CONTENTS OF NUMBER II. 



Page 

 XII. On the Ornithology of Central America. Part II. By Philip 



LuTLEYScLATERandOsBERxSALviN. (Platcs IV. and V.) 1 17 



XIII. Observations on the Birds of St. Croix, West Indies, made 

 between February 20th and August Gth 18.07 by Alfred 

 Newton, and between March 4th and September 28th 

 1858 by Edward Newton. (Part II.) 138 



XIV. Account of a Visit to a Nesting-place of the Frigate-bird 

 (Freyata aquila). From a letter of George Cavendish 

 Taylor, Esq ir>0 



XV. List of Birds received from Ibadan, in Western Africa. By 



John Henry Gurney, Esq., M.P 152 



XVI. On the Ornithology of Northern Africa. By the Rev. II. B. 



Tristram, F.L.S. (Parti.) 153 



XVII. Remarks on the Harlequin Duck (Ilistrionicus torquatus, 



Bp.). By Alfred Newton, M. A., F.L.S 1G2 



XV^llI. Notes on the Birds of Western Spitzbergcn, as observed in 



1855. By Edward Evans and Wilson Sturge 1 GG 



XIX. Five Months' Birds' -nesting in the Eastern Atlas. By 



OsBERTSALViN,Corr.Memb.Zool.Soc. Parti. (Plate VI.) 174 



XX. On the Breeding of the Crane (Grus cinerea) in Lapland. 



By John Wolley, jun 191 



XXI. Recent Ornithological Publications 1 98 



XXII. Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, &c 206 



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