70 Aves. 
XVII. Aves. 
[1913] 
Since when and why the Tits 
( Paridae ) breed in holes and covered 
nests ; Csorgey, 327. 
t)ber die Brutverhaltnisse und Eier- 
masse der in der westlich palaarktischen 
Region lebenden Eulenarten ; Wend- 
landt, 1490. 
The incubation period intheColum- 
bidae ; Raspail, 1079. 
Incubation period of Tringa hypo - 
leuca ; Turney & Patterson, 1421. 
Cuculus canorus carries its egg in its 
mouth ; Standen, 1308. 
Eggs of Cuculus canorus in the nests 
of Acrocephalus arundinaceus ; Koefoed, 
726. 
Eggs of other specios in tho nest ; 
Krebs, 738. 
Large clutches of eggs of Accipitres ; 
Jourdain, 692. 
Nidification (Regional obser- 
vations). 
British Islands : Nests and eggs of 
British Diving Ducks ; Millais, 908 : 
nesting habits of various British birds ; 
Kirkman, 715 ; Kelso, 702 ; Salter, 1163. 
Germany : report on the bird- 
colony on Memmert, East Frisian 
Islands, for 1912 ; Leege, 773 : on the 
breeding colonies of birds in the north 
Frisian Islands and those off the coast 
of Mecklenburg in the Baltic ; Dietrich, 
365 : Bericht liber die Vogelfreistatte 
auf don Werdorinseln im Jahro 1912 ; 
Gottschalk, 499. 
Russia : Nisten einiger Vogel in 
Russland und Russisch-Asien (Russ.) ; 
Dorogostajskij, 377 : nidification dates 
in Gouv. Pskov ; Nesterov & Nikandrov, 
949 : Nisten, Nest und Eier der Vogel 
des Gouv. Minsk ; ilnitnikov, 1289 : 
Nisten der Vogel im Gebiet Orenburg ; 
Rajskij, 1073. 
North Africa : note on some rare 
Algerian eggs ; Rothschild, 1145. 
Cyprus : Jourdain, 690. 
Palestine : Nesting notes from 
Jerusalem ; Schmitz, 1215. 
Persia : on the eggs and nests of 
Persian sparrows ; Sarudny & Harms, 
1174. 
Russian Asia : dor Vogel am 
Saissan-nor und Marka-kal, Prov. 
Semipalatinsk (Russ .) ; Poliakov, 1062 : 
Vogel am See Kossogol, Mongolion, 
Nisten etc. (Russ.) ; Buturlin, 238. 
Ethiopian Region : nesting notes 
from Uganda and the following eggs 
figured : — Chalcomitra acik, Antlio- 
threptes liypodila, Chrysomitris fron- 
talis, Pyrenestes ostrinus, Melanopteryx 
nigerrima, Xanthophilus xanthops, 
Campophaga phoenicea, Bleda palli- 
digula, Camaroptera tincta, Burnesia 
reichenowi, Cisticola sylvia, Platystira 
cyanea, Elminia longicauda, Terpsi- 
phone emini, Otis melanog aster, Phyllo- 
pezus africanus ; Seth-Smith, 1244 
also 1245 : nesting habits of some 
birds in British East Africa ; Congreve, 
294 : Oologisches aus Deutschostafrika ; 
Schuster, 1223 : nesting notes from 
the Transvaal bushveld ; Roberts, 1114. 
Indian Region : nests and eggs of 
Indian Pigeons ; Baker, 70 : nests, 
eggs and breeding seasons in Ceylon ; 
Wait, 1456 : notes on nesting habits 
and eggs of birds near Kalaw, Upper 
Burma ; Cook, 297 : on the eggs and 
nests of birds in south-east China with 
a plate of eggs ; Vaughan & Jones, 
1441. 
Australian Region : nests and eggs 
of Herons, Ducks, Doves, Gamebirds, 
Rails and Waders in Australia ; North, 
964 : nesting habits of Australian 
Gulls, Waders, Bustards and Crane ; 
Mathews, 856 : nests and eggs of birds 
from New Caledonia and the Loyalty 
Islands figured and described ; Sarasin, 
1172. 
Neotropical Region : nests and 
eggs of Galapagos Island birds ; Gifford, 
487. 
Nearctic Region : nests and eggs of 
the birds of the Fresno district, Cali- 
fornia ; Tyler, 1423 : an introduction 
to the study of the eggs of tho North 
American Limicolae ; Shufeldt, 1261 ; 
Massey, 855. 
Nidification (observations on single 
species). 
Casuariiformes : Casuarius aus- 
tralis ; White, 1505. 
Galliformes : Megapodius tumu- 
lus ; Banfield, 84 : Tetrao urogalloides ; 
Dorogostajskij, 377 : Francolinus 
sephaena ; Haagner, 629 : Calophasis 
mikado ; Seth-Smith, 1241. 
