CONTENTS OE NUMBER XI.— EOURTH SERIES. 



Page 

 XX. Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S. &c. Part IV.— On the Birds of 

 the Province of Lumbidan, North-western Borneo. 



(Plates VII. & VIII.) 233 



XXI. Notes on a Collection of Birds' Skins and Eggs made by 



Mr. D. Gill, F.Il.A.S., on Ascension Island. By P. G. ^^ 



Penrose -^'2 



XXII. l^otes on the 3Iilv us govinda oiSykes. By W. Edwin Brooks 282 



XXIII. Additional Xotes on the Ornithology of Transvaal. By 



Thomas Ayres, Communicated by John Henrt Gurney 285 



XXIV. On Melaniparus semilarvatus. By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 



(Plate IX.) 300 



XXV. On the Systematic Position and Scientific Name of " le Per- 



roquet mascarin " of Brisson. By W. A. Forbes. . . 303 

 XXVI. Remarks on the Genus Sylvia and on the Synonymy of the ^ 



Species. By Henry Seebohm .... .... 308 



XXVII. Remarks on the Second Part of Mr. Ramsay's ' Contributions 



to the Zoology of New Guinea.' By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 31 7 

 XXVIII. Report on the Ornithological Acquisitions of the British 



Museum in 1878 32 < 



XXIX. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British 



Museum.' By R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. ^ 

 Gerney 330 



XXX. Notes on the Birds of the Straits of Gibraltar. By L. 



Howard Irby 342 



XXXI. Remarks on the Nomenclature of the British Owls, and on 



the Arrangement of the Order Striges. By P. L. Sclater 346 



XXXII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications :— 



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



49. Barboza du Bocage on West- African Birds 852 



50. Barrows's Catalogue of the Alcidte ... 353 



51. Beccari's Ornithological letter from Sumatra 353 



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



• 53. Cabanis on East-.lfrican 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 Reicbeuow on Birds from Zanzibar .... 355 



57. Gibson on Birds from the Straits of Magellan 350 



58. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 350 



59. Hooker and Ball's Tour in Marocco 356 



60. Lawi'ence on the Birds of Grenada 357 



61. Merriam on the Birds of Connecticut 357 



62. Meyer on the Sexes of JSclectus 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. Pelzelu's Report ou 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 3Iitua 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 Br. A. B, Meyer in New 



Guinea 363 



XXXIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. T. Salvadori, E. L, Layard (tvro), R. Bowdler 

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