CONTENTS OF NUMBER V.— THIED SERIES. 



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I. Supplementary Notes to ' The Birds of India.' By T. C. Jer- 

 DON, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Retired Deputy Inspector-General of 

 Hospitals, Madras . [Continued from 3rd series, vol. i. 1871, 

 p. 356.] (Plate I.) 1 



II. On a new species of Phylloscopus. By "W. E, Brooks, C.E., 



Etawah, India 22 



III. On the Breeding of Beguloides superciliosus, Reguloides prore- 



gulus, Reguloides occipitcdis, and Phi/Uoscopus tytleri. By 

 W. E. Brooks, C.E 24 



IV. On an undescribed Bird from the Island of Rodriguez. By 



Alfred Newxon, M.A., F.R.S., &c 31 



V. Notes and Descriptions of some Birds lately added to the Mu- 

 seum, Canterbury, New Zealand. By Thomas H. Potts . 35 



VI. A Revision of the species of the FringiUine Genus Sycalis. By 



P. L. ScLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. (Plates II. and III.) 39 



VII. On Nyctale Mrtlandi. By D. G. Elliot, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. . 48 



VIII. Observations on Picicorvm cohnnbianus. By Elliott Coues, 



M.D., U.S.A 52 



IX. Notes on the Birds of Novaja Zemlia and "VVaigats Island. By 



Th. von HEUGLIJf 60 



X. On Recent Collections of Birds from the Fantee Country, in 



Western Africa. By R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S. &c., Librarian 



to the Zoological Society of London 66 



XI. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Commander Sperling, Mr. Howard Savmders (two 

 letters), Mr. A. Anderson, JNIi'. J. H. Gumey, Captain F, W. 

 Huttou, Mr. W. T. Blanford, and Mr. Blyth. Announcement of 

 Dr. Bessels's embarkation with Capt. Hall's North Polar Expedi- 

 tion ; Necrological notice of the late Mr. E. C. Newcome ; Mr. 

 W. T. Blanford's appointment on the Persian Boundary Expe- 

 dition : ]Nir. Salmon's new Expedition to the United States of 

 Columbia 74 



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