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XXXII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



48. Barboza du Bocage's ' Melanges Ornithologiqiies ' . . 352 



49. Barboza du Bocage on West-African Birds .... 352 



50. Barrows's Catalogue of the Alcidae 353 



51. Beccari's Ornithological letter from Sumatra . . . 353 



52. Bendire on the Birds of South-eastern Oregon . . . 353 



53. Cabanis on East- African Birds 354 



54. Coues on the Birds of Dakota and Montana . . . 354 



55. Coues on the Birds of the Colorado Valley .... 355 



56. Fischer and Reichenow on Birds from Zanzibar , . 355 



57. Gibson on Birds from the Straits of Magellan . . . 356 



58. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 356 



59. Hooker and BaU's Tour in Morocco 356 



60. Lawrence on the Birds of Grenada 357 



61. Merriam on the Birds of Connecticut 357 



62. Meyer on the Sexes of Eclectus 358 



63. Moseley's ' Naturalist on the Challenger ' . . . . 358 



64. Miiller on the Vocal Organs of the Passeres . . . 358 



65. Newton on Hawking in Norfolk 359 



66. Oustalet on a new Bronze Starling 359 



67. Pelzeln's Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 1877 359 



68. Ramsay on a new Ptilotis 360 



69. Ramsay on a new Myiolestes 360 



70. Ramsay on new Birds from Torres Straits and New 



Guinea 360 



71. Ramsay on Birds from New Guinea 360 



72. Reichenow's Catalogue of the Bird-show of the 



"^gintha" 361 



73. Rosenberg's ' Malay Archipelago ' 361 



74. Reinhardt on a new M'ltua 362 



75. Reinhardt on a Bird new to Greenland 362 



76. Sharpe's Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum , 362 



77. Sharpe on the Birds collected by Dr. A. B. Meyer in 



New Guinea 363 



XXXIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. T. Salvador!, E. L. Layard (two), R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe (two), Lord Clifton (two), Dr. T. M. Brewer, Hr. 

 V. Pelzeln, Sir J. W. P. Orde, and Hr. H. Giitke ; Proposed 

 Index to Reichenbach's 'Avium Svstema Naturale;' NeAv 



