CONTENTS OE NUMBEH V.— EOURTH SERIES. 



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 I. A Contribution to the Ornithology of Asia Minor. By C. Gr. 



Danford 1 



II. Notes on the Troch'dida>. The Genus Thaumatias. By D. G. 



Elliot, F.R.8.E. &c 35 



III. Remarks on certain Species of Corvidce and PcwadiseidiV, with 



a Description of an apparently new Species of Cyanocorax. 



By D. G. Elliot, E.ll.S.E. &c 54 



IV. Characters of a supposed new Species of South-American 



Thrush. By G. N. Lawrence. (Plate I.) 57 



V. Notes on the Birds of the Province of Buenos Ayres, By 



Henby Dfrnford 58 



YI. Notes on the Dicrurido}, and on their Arrangement in the 

 Catalogue of the Collection in the British Museum. By 

 Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S 69 



YII. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Mu- 

 seum,' by B. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). (Plate II.) By J. 

 H. Gurnet 84 



YIII, Notices of recent Publications : — 



1. ' Transactions of the New-Zealand Institute ' 102 



2. Lawrence on New Birds from the Island of Dominica lO-"] 



3. Ridgway on the genus Leucodicte 104 



4. Ridgway on the Birds of Guadalupe Island 104 



5. Godwin-Austen on soma species of Pellflrneum and Poina- 



torhinus, &c 105 



6. Godwin- Austen on three new Species of Birds from Assam . . lO-) 



7. Harvie-Browu on the Distribution of Birds in N. Russia .... 106 



8. Barboza du Bocage's ' Ornithology of Angola ' 107 



9. Briiggemann on Birds from S.E. Borneo 108 



10. Briiggemann on Birds from Celebes 108 



11. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 109 



12. Gould's ' Birds of Asia ' 109 



13. David and Oustalet's ' Birds of China ' 110 



14. D. G. Elliot and A. Reichenow on the Ibises Ill 



15. D. G. Elliot's Descriptions of new Species of Birds 113 



IX. Letters, Announcements, &c. :— 



Letter from Mr. A. 0. Hume, C.B. ; Remarks thereon by Editors 

 and by Major Godwin-Austen; letters from Dr. T. M. Brewer 

 (two), from Mr. J. 11. Gumey (two), from Mr. A. 0. Hmne, and 

 from Mr. D. G. Elliot ; Obituary of the late Mr. R. Swinhoe, F.R.S. 114 



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