CONTENTS. xix. 



Page 

 XXXIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from the Rev. H. H. Slater and Mr. Osbcrt 8alvin ; 

 Anniversary of the British Ornithologists' Union ; Xew Orni- 

 thological Work ; Prjevalsky's New Expedition ; The llidg^ay 

 Ornithological Club, Chicago, U.S.A. ; Birds breeding in Ants' 

 Nests ; Birds at Scotch Lighthouses ; Mr. R. B. Sharpe's De- 

 parture for Simla ; Obituary — Mr. Ernest William White, Dr. 

 Eduard Riippell, and Richard Boehm ; News of Dr. Finsch ; 

 New Expeditions ; New Work on the Swallows 327 



Number XIL, October. 



XXXIV. Additional Notes on the Ornithology of Transvaal, 



By Thomas Aykes. Communicated by John Henry Gijrney . 341 



XXXV. On the Birds of the L'pper Tarim, Kashgaria. By 



M. Menzbier 352 



XXXVI. Further Notes on the Ornithology of St. Kilda. 



By Charles Dixon 358 



XXXVII. Note on Baza ceyJonensis, Legge. By Samuel 

 Bligh. Communicated by J. H. Gurney- 362 



XXXVIII. Further Contributions to the Ornithology of 

 Japan. By Henry Seeboum 363 



XXXIX. An Autumn Ramble in Eastern Iceland, with 

 some Notes from the Faroes. By Wm. Eagle Claeke, F.L S., 

 and James Backhouse, Jun. (Plate IX.) 364 



XL. Stray Ornithological Notes. By W. Edavin Brooks . 380 



XLI. On Mr. E. Lort Phillips's Collection of Birds from 

 Somali-land. By Capt. G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S. (Plates X.-XII.) 389 



XLII. A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely 

 in British Guiana. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 

 (Continued.) 418 



