CONTENTS. Xm 



Page 

 tliology of tlie U. S. Exploring Expedition ' ; Proceedings of 



the Academy of Philadelphia ; Baird's Catalogue of North 



American Birds 325 



XXXII. Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, An- 

 nouncements, &c. 



Death of Mr. Edward Evans ; Letter from Mr. Eowley on 

 the Dartford Warbler, &c. ; from Mr. Hawker on a supposed 

 nest of the Ash-coloured Shrike ; Mr. Wallace's discovery of 

 a second Paradise-bird in Batchian ; Mr. Eraser's proceedings 

 in Ecuador ; Mr. Salvin's return to Guatemala ; Prof. Baird's 

 Account of Progress of Natural History in the U. S. ; Arrival 

 of a pair of Bennett's Cassowary and other Birds at the 

 Zoolofrical Gardens 329 



Number IV. October. 



XXXIII. List of Birds observed and collected during a 

 Voyage in the B-ed Sea. By Dr. Theodob von Heuglin. 

 Edited and translated by Dr. G. Haetlaub. (Pates X. 

 and XI.) 337 



XXXIV. Five Months' Birds'-nesting in the Eastern Atlas. 



By Osbeet Salvin, B.A., Corr. Memb. Zool. Soc. (Part III.) 352 



XXXV. Observations on the Birds of St. Croix, West 

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

 Alfred Newton, and between March 4th and September 

 28th, 1858, by Edward Newton. Part IV. (Plate XII.) . 365 



XXXVI. On the occurrence of White's Thrush {Oreocincla 

 aurea) near Stratford-on-Avon, with remarks on the genera 

 Oreocincla, Turdus, and Merula. By Robert F. Tomes . . 379 



XXXVII. List of Birds of Prey received from Beyrout. 



By John Henry Gurney, M.P., F.Z.S 389 



XXXVIII. Descriptions of Six new Species of Birds. By 

 Daniel G. Elliot of New York. (Plate XIII.) . . . .391 



XXXIX. On the habits of the Black-winged Stilt as ob- 

 served on its occurrence in Sussex. By A. E. Knox . , . 395 



XL. Note on the breeding and mode of capture of the 

 Sliort-tailed Petrel or Mutton-bird {Pwffinus ohscurus) in 



