of a Turdus viscU 
vorus with a Fringilla ccelebs ! 
Weir, J. Jenner. On the power possessed by Birds, natives of 
warm climates, to resist with impunity the cold of higher 
latitudes. Zoologist, pp. 9411-9414. 
The authoFs experience is of some practical use to those who 
have the management of zoological gardens, tending as it does to 
show that birds from the tropics have a far greater power of re- 
sisting cold than is commonly supposed, apd are kept in better 
