Recently published Ornithological Works. 743 
and Certhionyx variegatus (pi.),most of them with eggs. He 
also discovered the bower, nest, and eggs of Chlamydodera 
guttata (pis.). Of these and their surroundings a most in¬ 
teresting account is given, while the whole paper abounds 
with information on the ways, and especially the nesting- 
habits, of the rarer species. 
The April part is continued by articles on the stomach- 
contents, parasitic worms, and protozoa, of 57 native birds 
by Dr. J. B. Cleland ; on the Mallee country by Mr. F. E. 
Howe ; on Manorhina melanophrys by Mr. F. E. Wilson ; 
on the Satin Bower-Bird by Mr. C. F. Cole; on the birds of 
Parry’s Creek, N.W.A., by Mr. Mathews ; and on those of 
Drouin, Gippsland, by Mr. I. Batey. 
Of new species we have in the three parts descriptions of 
Eopsaltria jacksoni (p. 70) with a coloured plate of bird, nest, 
and young, from the Herberton Range (cf. 1 Emu,’ viii. p. 284, 
ix. p. 246), and of Acanthiza flaviventris from Lake Frome, 
S.A. (p. 137) ; while attention is drawn (p. 173) to others 
recently described in the ‘ Victorian Naturalist/ and one is 
withdrawn (p. 163). 
86. Festa on Birds from Darien and Ecuador. 
[Nel Darein e nell’ Ecuador. Diario di viaggio di un Naturalista. 
Dr. E. Festa. 1 vol. 397 pp.] 
The author has kindly sent us a copy of this work, which 
has no bookseller’s name attached to it, and appears to have 
been privately printed. Dr. E. Festa is a well-known and 
energetic traveller and naturalist, who has sent a large series 
of zoological specimens to the Museum of Turin, where they 
have been studied and described by Count Salvadori. In 
Darien Dr. Festa obtained 202 specimens belonging to 
122 species, among which was a new Tanager ( Rhampho - 
ccelus festae ), named by Salvadori after its discoverer*. But 
a much more extensive collection w r as made during his 
longer sojourn in Ecuador, where 2892 specimens of birds 
* Bol. Mus. Torino, vol. xii. p. 219 (1896). 
