CONTENTS OF NUMBER ]X.— NEW SERIES. 



Page 

 I. The Ornithology of India. — A Commentary on Dr. Jerdoii's ' Birds of 



India.' By Edward Bltth, late Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic 



Society at Calcutta, Hon. Mem. As. Soc 1 



II. Egypt Revisited. By E. Cavendish Taylok, M.A., F.Z.S 48 



III. On the Ornithology of Palestine. (Part Y.) By the Eev. H. B. Tkistbam, 



M.A., r.L.S., C.M.Z.S. (Plate I.) 73 



IV. A Month in Tripoli. By W. T. H. Chambers 97 



V. Remarks on Dr. Leotaud's ' Birds of Trinidad.' By P. L. Sclater, M.A., 



F.R.S. &c 104 



VI. On the Genus Cinclus. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



(Plate II.) 109 



VII. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English : — Sclater and Salvin's ' Exotic Ornithology,' part i. ; Harting's ' Birds of 



Middlesex ;' Cricliton's ' Naturalist's Ramble to the Orcades ;' King's ' Sports- 

 man and Naturalist in Canada j' Lord's ' Naturalist in Vancouver Island and 

 British Columbia ' 123 



2. French: — Mulsant's 'Essai d'une Classification M^tbodique des Trochilid^es;' 



Pollen's ' Memoires Scientifiques ' 126 



3. American : — Bryant on Birds of Porto Rico ; Weiz on Vertebrates of Labrador ; 



Lawrence on New Birds from Central and South America ; Coues on the Orni- 

 thology of Arizona and ' Review of the Family P/-oce/^«n'2'c?<« ' 129 



4. Australasian : — BuUer's ' Essay on the Ornithology of New Zealand ;' Ramsay 



on Australian Oology 131 



VIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. E. P. Ramsay, Dr. D. Scott, Capt. Beavan, Messrs. H. J. Elwes 

 and D. Mackay, and Dr. Barron ; Further Discovery of Didine Bones in Ro- 

 driguez ; Demand for Vol. I. of * The Ibis ' 134 



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