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XXIX. Ornithological Letters from the Pacific. — IX. Xew 

 Zealand. By Otto Finsch, Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U., C.M.Z.S., &c. . 391 



XXX. Ornithological Xotes of a Journey through Syria, Me- 

 sopotamia, and Southern Armenia in 1881 . By H. B. Tristkam, 

 r.E.S ' 402 



XXXI. Further Xotes on the Ornithology of Siberia. Bv 

 Heney Seebohji 419 



XXXII. On a new Species of Hemipode from New Britain. 

 By W. A. F'oRUEs, B.A., M.B.O.U., Prosector to the Zoological 

 Society. (Plate XII.) 428 



XXXIII. Xotes on a Collection of Birds made on the River 

 Yangtse-kiang. By Rev. II. H. Slater, F.Z.S 431 



XXXIV. Xotes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in tho 

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

 GURNEY 436 



XXXV. On some Ra])torial Birds recently acquired by the 

 Norwich Museum. By J. H. GrRNEi' 452 



XXXVI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



53. Adamson's ' Scraps about Birds ' 457 



54. Barboza du Bocage on West-African Birds .... 457 



55. Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club .... 458 



56. Collett on new Norwegian Birds 458 



57. Collett on the Ear-formation of the North-European 



Owls 458 



58. Cowan on Madagascar Birds 459 



59. CruttweU's 'Table of the Animal Kingdom' . . . 459 



60. Dalgleish on Birds and Eggs from Uruguay . . , 459 



61. Dresser's ' Birds of Europe ' 459 



62. Godraan and Sulvin's ' Biologia Centrali-Aniericaiia ' . 460 



63. Gould's ' Birds of Asia ' 461 



64. Gray on Eggs of the Great Auk 461 



65. Gray on rare Scottisli Birds 462 



66. Gray on the Pintail Duck in the Outer Hebrides . . 462 



67. Holub and Pelzeln's ' Ornithologie Siidafrikas ' . . 462 



68. Holub on the Ornis of South Africa 462 



69. Johnson on the Natural History of Mossamedes . . 463 



70. Lawrence on Birds from Yucatan 463 



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