CONTENTS OP NUMBEE XYI.— EIETH SERIES. 



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 XXXIX. On the Wings of Birds. By C. J. Sundeyall. (Plates X., 



XI.) 389 



XL. Note on the Nestling Plumage of Gypoictinia melano- 



sternon (Gould). By John Henky Gttkkey .... 457 



XLI. Description of a new Species of the Genus Empidonax 

 from Guatemala, By Bobert Bidgway, Curator 

 Department of Birds, United States National Musomn . 459 



XLII. On EmpidocJicmes fuscatus (Max.) and Empidonax brunneas, 



Bidgw. By Bobert Bidgway . 460 



XLIII. On the Species of the Genus Empidonax. By Kobeet 



Bidgway 461 



XLIV. Ornithology in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. By 



Howard Saunders 468 



XLV. On a Collection of Birds from several little-known Islands 



of the West Indies. By Charles B. Coey .... 471 



XLVI. On a Collection of Birds from Pao in the Persian Gulf. 

 By B. BoAVDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. With Notes 

 by the Collector, W. D. Gumming 475 



XLVII. On a Collection of Birds from Bushire, in the Persian Gulf. 



By B. BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., P.Z.S., &c 493 



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

 British Guiana. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., P.B.S., &c. 

 (Concluded.) (Plate XII.) 499 



XLIX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



77. The American Ornithologists' Union Code and Cbeck- 



List 510 



78. ' The Auk ' 513 



79. The Bombay Natural History Society I mi 



80. Brewster ou Bird-Migratiou \ ^^^ 



81. British Association's Report on Migrations in 1885 . . . 515 



82. A. W. Butlepi on the Birds of Indiana I ktc 



83. Gigholi on the Birds of Italy . _._ .( ^ 



84. Meyer on Birds from Emperor- William's-Land .... 517 



85. ' Mittheilungeu ' of the Ornithological Union of Vienna • I c-io 

 86-87. Mojsisovics ou Hungarian Birds ( 



88. ' Ornis/ Vol. I. Nos. 2, 3 [ 519 



89. Payne-Gallwey on Duck Decoys j 



90. Radde's Fauua and Flora of the South-western Caspian 



District [521 



91. Reyes on the Birds of Spain and Portugal ) 



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