CONTENTS OF NUMBER XIII. {continued}. 



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14. Kirk on the Eastern Golden Plover 1 



15. Lansdell's ' Central Asia ' i 86 



16. Lilford's ' British Birds ' | 



17. Milne-Edwards and Oustalet on the Birds of Grand Comoro 87 



18. Oustalet on the Ornithological Congress of Vienna ... 88 



19. ' Ornis,' Vol. I. No. 1 ) 



20. Eamsay on new Birds from New Guinea f qn 



21. Ramsay on a new Australian CoUyriocincla j 



22. Reischek on New-Zealand Ornithology ] 



23. Ridgway on certain Dendrceces | _. 



24. Ridgway on the Nomenclature of some North-American Birds ( 



25. Salvadori and Giglioli on new Woodpeckers ( q„ 



26. Seebohm's ' British Birds and their Eggs ' \ ^^ 



27. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidae 96 



28. Waterhouse on the Dates of Publication of Gould's Works. | q^ 



29. Zeitschrift fUr die gesammte Ornithoiogie ( 



XIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. J. E. Harting and Mr. W. Eagle Clarke ; 

 The Birds of Corea ; Quails near Chipping Norton ; Pro- 

 gress of Mr. H. 0. Forbes; Nesting of Batrachostomus ; 

 News li-ora Diego Garcia ; New Ornithological Works in 

 Progress 98 



Publications received since the issue of No. 12, Fifth Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



1. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 



for the year 1883. (8vo. Washington, 1885.) 



2. Beckham. List of the Birds of Nelson County. (Kentucky Geol. Surv., 



4to, 1885.) 



3. Blomepield. Reminiscences of Prideaux John Selby. (8vo. Bath, 1886.) 



4. The Canadian Record of Science. (Vol. i. nos. 2-4.) 



6. Cory. A List of the Birds of the West Indies. Revised Edition. (4to, 

 1886.) 



6. Dalgleish. List of the Birds of Culross and TuUiallan. (Appendix to 

 Beveridge's * Culross and Tiilliallan/ 1885.) 



7. Lawrence. Descriptions of new Species of Birds of the Family Colum- 

 bidae. (The Auk, vol. ii. no. 4.) 



8. Lawrence. Description of a new Species of Bird of the Genus Engyptila, 

 with Notes on two Yucatan Birds. (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. iv. no. 8.) 



9. Menzbieb. OEuvres Posthumes de M. le Dr. N, A. Sewertzow. (Nouv. 

 M^m. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Moscou, xv. 1885.) 



10. Mittheilungen des ornjthologischen Vereines in Wien. (Section fiir 

 Vogelkunde, &c. 1885. Jahr. 9, Nos. 20-28.) 



11. Newton, Memoir of the late John Scales. (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 

 Nat. Soc. vol. iv.) 



12. ScHALOW. Richard Bohm : ein Blatt der Erinnerung. (J. f. 0. 1885.) 



13. Stejnegeb. Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander 

 Islands. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. ]9, 1885.) 



