Recently published Ornithological Works. 485 
(5) the Egg of the Huia {Heteralocha acutirostris) ” 
by the same, ibid, p, 212, 
(6) the Species forming the Genus Ocydromus, a 
peculiar group of brevipennate Eails/^ by the same, ibid. 
p, 213, 
(7) Notice of the Occurrence of the Shy Albatross [Dio- 
medea cauta) in the North Island,^^ by the same, ibid. p. 217. 
(8) On the Addition of the Eed-tailed Tropic-bird [Phae- 
thon rubricauda) to the Avifauna of New Zealand,^^ by the 
same, ibid. p. 219. 
As will be seen by these titles. Dr. Buller is still working 
away at the birds of New Zealand, and has recorded several 
new additions to its avifauna. We are glad to find Nestor 
meridionalis is not yet dying out, being very abundant in the 
Urewera countrywhere an expert bird-catcher will some¬ 
times bag as many as 300 in the course of the day.^^ Zos- 
terops lateralis, which only arrived in New Zealand in 1856, 
now swarms all over the country.^-' Other birds, however, 
such as Anthrornis melanura and Miro longipes, are fast 
disappearing. As regards Ocydromus, Buller holds to his 
opinion that there are only three well-marked species in New 
Zealand, namely, O. earli of the North Island, and O. aus^ 
tralis and 0. fuscus of the South Island, of the latter of 
which he considers 0. finschi to be the young. 
79. Reed on the Zoology of the Province of Colchagua. 
^— [Apuntes de la Zoologia de la Hacienda de Cauquenes, Provincia de 
Colchagua, por Edwyn 0. Reed. 8vo. Santiago de Chile : 1877.] 
Mr. Reed, who has recently left the Museum of Santiago, 
and become Director of the Museum and Professor of Zoology 
in the Lyceum of Valparaiso, gives in this paper a list, with 
critical remarks, of the mammals and birds which he has met 
with within the limits of the extensive Hacienda of Cau¬ 
quenes, in the province of Colchagua, Chili, belonging to the 
brothers Soto. The collection was made for the Chilian In¬ 
ternational Expozition of 1875, and has now been deposited 
in the Banos de Cauquenes. Most of the species included 
are well-known inhabitants of Chili. Scytalopus albifrons 
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