CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVIII, {continued). 



39. Booth on British Birds 246 



40. Biittikofer on the Birds of Liberia 247 



41. Biittikofer on 8umati'an Birds j 



42. Guillemard's Cruise of the ' Marchesa ' ( 



43. Harvie-Browu on North Rona i mn 



44. Gilford's ' British Birds ' | '^■*'' 



45. Maepherson on the Birds of Skye I o-n 



46. Menzbier on the Migration Routes of Russian Birds . . ( 



47. Menzbier on a new Green Woodpecker ... I o- 



48. ' Ornis,' Vol. I. No. 4, Vol. II. Nos. 1-3 .....'.' f ^^^ 



49. Oustalet on two new Species of Bii-ds from tlie Cape Verd 



Islands 252 



50-52. Oustalet on new Birds from the Congo 1 



63-64. Oustalet on new or rare Species of Birds in the Paris i 263 

 Museum | 



55. Pelzeln and Lorenz on the Types in the Vienna Museum 1 



56. Schperck on the Birds of the Amur (. 254 



67. Shufeldt on Injuries to the Beak in Birds j 



68-69. Sousa on African Birds j 



60. S. Swinburne on Oceanic Birds j" "^'^ 



61. Vian on the Young in Down of the Ptilop^des 256 



62. Vian on Asiatic Warblers in Heligoland ) 



63. Vorderman on the Birds of Borneo . • / 



64. Zaroudnoi and Menzbier on the Birds of the Trans- ( 



Caspian Regions j 



XXV. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. J. H. Gurney and Canon Tristram ; ' Birds 

 of the Afghan Boundary ;' Dr. Radde's Trans-Caspian 

 Expedition ; Obituary — Mr. Robert Gray 258 



Publications received since the issue of No. 17, Fifth Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



17. Babboza du Bocage. Oiseaux nouveaux de I'lle St. Thom6. (Jorn. 

 Sci. Lisboa, No. 44, 1887.) 



18. Cory. Description of a new Species of Rhamphocinclus from St. Lucia, 

 W. Indies. (The Auk, iv. p. 94.) 



19. Cory. A list of the Birds collected by Mr. W. B, Richardson in the 

 Island of Martinique, W. Indies. (The Auk, iv, p. 95.) 



20. Hoffmann. Die Waldschnepfe. Zweite Auflage. (8vo. Stutto-art, 

 1887.) 



21. Jahresbsricht (1885). Der ornithologisehen Beobachtungstationen im 

 Konigreich Sachsen, bearbeitet von Dr. A. B. Meyer und von Dr. F. Helm. 

 (8vo, Dresden, 1886.) 



22. Leverkuhn. Omithologische Exkursionen im Friihling 1886. (Mon- 

 atschr. d. deutsch. Ver. z, Schiitze d. Vogelwelt, 1886, p. 241.) 



23. Marshall. Deutschlands Vogelwelt im Wechsel der Zeiten. (8vo. 

 Hamburg, 1887.) 



24. Mittheilungen des ornithologisehen Vereines in Wien. (Section fiir 

 Vogelkunde, Jahr, x. Nos. 17, 18 ; xi. Nos. 1-3, 1887.) 



25. Ridgway. a Nomenclature of Colours for Naturalists, and compendium 

 of useful knowledge for Ornithologists, (8vo. Boston, 1886,) 



