CONTENTS OF VOL. V.— FIFTH SERIES. 



(1887.) 



Number XVII., January. 



Page 



I. A Review of the Species of the Family Ploceidce of the 

 Ethiopian Region. By Captain G, E. Shelley, F.Z.S. — 

 Part II. Phceiiice. (Plates I. & II.) 1 



II. A List of Birds collected by Mr. Walter Ayres in Trans- 

 vaal and in Umzeilla's Country Ijing to the North-east of 

 Transvaal, between the 23rd and 2-ith degrees of South Lati- 

 tude and the 32nd and 33rd of East Longitude, with Notes by 



the Collector. Communicated by John Henry Gfeney ... 47 



III. On Empidonax hrunneus and its allied Species. By P. 



L. Sclatee 64 



IV. Observations in the Eastern Pyrenees. By James 

 Backhouse, jun QQ 



V. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. XIII. On Gecinus fforii, 

 and on the male of Poliojncns ellioti. By Edavard Hargitt, 

 F.Z.S 74 



VI. A List of the Birds of Portugal. By William C. Tait, 

 Oporto 77 



VII. On an apparently undescribed Hawk of the Asturine 

 Subgenus llrospizias, proposed to be called Urospizias jardinei. 



By J. H. Gurney. (Plate III.) 96 



