XX CONTENTS. 



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62. Hancock on the Cuckoo 367 



63. Kingsley's ' Standard Natural History ' 368 



64. Lawrence on two new Birds from Yucatan .... 370 



65. Lwoff on the Histology of Feathers 370 



66. Macpherson and Duckworth on the Birds of Cumberland 370 



67. Meyer's Illustrations of Birds' Skeletons .... 371 



68. ' Mittheilungen' of the Ornithological Union of Vienna 372 



69. Oustalet on new Birds from New Guinea .... 373 



70. Random Notes on Natural History 373 



71. Eeport on the Dresden Museum of Art and Science . 373 



72. Keport on the Observing-stations of German Birds . 373 



73. Schalow's Essay on the Touracoos 374 



74. Sclater on the Coerebidee, Tanagridse, and Icteridse . 375 



75. Shufeldt on the Skeleton of Gecocoecyx 376 



76. Vorderman on the Birds of Mount Salak .... 376 



XXXVIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Count T. Salvador!, Herr A. von Pelzeln, Dr. G. 

 Hartlaub, Mr. E. Cavendish Taylor, and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger; 

 Reeves's Pheasant at Home ; Radde's Scientific Expedition in 

 Transcaspia ; Mr. H. 0. Forbes in New Guinea ; News of Mr. H. 

 H. Johnston ; Rediscovery of Platycercus unicoJor; Anniversary 

 Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 1886 ; Obituary — 

 Prof. E. von Boeck, of Cochabamba ; and Heer Frangois P. L. 

 Pollen 377 



Number XVI., October. 



XXXIX. On the Wings of Birds. By C. J. Sttndevall. 

 (Plates X., XI.) 389 



XL. Note on the Nestling Plumage of Gypoictinia melano- 

 sternon (Gould). By John Henry Gtjrney 457 



XLI. Description of a new Species of the Genus Empidonax 

 from Guatemala. By Robert Ridgwat, Curator Department 

 of Birds, United States National Museum . 459 



