CONTENTS OF NUMBER 1. 



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 I. On the Ornithology of Central America. By Philip Lutley 



ScLATER and OsBERT Salvin. (Part I.) 1 



II. Notes on Birds observed in Southern Palestine in the months of 



March and April 1858. By the Rev. H. B. Tristram, F.L.S. 22 



III. Ornithological Reminiscences of Egypt. By E. Cavendish 

 Taylor, M.A., F.Z.S 41 



IV. On the different Methods of preparing Natural Skeletons of 

 Birds. By T. C. Eyton, F.Z.S 5.5 



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. Tristram, F.L.S 57 



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

 tween February 20th and August 6th 1857 by Alfred New- 

 ton, and between March 4th and September 28th 1858 by 

 Edward Newton. Part I. (Plate I.) 59 



VII. On the Breeding of the Smew, Mergus alhellus. By John 



Wolley, jun C9 



VIII. Recent Discoveries in European Oology. By William C. 



Hewitson. (Plate II.) 7(i 



IX. Review of Mr. Bree's " Birds of Europe not observed in the 



British Isles " 81 



X. Recent Ornithological Publications 99 



XI. Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, &c. (Plate III.) . . Ill 



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