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109. Fatio on the Birds of Switzerland. 
[Faune des Vertebres de la Suisse. Par Victor Fatio. Vol. II. Oiseaux. 
Ire Partie, Rapaces, Grimpeurs, Percheurs, Bailleurs et Passereaux. 
Avec 3 Planches hors texte, dont 2 en couleurs, 1 carte g^ographique 
colorize, 135 figures dans le texte, dont 127 originates, et 26 tableaux. 
Geneve et Bale : Georg & Co., 1899.] 
We welcome the first instalment of a complete and up-to- 
date work on the avifauna of Switzerland, from the pen of 
our accomplished Foreign Member. The portion which 
relates to the diurnal Raptores contains far more details than 
those given in the treatise published in 1889 in collaboration 
with Dr. T. Studer (cf. Ibis, 1889, p. 394), while all the rest 
of the work will be absolutely new to our readers. Dr. Fatio 
very properly places a note of query to such species as 
the American Turdus solitarias, ascribed to Switzerland 
by the credulous Degland and Gerbe; but the occurrence of 
T.fuscatus in Aarau, as a wanderer, is not improbable ; and 
the irregular appearance of Sylvia melanocephala near Geneva 
might be expected. The figures in the text are adequate; 
the synoptical lists leave nothing to be desired, and there is 
an excellent index. We shall be glad to see Part II., with 
the coloured plates that have been unavoidably omitted from 
this volume. 
110. Festa on the Breeding of a Curassow in Europe. 
[Ailevamento della Crax panamensis in Piemonte. Del Enrico Festa. 
Boll. Mus. Zool. Universita di Torino, xv. no. 361.] 
Dr. E. Festa, whose splendid collection of the birds of 
Ecuador has recently been catalogued by Count Salvador! 
(cf. Ibis, supra p. 559), brought home with him in 1898, 
from Panama, a male and two females of Crax panamensis. 
From eggs of one of these females laid in May 1899 two 
young birds were artificially hatched and successfully reared. 
Dr. Festa describes their various changes of plumage. 
111. Finn on some Indian Weaver-birds. 
[Notes on the Ploceidee. By F. Finn. J. A. S. B. Ixviii. pt. 2, p. 250, 
1899.] 
Mr. Finn has discovered that his supposed new Indian 
