CONTENTS OE NUMBER IX.— EIETH SElllES. 



Page 

 I. Notes on "Woodpeckers. — No. IX, On the Genus MicrOjjternus. 



By EuwARD Haegixt, F.Z.S 1 



II. On the Muscicapine Genus Ghasiempis. By P. L. Sclatek, 



M.A., Ph.D., r.ll.S. (Plate I.) 17 



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

 F. E. Beddaed, M.A., F.L.S., Prosector to the Zoological 



Society of Loudon 19 



IV. Ornithological Notes from Coj-sica. By Joun WuixEHEAn. 



(Plate II.) 24 



V. On two Birds from Norfolk Island. Bv II. B. Tiustkam, D.D., 



F.R.S ' 48 



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



Birds. By LEoiraARD Sxejnegek 50 



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



Swinhoe and Lieut. IIexey Barnes 52 



VIII. The Ornithology of St. Kilda. By Charles Dison. (Plate IIL) 60 

 IX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway on the Water-Bu-ds of North 



America 97 



2. Barboza du Bocage on Birds from Angola "j 



3. ]3arboza du Bocage oa West- African Birds j 



4. Barboza du Bocag-e oa Cinnyris erikssoni J;- f>8 



5. Bekling on the Birds of Giiaymas I 



6. Beldi:]g ou the Birds of Lo\Ter California J 



7. Bullcr on rare New-Zealand Birds ; „ 



8. Cory ou tlie Birds of Sau Domingo \ 



9. Coues's new Key to Ndrlli-American Bird,^ 100 



10. Cowan on the Birds of Madagascar . K) 1 



11. Da Verleuil's 'Trinidad.' (Second edition.) 102 



12. De Via on the Moa in Australia j ., 



18. Dresser's Monograph of the Bee- eaters \ 



14. Dubo;s on a new Parrot from New Guinea ) 



15. Filhol on the Osteology of the Penguin; (mi 



16. Filhol on the Diaphragm of the Penguins ( 



17. Filhol ou the Arterial System of the Penguins . . . .) 



IS. Guruey on tlie Arctic Blue-tliroaled \Varblor in NoivJk. ( ,„. 



19. Guniey on the " Hairy " variety of the Moarliea . . . j 



20. Haast ou the Grey Phalarope in New Zeah/ud . . . . i 



21. Honieyer and Tancre on the Birds of the Altai . . . . • 100 



22. Jouy on the Birds of Japan | 



23. Lawrence on a uew Hemiprocne \ m\- 



24. Lydekker on Siwalik Fossil Birds { ^^' 



25. Milne-Edwards on the Fauna of the Antarctic Regions . .108 



26. Murray's ' Vertebrate Zoology of Sind' I in'> 



27. Nutting ou Birds from Nicaragua ( 



28. Przewalski's .Journey in Tibet 110 



20. Radde's ' Oruis Cauca;-ica ' Ill 



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