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CONTENTS OF NUMBER XIV. {continued). 



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45. Me nzHer on the Posthumous Works of SevertzofE . . . 197 



46. 'The Naturalist' 198 



47. Newton's Memoir of the late John Scales 199 



48. Olphe-Galliard on the Birds of Western Europe . . 



49. Palacky on the Distribution of Birds 



60. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidae , 



51. Smithsonian Eeport for 1883 , _ 



62. Stejneger on the Birds of the Commander Islands and( 



Kamtschatba 



53. Taczanowski's Ornithology of Peru ' 202 



XXVI. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. W. Davison, Dr. Gadow, Dr. Giinther, and 

 Mr. W, E. Brooks ; Science in Indiana; The Abundance of 

 Quails last year ; The Generic Term Simorhynchns ; The 

 Wings of Birds; The British Association Migration Com- 

 mittee ; Habits of the Rufous-backed Humming-bird (Selas- 

 phorus rufus) ; New Birds from Celebes ; New and Recent 

 Expeditions 203 



Publications received since the issue of No. 13, Fifth Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



14. Annalen des k.-k. naturhistorischen Hof museums, redigirt von Dr. Franz 

 Bitter von Hauer. Band i. no. 1. 



15. Bericht iiber die Verwaltung der koniglichen Sammlungen fiir Kunst 

 und Wissenschaft zu Dresden in den Jahren 1882 imd 1883. (4to, 1886.) 



16. B1.ASIUS. Die Raubvcigel von Cochabamba. (Mitth. d. ornithol. Ver. 



1884, no. 9.) 



17. Blasius. Osteologische Studien (Messungs-Methoden an Vogel-Ske- 

 letten). (J. f. 0. 1885, p. 409.) 



18. Blasius. Ueber einige Vogel von Cochabamba in Bolivia. (J. f. 0. 



1885, p. 416.) 



19. Blasius. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Vogelfauna von Celebes. — I, 

 (Zeitsch. f d. ges. Ornith. 1885, Heft iii.) 



20. BoECK. Ornis des Thales von Cochabamba in Bolivia. (Mitth. d. 

 ornithol. Ver. 1884, nos. 7, 11.) 



21. The Canadian Record of Science. (Vol. ii. no. 1.) 



22. FiNSCH uud Meyer. Vogel von Neu-Guinea. Parts i., ii. (Zeitsch. f. 

 d. ges. Ornith. 1886, Heft 1.) 



23. Hancock. Note on the Habit of the young Cuckoo in ejecting the Eggs 

 and Young of its Foster-parent from the Nest. (N. H. Trans, of Northuinb., 

 Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, vol. viii.) 



24. Jahresbericht (1883) des Ausschusses fiir Beobachtungsstationen der 

 Vogel Deutschlands. (J. f 0. 1885, p. 225.) 



25. Lawbence. Characters of two supposed new Species of Birds from 

 Yucatan. (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. no. 9.) 



26. LwoFF. Beitrage zur Histologie des Haares, der Borste, des Stachela 

 und der Feder. (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, pt. i. p. 141.) 



27. Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (Section fiir 

 Vogelkunde, &c. 1885, Jahr. 9, Nos. 29-32; 1886, Jahr. 10, Nos. 1-5.) 



28. Random Notes on Natural Historv. Vol. iii. no. 2. 



29. ScHALOW. Die Musophagidse. (J. f. 0. 1886, p. 1.) 



30. Shufeldt. The Skeleton in Geococcyx. (Journ. Anat. & Phys., Jan 

 1886.) 



31. VoBDEEMAN. Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Avifauna van den Berg Salak 

 (West-Java). (Natuurk. Tijdsch. v. Nederl. Indie, Dl. xlv. Afl. 3.) 



