418 Messrs. Salvin and Sclatcr's Index of the 



name of the author ; so that, on turning to the name of an author 

 in any given year, it will be easy to find where the papers written 

 by him were published. Furthermore the name of every new 

 species described during the year will be mentioned in the notice 

 of the paper containing its description. The name of every species 

 of which a figure is published will be likewise mentioned. By this 

 plan the names of the species newly described, and of those figured, 

 will be included in the Index to ' The Ibis,' which will thus also 

 serve as an index to the present article. 



We trust that this arrangement will be continued every year, 

 and will prove to be of permanent value. But we must remind 

 our readers that much of the completeness of our work depends 

 upon their cooperation, and that it is only by forwarding either 

 copies of their papers, or lists of them, that our undertaking can 

 attain that perfection at which, in the interest of all ornitho- 

 logists, we aim. 



The Editor of this Journal has therefore to request that 

 authors of ornithological papers in all countries will favour him 

 with copies of their publications, in order that they may not be 

 overlooked in this yearly article. A short abstract of the con- 

 tents of each communication would be also desirable.] 



Adams, Arthur. 



Tr-avels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria. London : 

 1870. 



Contains notes on the habits of various birds, for a full notice 

 of which see ' The Zoologist ' for 1870. 



Allen, J. A. 



Notes on some of the rarer birds of Massachusetts. Am. Nat. 

 iii. pp. 505-519, 568-585, 631-648. 



The whole number of birds now known to occur in Massachu- 

 setts is stated to be 300. It is to some of the less known of these 

 that the present notes apply. 



Allkon, a., et ViAN, Jules. 



Des Migrations des Oiseaux de Proie sur le Bosphore de Con- 

 stantinople. Rev. Zool. 1870, pp. 81, 129, 161. 



These are additional observations to those already published 

 by the same authors in the ' Revue ' for 1869, on the birds of 



