Vlll CONTENTS. 



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 4. Australasian : — Biiller's 'Essay on the Ornithology of New 



Zealand ; ' llamsay on Australian Oology 131 



VIII. Letters, A.nnouncements, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. E. P. llamsay, Dr. D. Scott, Capt. Beavan, 

 Messrs. H. J. Elwes, D. Mackay and C. Barron ; Further Dis- 

 covery of Didine Bones in Rodriguez ; Demand for Vol. I. of 

 'The Ibis' 134 



Number X., April. 



IX. The Ornithology of India. — A Commentary on Dr. Jer- 

 dons ' Birds of India.' By Edward Blyth, late Curator of the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Hon. Mem. As. Soc. 147 



X. Notes on the Birds seen during a Voyage from London to 

 New Zealand in 1866. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. . . 185 



XI. Notes on Birds collected near Hakodadi in Northern 

 Japan. By Henry Whitely, Junior. (Plate III.) .... 193 



XII. On the Rufous-tailed Shrikes. By Viscount Walden, 

 F.Z.S. (Plates V. & VI.) 211 



XIII. Jottings on Birds from my Amoy Journal. By Robert 

 SwiNHOE, Her Majesty's Consul, F.Z.S., &o. 226 



XIV. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English: — Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain,' parts ix. and x.; 

 Stevenson's ' Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. ; Colquhoun's ' Sporting 

 Days ; ' Shepherd's ' North-west Peninsula of Iceland ; ' Grant's 



' Birds found in Malta and Gozo ' 237 



2. French : — Gerbe's edition of Degland's ' Ornithologie Euro- 

 peenne ; ' Alphonse Milne-Edwards's ' Oiseaux Fossiles de la 

 France ; ' Geoffroy on Lophophorus Ihwi/si 240 



3. Dutch and Belgian: — Ornithological papers in the ' Ne- 

 derlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkuude ; ' De la Fontaine's 



' Faune du Pays de Luxembourg ; ' ' Archives Cosmologiques ' . 243 



