CONTENTS OF NUMBEK IX.— EOURTH SEKIES. 



I. Contributions to the Ornithology of Siberia. By Hexet See- 



BOHM I 



II. Remarks on Messrs. Blakiston and Fryer's Catalogue of the 



Birds of Japan. By Henry Seebohm. (Plate I.) . . . 18 



III, Field-notes on the Birds of Celebes. By A. B. Meyer, M.D., 



C.M.Z.S., Director of the Zoological Museum, Dresden . . 43 



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



by E,. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. Gurnet ... 71 



Y. On Agapornis swinderniana. By Dr. G. Hartlaub .... 84 

 VI. Note on the American Crows of the Subgenus Xanthara. By 



P. L. SCLATER 87 



YII. On recent Additions to our Knowledge of the Avifauna of the 



Sandwich Islands. By P. L. Sclatek. (Plate II.) . . . 8!) 

 VIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. 'Bulletin' of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 92 



2. ' Bidletin ' of the Zoological Society of France, 1877 . . . *.):} 



3. Godwin- Austen on Birds from North-eas^t India 04 



4. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' r4 



/5. Grandidier on a new Owl 95 



(J. Layard on new Birds from Lifu 9o 



7. Legge on a new Scops Owl 96 



8. Masters on Birds from Port Darwin 96 



9. Meyer on a Cassowarj^ from New Guinea 96 



10. Nares and Feilden's ' Voyage to the Polar Sea ' 97 



11. Oustalet on the Ornithology of the Seychelles 97 



12. Oustalet on the Female of Pitla ellioti 97 



13. Oustalet on South-American Pelicans 98 



14. Owen on the Extinct Birds of New Zealand ....'.. 98 



15. Ramsay on Edoliusoma schisticeps 98 



16. Ramsay on a new Paclnicephala 98 



17. Ramsay on a new lanthcenas 99 



18. Ramsay on Birds from the New Hebrides 99 



19. Reichenow on Foreign Cage-birds 99 



20. Russ on Foreign Cage-birds 99 



21. Russ on a new Parrot 100 



22. Salvadori on new Species of liectes 100 



2.3. Saunders on the Distribution of the Laridae 100 



24. ' Stray Feathers,' Vol. vi 101 



25, Taczanowski on the Birds of Poland 102 



IX. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from H. Gatke, II. W. Feilden, T, Salvadori, E, L. 

 Layard and E. L, C, Layard (two), Dr, Otto Finsch, A. B, 

 Brooke, and T, M. Brewer ; Habits of 7Vu(/on sunccwa ; Dr, 

 Finsch "s Expedition ; A New Form of Certhiidae ; Additions 

 to the Collection of Birds in the British Museum in 1877 ; 

 The Swinhoe Collection ; Substantives as Specific Names ; New 

 British Bird ; The Breeding-places of the Black Stoik ; Gear\''8 

 'Asiatic Turkev;' New works in preparation; Obituary of Mr. 



ILDurnford; Death of Dr, Stolker ; Death of Mr, G.D.Rowley 102 



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