XIV CONTENTS. 



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 the islands of Bass's Straits. From the Journal of Robert 

 Elwes 397 



XLI. Notes on some of the Humming-birds of Ecuador 

 figured in Mr. Grould's Monograph. By Dr. William Jame- 

 son of Quito, and Louis Fkasee, Corr. Memb. Zool. Soe. . 399 



XLII. Eeview of Herr Badek:ee's and Dr. Brewer's 

 Oological "Works 400 



XLIII. On the Ornithology of jSTorthern Africa. BytheEev. 

 H.B.Tristeam,M.A.,F.L.S. Partlll. The Sahara (continued) 415 



XLIV. A List of the Tyrant-birds of Mexico, with de- 

 scriptions of some new species. By Philip Lutlet Sclater, 

 M.A. (Plate XIV.) 436 



XLV. Note on Pel's Owl {Scotopelia peli). By John 

 Henet Gurnet, M.P., P.Z.S. (Plate XV.) 445 



XL VI. L3tter from Mr. Wallace concerning the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Birds 449 



XLVII. Recent Ornithological publications. 



1. English puhlications : — Gould's 'Monograph of the Hum- 

 ming-birds,' pts.xvii.,xviii. ; Gould's Supplement to 'The Birds 

 of Australia,' pt. iii. ; Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society 1859, pt i. ; Bree's ' European Birds ' ; Annals of Na- 

 turalHistory; Colliugwood's 'Migration of Birds' and 'Fauna 

 of Blackheath ' ; E. Vernon Harcourt's ' Sporting in Algeria' ; 

 The Zoologist, Osburn on the Birds of Jamaica 454 



2. French publications : — Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ; 

 Malherbe's ' Monographie des Pics ' 457 



3. German, Dutch, and Russian publications : — Cabanis' 

 Journal fiir Ornithologie ; Naumannia, 1858, pts iv., v., vi. ; 

 Schlegel and Herklots's ' Fauna von Nederland' ; Hofman's 



' Nordliche Ural ' 458 



4. American publications : — Pacific R. R. Reports, vol. x. ; 

 Brewer's ' N. American Oology ' ; Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for 1858 ; Proceedings of the Academy of Phila- 

 phia for July 460 



XLVIII. Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, 

 &c. 



Mr. Edward Newton's departure for the Mauritius ; Mr. 



