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69. Menegaux on Two new Bolivian Birds . 
[Descriptions de deux formes nouvelles d’Oiseaux rapport^s de la 
Bolivie par la Mission de Crequi-Montfort. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. 
Mus. d’Hist. Nat. 1908, no. 7, p. 340.] 
The birds described as new are Agriornis andecola paznce, 
from a specimen obtained on the road from Pazna to 
Urmiri, at an elevation of 3694 metres, and Brachyspiza 
capensis pula cay ensis from Pnlacayn and Pazna, at a height of 
about 4200 metres. We may remark that it is absurd, in our 
opinion, to call an American bird capensis” the law of 
common-sense being more obligatory than that of priority. 
The so-called ee Brachyspiza capensis ” is our old friend 
Zonotrichia pileata , one of the commonest and widely dif¬ 
fused birds in South America. 
70. North on the Nesting-site of Gerygone personata. 
[Notes on the Nesting-site of Gerygone personata Gould. By Alfred 
5. North. Bee. Austr. Mus. vii. No. 3 (1908).] 
te Of the many stratagems used by birds to secure 
immunity from harm no more ingenious device is there 
than that of the Masked Bush-Warbler, which nearly always 
builds its hooded, dome-shaped nest close to a wasps’ nest/’ 
An excellent photograph of a nest of this bird and of the 
adjoining wasps’ nest, taken in the scrub near Somerset, 
Cape York, in October 1907, illustrates this remarkable 
habit. 
71. North on Australian Bower-birds . 
[Notes on Newton’s Bower-bird and the Tooth-billed Bower-bird. 
By A. J. North. Viet. Nat. xxv. p. 160 (1909).] 
In this paper, which was read before the Field Naturalists’ 
Club of Victoria on the 18th of January last, Mr. North 
gives us much information concerning two of the rarest and 
most interesting of the Australian Bower-birds, Prionodura 
newtoniana and Scenopoetes dentirostris. 
Newton’s Bower-bird was described by Mr. De Vis in 
1883, but it was not until November 1908 that its nesting- 
place was discovered a by Mr. George Sharp’s black boys” in 
