CONTENTS OF NUMBER V.— NEW SERIES. 



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I. On the Solaii Goose, or Gannet (Stda hassana, Linn.). By Robeut 0. 



Cunningham, M.D. (Plate I.) 1 



II. Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas. By H. E. Dkesser 22 



III. Field Notes on Lopliortyx gamheli. By Elliott Cottes, M.D 40 



IV. On a New Species of the genus Polyplectron. By D. G. Elliot, F.Z.S., &c. 50 



V. Note on the Species of the genus Muschaxkola. By P. L. Sclatee, M.A., 



Ph.D., F.E.S., &c 56 



VI. On the Ornithology of Palestine. (Part III.) By the Rev. H. B. Tristram, 



M.A., F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. (Plato II.*) 59 



VII. Notes on the Birds of the Azores. By Frederick Du Cane Godman, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., &c. (Plate III.) 88 



VIII. Note on " Kittacincla auricidaris," Swinhoe. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., 



Ph.D., F.Il.S., &c. (Plate IV.) 109 



IX. Notices of Becent Ornithological Publications ; — 



1. Eiu/Ush: — Tristram's 'Land of Israel:' Gould's 'Handbook to the Birds of 



Anstralia:' Travers on the Birds of t lie Chatham Islands Ill 



2. Gennan : — Von Pelzeln on the Ornithology of the ' Norara ' Voj'agc : Seideu- 



facher on the Birds of Cilli 11 T) 



3. Dutch : — Harting on the Episternal Apparatus of Birds : Sehlegel on the King- 



fishers of the Dutch Indies : Schlegel's ' Dierentuin ' llt> 



4. Jinssifoi : — Radde's ' Birds of Sovitb-eastern Siberia ' 11 S 



r>. American: — Lawrence on Birds of Pjiuauia: Bryant's Papers in the Boston ' Pro- 

 ceedings.' no 



X. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. Swiulioe, Howard Saunders, E. P. Ramsay, Whitely, and 

 J. H. Gurney. Interesting Discovery of Bones of Didus ineptus in Mnuritius . 121 



* Plate II. will be given with the April Number. 



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