CONTENTS OF VOL. I. (1859.) 



Number I., January. 



Page 

 I. On the Ornithology of Central America. By Philip 

 LuTLEif ScLATEB and OsBEET Saltik. Part 1 1 



II Notes on Birds observed in Southern Palestine in 

 the months of March and April 1858. By the Eev. H. B. 

 Tbisteam, F.L.S 22 



III. Ornithological Reminiscences of Egypt. By E. 

 Cavendish Tatlob, M.A., E.Z.S 41 



IV. On the diiferent Methods of preparing Natural Skele- 

 tons of Birds. By T. C. Etton, E.Z.S 55 



V. Characters of apparently New Species of Birds collected 

 in the Great Desert of the Sahara, southwards of Algeria and 

 Tunis. By the Rev. H. B. Tbistbam, E.L.S 57 



VI. Observations on the Birds of St. Croix, West Indies, 

 made between February 20th and August 6th, 1857, by 

 Alfbed Newton, and between March 4th and September 

 28th, 1858, by Edwabd Newton. Part I. (Plate I.) . . 59 



VII. On the Breeding of the Smew, Mergus albellus. By 

 John "Wolley, jun 69 



VIII. Recent Discoveries in European Oology. By Wil- 

 liam C. Hewitson. (Plate II.) 76 



IX. Review of Mr. Bbee's " Birds of Europe not observed 



in the British Isles" 81 



X. Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English publications: — Gould's ' Humming Birds,' pts. 

 15, 16 ; Gould's * Birds of Asia,' pt. 10 ; Gould's ' Monograph 

 of the Trogons,' new ed., pt, 1 ; Eyton's ' Osteologia Avium ' ; 

 Bree's * European Birds ' ; Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoo- 



