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XI. On the Assignation of a Type to Linncean Genera, -with 

 especial reference to the Genus Strix. By Alfred Newton, 

 M.A., F.ll.S., &c 94 



XII. Notes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora. By Henry 

 Seebohm, F.Z.S., and John A. Harvie Brown 105 



XIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Capt. Legge, Mr. Cordeaux, Mr. Gumey, Mr. 

 D. G. EUiot, Mr. T. E. Buckley, and Viscount Walden . . . 12() 



Nitmber XXII., Aiwil. 



XIV. Notes on some little-known Birds of the new Colony 

 of the Fiji Islands. By Edgar L. Layard, C.M.G., F.Z.S., 

 Administrator of the Government 137 



XV. Notes on the Ornithology of Fiji, with Descriptions of 

 new or little-known Species. By E. L. Layard, C.M.G., F.Z.S., 

 ifec, H.B.M. Consul 152 



XVI. Ornithological Notes from the Neighbourhood of 

 Buenos Ayres. By Henry Durnfokd 157 



XVII. Notes on the Genus RelminthopJiaga. By Rodert 

 Ridgway 106 



XVIII. Notes on Severtzoff 's ' Fauna of Turkestan ' (Turkes- 

 tanskic Jcvotnic). By H. E. Dresser ........ 171 



XIX. Ornithological Notes made during Trips between 

 Bloemfontein and the Lydenburg Gold-fields. By F. A. Bar- 

 RATT. (Plate IV.) 191 



XX. Notes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora. By Henry 

 Seebohm, F.Z.S., and John A. Harvie Brown. (Plate V.) . 215 



XXI. Notes on a 'Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British 

 Museum,' by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. Gurney . 230 



XXII. On Recent Ornithological Progress in New Guinea. 



By P. L. Sclater 243 



XXIII. Notes on a Collection of Birds from the New He- 

 brides. By H. B. Tristram, F.R.8 259 



XXIV. On Sericidus ccanthogastei\ Schl., and Xanthomelus 

 aureus (Linn.). By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.iS 267 



