CONTENTS OP NUMBER X.— EOTJRTH SERIES. 



Page 

 X. Field-notes on the Eirds of Celebes. By A. B. Meter, M.D., 



C.M.Z.S., &G 125 



, XI. Contributions to the Oi'nithology of Siberia. By Hexry 



Seebohm: 147 



XII. On a Collection of Birds made by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton 



in Western Java. By Francis Nicholso^t, F.Z.S. . . . 164 

 XIII. Xotes upon Three American Ilaptorial Birds apparently new 



to Science. By John Henry Gurney. (Plate III.) . .171 

 XIV. Note on an unusually rufescent Example of Arddhuteo 



Jiemiptilojnis, Blyth. By John Henry Gurney . . .178 

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

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

 New Hebrides by E. L. Layard, C.M.G., &c. By H. B. 



Tristram, F.Il.S 180 



XVI. Note on the Name of the Purple Waterhen of South-west- 

 ern 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 Rio Grande .... 207 



27. Merrill on the Ornithology of Southern Texas 207 



28. Ridgway on 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 Cho'twa 211 



34. Cordeaux on the Migration of Birds 212 



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



30. Elliot on the Genus Porphyrio and its Species 213 



37. Salvador! on the Subgenus Ghhiccra 213 



38. Salvador! 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. 'Bulletin' of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 215 



42. Sharpe on the Birds of Rodriguez 216 



43. Sharpe's Notes from the Leyden Museum 217 



44. Sacli's Llanos of Venezuela 218 



45. Dalgleish's List of tlie Birds of Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire. 219 



46. Moore's ' Columbarium ' 219 



47. Oustalet on Ibises 219 



XIX. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



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



J. II. Gurney ; Note on the Orthography of Phainopepla . . 220 



Memoir of the late Marquis of Tweeddale 223 



Announcement of General Index to the first three Series of 



' The Ibis ' 232 



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