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XXX. Additional Xotes on the Ornithology of Transvaal. 



By Thomas Ayres. (Communicated by John Henry Gurney.) 406 



XXXI. Remarks upon the Phasianus ignitus of Latham and 



the allied Species. By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. &c 411 



XXXII. Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. By R. 

 BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.— Part III. On two Col- 

 lections of Birds from Sarawak 414 



XXX III. Notes on the Birds of Michalaski, Norton Sound. 



By Surgeon Edward Adams 420 



XXXIV. Note on the Type of Malaconotus leucotis, Swainson. 



By OsBERT Salvin, M.A., F.E.S., &c. (Plate XI.) .... 443 



XXXV. Descriptions of two new Species of Birds from Cen- 

 tral America, and one from South America. By Osbert Salvin, 

 M.A., P.R.S., &c 445 



XXXVI. Note on the Breeding of the Sacred Ibis in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens. By P. L, Sclater. (Plate XII.) 449 



XXXVII. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 

 BritishMuseum,'byR.Bowdler Sharpe (1874). ByJ. H. GrRNEY 451 



XXXVIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



46. ' BuUetin ' of the Nuttall Ornithological Club . . .466 



47. Lawrence on new Trochilidse and Tetraonidae . . . 468 



48. Lawrence on new West-Indian Birds 468 



49. Brewer on New-England Birds 469 



50. E. Mulsant on a new Trochilus 469 



51. Professor Owen on the Solitaire 469 



52. A. Milne-Edwards on the Systematic Position of the 



genus Mesitcs 470 



53. Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany,' Part xiv. . . 471 



54. J. H. Gurney, Jun., on the Birds of the Fern Islands . 471 



55. ' Proceedings ' of the Linnean Society of New South 



Wales 472 



56. Capt. W. E. Armit on two Australian PoepJiilft? . . 473 

 67. Elliot's ' Monograph of the Hornbills ' 474 



58. Harvie Brown's Notes on Sutherlandshire Birds . . 474 



59. Bureau on the Moulting of portions of the Puffin's beak 475 



60. Ridgway's 'Studies of the American Herodiones' . .475 



61. Ridgway's Report of the Ornithology of the United- 



States Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel 477 



