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XIV. Note on an unusually rufcscent Example of Archi- 

 buteo hemiptilopus, Blyth. By John Henky Gurney . . . 178 



XV. Notes on Collections of Birds sent from New Caledonia, 

 from Lifu (one of the Loyalty Islands), and from the New 

 Hebrides by E. L. Laj-ard, C.M.Gr., &c. By H. B. TpasTRAM, 

 F.R.S. (Plates IV.-VI.) ISO 



XVI. Note ou the Name of the Purple Waterhen of South- 

 western Europe. By P. L. Sclater 195 



XVII. On a Collection of Birds from the Sierra Nevada of 

 Santa Marta, Columbia. By 0. Salvin and F. D. Godman . 196 



XVIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



26. Sennett on the Birds of the Lower llio Grande . . 207 



27. MerriU on the Ornithology of Southern Texas . . . 207 



28. Ridgway ou the American Species of Scops .... 209 



29. Ridgway on a new Humming-bird from Guatemala . 209 



30. Lawrence on the Birds of St. Vincent 209 



31. Lawrence on the Birds of Dominica 210 



32. Lawrence on the Birds of Antigua and Barbuda . .211 



33. Lawrence on a new Species of Chcetara 211 



34. Cordeaux on the Migration of Birds 212 



35. A. Milne-Edwards on the Genus Mesites .... 212 



36. Elliot on the Genus Forpliyrio and its Species . . . 213 



37. Salvadori on the Subgenus Glohicera 213 



38. Salvadori on new and rare Birds from the Sanghir 



Islands 214 



39. Salvadori's Prodromus of Papuan Ornithology . . . 214 



40. Boucard on Guatemalan Birds 214 



41. ' BuUetin ' of the NuttaU Ornithological Club . . .215 



42. Sharpe on the Birds of Rodriguez 216 



43. Sharpe's Notes from the Leyden Museum .... 217 



44. Sach's Llanos of Venezuela 218 



45. Dalgleish's List of the Birds of Ardnamurchan, 



Argyllshire 219 



46. Moore's 'Columbarium' 219 



47. Oustalet on Ibises 219 



XIX. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. H. Gatke, E. L. Layard, D. G. Elliot, and 

 J. H. Gurney ; Note on the Orthography of Phainojtepla . . 220 



