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4. German: — Hartlaub's ' Einleitung zur Ornithologie der 

 Viti-, Samoa- und Tonga-Gruppe ; ' Von Miiller's * Reisen in 

 Mexico ; ' Dieck ' De Stemo Avium ' 245 



5. American : — Lawrence on New Birds ; Coues on the Omi- 

 thology of Arizona (second notice) 247 



XV. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Dr. Cullen, Capt. Orde, Messrs. E. L. Layard, 

 John Hancock, J. H. Gurney, and P. L. Sclater ; Prof. Huxley's 

 Lectures on the Classification of Birds ; The Question of Priority 

 in the Publication of Names ; Announcement of Mr. Robert 

 Gray's ' Birds of the West of Scotland ; ' Deaths of Drs. Leotaud 

 and Bryant, and of Mr. Selby 247 



NXTMBKR XI., July. 



XVI. The Distribution and Migrations of North American 

 Birds. By Spencer F. Baird, Assist. Sec. Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, For. Mem. Z.S 257 



XVII. The Ornithology of Ceylon. — A Supplement to Dr. 

 Jerdon's ' Birds of India.' By Edward Blyth, late Curator of 

 the Museum of the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Hon. Mem. As. 



Soc 294 



XVIII. The Avifauna of the Andaman Islands. By R. C. 

 Beavan, Capt. Bengal Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S 314 



XIX. On the Land-Birds of the Seychelles Archipelago. By 

 Edward Newton, M.A., C.M.Z.S. (Plate IV.) 335 



XX. On the Ornithology of Palestine. (Part VI.) By the 

 Rev. H. B. Tristram, M.A., F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. (Plate VII.) . 360 



XXI. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English : — Gould's ' Birds of Asia,' part xviii. ; Sclater and 

 Salvin's ' Exotic Ornithology,' parts ii. & iii. ; Lloyd's ' Game 

 Birds and "Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway ; ' Robert Gray's 



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