CONTENTS OF VOL. III.— FIFTH SERIES. 



(1885.) 



Number IX., January. 



Page 



I. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. IX. On the Genus Micro- 

 pternus. By Edavakd IIakoitt, F.Z.S 1 



II. On the Muscicapine Genus Chasiempis. By P. L. Sclater, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.E.S. (Plate I.) 17 



III. On the Aftershaft in the Feathers of certain Birds. By 

 F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.Z.S., Prosector to the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London 19 



IV. Ornithological Notes from Corsica. By John White- 

 head. (Plate II.) 24 



V. On two Birds from Norfolk Island. By H. B. Tristram, 

 D.D., F.R.S 48 



VI. On the Shedding of the Claws in the Ptarmigan and 

 allied Birds. By Leonhard Stejneger 50 



VII. On the Birds of Central India.- — Part I. By Lieut.-Col. 



C. SwiNHOE and Lieut. Henry Barnes 52 



VIII. The Ornithology of St. Kilda. By Charles Dixon. 

 (Plate III.) 69 



IX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway on the Water-Birds of 



North America . 97 



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