CONTENTS OF NUMBER XI. {continued), 



97. Pagenstecher's ' Birds of South Georgia ' 319 



98. Protocol of the International Ornithologists' Congress ) „n(\ 



99. Report of the Harvard Museum of Zoology . . . . j 



100. Ridgway on new Birds from Cozumel Island .... 321 



101. Rochebrune's ' Birds of Senegambia ' 322 



102. Saunders's Edition of ' Yarrell's British Birds ' . . .1 qoo 



103. Sharpe on the Fringilliformes j 



104. Shufeldt on the Osteology of Cen/le alcyon . . . . j 



105. Shufeldt on the Osteology of Numenius longirostris . K n^f. 



106. Traquair on Biological Nomenclature j 



107. Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen on the Long-tailed Tits of "I 



Europe I 



108. Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen on the Summer Duck in Styria ^ 326 



109. Vorderman on the Birds of Batavia | 



110. "Vorderman's 'List of Ja van Birds' J 



111. 'The Young Oologist' 327 



XXXIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from the Rev. H. H. Slater and Mr. Osbert Salvin ; 

 Anniversary of the British Ornithologists' Union ; New 

 Ornithological Work ; Prjevalsky's New Expedition ; The 

 Ridgway Ornithological Club, Chicago, U.S.A. ; Birds 

 breeding in Ants' Nests ; Birds at Scotch Lighthouses ; 

 Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Departure 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 



Publications received since the issue of No. 10, Fifth Series, 

 and not noticed in the present number. 



37. Beckham. Notes on some of the Birds of Pueblo, Colorado. (The 

 Auk, vol. ii.) 



38. BLOALEFrELD. Reminiscences of Wilham Yarrell. (8vo. Bath, 1885.) 



39. CoEY. A List of the Birds of the West Indies. (4to. 1885.) 



40. Dubois. Revue des Oiseaux observes en Belgique. (Bull. Mus. R. 

 d'Hist. Nat. Belgique, iv. 1885.) 



41. Mitchell. The Birds of Lancashire. (Svo. 1885.) 



42. Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (Section fiir 

 Gefliigelzucht &c. 1885, Jahr. 2, Nos. 11-14. Section fiir Vogelkunde &c. 

 1885, Jahr. 9, No. 4.) 



43. Nathusius. Ueber die charakteristischen Unterscheidungszeichen ver- 

 schiedener Straussen-Eier. (J. f. 0. 1885.) 



44. Nehkkorn. Zur Avifauna der Insel Waigeu. (J. f. O. 1886.) 



45. Ornithologist and Oologist. Vol. x. no. 5. 



46. SalvadorI e Giglioli. Due nuove specie di Uccelli della Cocincina. 

 (Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, xx. 1885.) 



47. Shufeldt. Variations in the Form of the Beak, that take place during 

 its Growth, in the Short-tailed Albatross. (The Auk, vol. ii.) 



48. Stejneger. Remarks on Lanius rohiistus. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philad. 1885.) 



49. Tait. As Aves em Portugal. Parts 1-3. (Revista da Sociadade de 

 instruc^ao do Porto, 1883-84.) 



