CONTENTS or NUMBEE, XIII.— EIETH SEUIES. 



Pag© 

 I. On two new Species of Birds from New Ireland. Bj' 0. 



FiNscH, Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U. (Plate t.) 1 



II. On a new African Pigeon of the Genus Tympanistria. By 



Dr. G. Hartlaxtb 2 



III. On the Xest and Eggs of Swainson's Warbler {Heloncea siuain- 



soni). By William Brewster 4 



IV. On the Birds of Aden and the jSTeighbourhood. By Major J. 

 W. Yerburt, ll.A. With Notes by R. Boavdler Suarpe, 

 F.L.S. &c. (Plate II.) 11 



Y. Notes on the Birds of the Upper Engadine. By Henry Seebohm 24 



YI. On Lanius excubitor and Lanius major. By Egbert Collext 30 



YII. On the Species of the Genus Plotus and their Distribution. 



By H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.E.S. (Plate III.) .... 41 



YIII. On the Wren of St. Kilda. By H. E. Dresser, E.Z.S. ... 43 



IX. Notes from Northern Iceland in the Summer of 1885. By 45 

 Henry H. Slater and Thomas Carter 



X. On some interesting Additions to the Avifauna of Bucaramanga, 53 

 U.S. of Colombia. By Hans von Berlepsch. (Plate IV.). 



XI. A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British 



Guiana. By Oseerx Salvin, M.A.,r.R.S., &c. (Continued.) 57 



XII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. 'The Auk' . • ., 78 



2. Berlepsch and Jhering on South-Brazilian Birds .... 79 



3. R. Blasiua on Colleclions iu the Mark and Poraerauia . . 1 



4. R. Blasius on Collections in Sweden and Norway . . . . •■ 80 

 6. Biittikofer on Liberian Birds j 



6. Biittikofer on Glareula megnpoda J 



7. Oazin on Plotus melanoc/aster I 81 



8. Dixon on Evolution without Natural Selection . . . . | 



9. Evans on some Scottish Birds 82 



10. Forbes's Scieutitic Papers 83 



11. Gadow on the Anatomy of Birds [ aa 



12. Giglioli on the Ornithological Congress at Vienna . • ■ | 



13. Kii'k on Variations in New-Zealand Birds 85 



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