106. Kiu 



107. The kidgv .^ 



108. Salvador! on Bi» .o x. 



109. Saunders's ' List of Britisu 



110. Shufeldt's ' Contributions to Scienuc 



111. Sousa on the Birds of Dahomey 



112. Stejneger on Brachyrhamphus perdix I 



XL VIII. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. : — 



Letters from J. de La Touche ; Rev. H. A. Macpherson ; Dr. 

 A. B. Meyer ; R. B. Sharpe ; Lt.-Col. E. A. Butler, Lt.-Col. 

 H. W. Feilden, and Capt. Savile G. Reid ; Emin Pacha on 

 the Birds of Lake Albert, Eastern Equatorial Africa ; Nesting 

 of Kucifraga caryocatactes ; A new FossU Bird from the 

 Wealden ; Guacharo-shooting in Trinidad ; Important Ad- 

 ditions to the New York Museum; Obituary — T. Henry 

 Bowyer Bower, Sir Julius von Haast, and Professor Spencer 

 F. Baird 469 



Index 481 



Titlepage, Preface, List of Members, and Contents. 



Publications received since the issue of No. 19^ Fifth Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NUMBER. 



46. Andebson. List of Birds, chiefly from the Mergui Archipelago. (Jouru. 

 Linn. Soc. (Zool.) vol. xxi. p. 136.) 



47. Beblepsch. Systematisches Verzeichniss der von Herrn Ricardo Rohda 

 in Paraguay gesammelten Yogel und Appendix. (J. f. O. 1887, pp. 1, 113.) 



48. Cabazzi. Materiali per una Avifauna del Golfo di Spezia e della Val di 

 Magra. (8vo. Spezia, 1887.) 



49. GuBNEY. On the Periodical Movements of Gulls (Larida) on the Coast 

 of Norfolk. (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. iv. p. 326.) 



50. GuENEY and Southwell. Fauna and Flora of Norfolk. — Part XI. 

 Birds, Section II, (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. iv. p. 397.) 



51. Habtebt. Vorliiufiger Versuch einer Ornis Preussens. (Mitth. d. Omi- 

 thol. Ver. Wien, 1887.) 



52. The Indian Annals and Magazine of Natm-al Science. Conducted by 

 James A. Mubkay. (Vol. i. no?. 1, 2, 3, 1887.) 



63. Menzbleb. Vergleichende Osteolosie der Penguine in Anwendimg zur 

 Haupteintheilung der V6p;el. (Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Moscou, 1887, no. 2.) 



54. The Naturalist's Monthly. (Vol. i. no. 1.) 



55. Nazaeow. Recherches zoologiques des Steppes des Kirguiz. (Bull. Soc. 

 Imp. d. Nat. Moscou, 1887, pt. 2, p. 338.) 



56. Scully. On the Mammals and Birds collected by Capt. C. E. Yate in 

 Northern Afghanistan. (J. A. S. B. vol. Ivi. pt. 2, p. 68.) 



57. Shueeldt. a Critical Comparison of a Series of Skulls of the Wild and 

 Domesticated Turkeys. (Journ. of Comp. Med. & Surg., July 1887.) 



58. Shueeldt. Another Muscle in Birds of Taxonomic Value. (Science, 

 vol. ix. p. 623.) 



59. Sousa. Lista das Aves de Mozambique (districto de Cabo Delgado) col- 

 ligidas pelo Sr. Augusto Cardosa. (Jorn. d. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, 

 no. xlv.) 



60. Sousa. Aves da Ilha do Principe coUigidas pelo Sr. Francisco Newton. 

 (Jorn. d. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, no. xlv.) 



61-64. Stejnegeb. Review of Japanese Birds : IV. Synopsis of the Genus 

 Turdus. (P. U. S. N. M. 1887, p. 4.) — Birds of Kauai Island, Hawaiian Archi- 

 pelago. (Ibid, p. 75.) — Contributions to the Natural History of the Commander 

 Islands : No. 7. Revised and Annotated Catalogue of the Birds inhabiting the 

 Commander Islands. {Ibid. p. 117.) — Description of a new Species of Fruit- 

 Pigeon (lanthoenas jouyi) from the Liu Kiu Islands, Japan. (American Natu- 

 ralist, 1887, p. 583.) * 



65. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. 

 (Vol. I. Roy. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1887.) 



