CONTENTS OF NUMBER VII.— NEW SERIES. 



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 XXI. The Ornithology of India. — A Commentary on Dr. Jerdon's ' Birds of 



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



Society at Calcutta, Hon. Mem. As. Soc. . . . • 225 



XXII. From Arizona to the Pacific. By Elliott Cotjes, M.A., M.D 259 



XXIII. On the Genus Oxynotus of Mauritius and Re'union. By Franc^'OIS Pollkn, 

 Honorary Assistant of the Eoyal Museum of Leyden, &c. (Plates VII. 

 and VIII.) 275 



XXIV. On the Ornithology of Palestine. (Part IV.) By the Rev. H. B. Tris- 

 tram, M.A., F.L.S., C.M.Z.S 280 



XXV. Ornithological Notes from Formosa. By Eobekt Swinhoe, Her Majesty's 



Consul, F.Z.S., &c. (Plate IX.) 292 



XXVI. On iheMusicajya melrmicteni of Gmelin. By theViscount Walden, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., &c 316 



XXVII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Captain Powlett-Orde and Mr. C. B. Wharton ; Extract from a letter 

 of Mr. C. J. Andersson 324 



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%* It having been recently resolved that the annual volume of ' The Ibis ' should not in 

 future nmch exceed 400 pages, we are compelled to omit from the present Number our 

 usual "Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications," which could only have been 

 given by excluding more important and interesting original matter. 



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