CONTENTS OP NUMBER XXI.— THIRD SERIES. 



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 I. Second Thoughts ou the Genus Micrastur. By Egbert Ridg- 

 WAY, of the Ornithological Department, U.S. National Mu- 

 seum, Washington 1 



II. Remarks on some Type Specimens of Trochilidse from the 

 Museums of Neuchatel and Florence. By D. G. Elliot, 

 F.B.S.E., F.L.S., &c 5 



III. The Genus Glancidiwn. By Robert Ridgwat, of the Ornitho- 



logical Department, U.S. National Museum, Washington. 

 (Plate I.) 11 



IV. Notes on the Ornithology of Corsica. By C. Bygrave Whar- 



ton, F.Z.S 17 



V. Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. — Part I. By R. 



BowDLER Sharpe. (Plate II.) 29 



VI. Descriptions of two new Species of South-African Birds. By 

 R. BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Senior Assistant, 

 Zoological Department, British Museum 52 



VII. Notes on the Trochilidae. The Genus Lampropygia. By D. 



G. Elliot, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c ' .... 54 



VIII. Ornithological Notes from Constantinople. By P. L. Sclateb 



and E. C. Taylor 60 



IX. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Museum,' 



by R. Bowdler Sharpe. By J. H. Gtjrney. (Plate III.) . 65 



X. Notes on SevertzofF's 'Fauna of Turkestan' (Turkestan skie Je- 



votnie). By H. E. Dresser 77 



XI. On the Assignation of a Type to Linnaean Genera, with especial 

 reference to the Genus Strix. By Alfred Newton, M.A., 

 F.R.S., &c '. 94 



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



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



XIII. Letters, Announcements, <kc. : — 



Letters from Capt. Legge, Mr. Cordeaux, Mr. Gurney, Mr. D. G. 

 Elliot, Mr. T. E. Buckley, and Viscount Walden . . '. . . . .126 



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