CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVII.— EIETH SERIES. 



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

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

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



II, A List of Birds collected by Mr. Walter Ayres in Transvaal 

 and in Umzeilla's Country lying to the North-east of Trans- 

 vaal, between the 23rd and 24th degrees of South Latitude 

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

 the Collector. Communicated by John Henrt Gurxey. . 47 



III. On Empidonax brunneus and its allied Species. By P. L. 



SCLATER 64 



IV. Observations in the Eastern Pyrenees. By James Backhouse, 



jun 66 



V. Notes on "Woodpeckers. — No. XIII. On Gecinus gorii, and on 



the male of Poliopicus ellioti. By Edward 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 

 Urospizias, proposed to be called Urospiizias jardinei. By 

 J. H. GuRNEY. (Plate IIL) 90 



Vni. On the Breeding-plumage of Podiceps occidentalism Lawrence. 



By H. B. Trisiram, D.D., F.R.S 98 



IX. On the Bullfinches of Siberia and Japan. By Henry Seebohm 100 



X. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Beckham on the Ruby-crowned Kinglet i lfi<l 



2. Berlepsch on the Literature of the Trochilid^ . . . . j 



3. W. Blasius on the Birds of Celebes 



4. Biittikofer on Birds from the Tenimber Islands . . 



5. Buttikofer on a new Perkrocotus 



6. Dubois on Birds from the Tanganyka District ....!• 105 



7. Ferrari-Perez on Mexican Birds ) 



8. Fischer and Pelzeln on the Birds of Jan Meyen .... 106 



9. Godman andSalvin's 'Biologia Centrali-Americana ' . . 107 



10. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 108 



11. Hartlaub on new African Birds | 



12. Huet on Additions to the Jardin des Plantes (, 109 



13. Littleboy on the Birds of Hertfordshire J 



14. Meyer on some Birds from New Guinea I nn 



15. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier's ' Madagascar ' . . . .( 



16. Nathusius on the Position of the Egg in the Oviduct . . I m 



17. Nathusius on the Egg of Struthiolithus j ■'■-'•■'• 



18. Norfolk and Norwich NaturaUsts' Society's Transactions . 112 



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