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XXXVII. Additional Notes ou various Indian Birds. By 



R. C. Beavan, Bengal Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S 403 



XXXVIII. On rare or little-known lAmicolce. By James 

 Edmund Hartixg, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (Plate XII.) 426 



XXXIX. Notes on some African Birds. By the Rev, H. 



B. Tristram, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c 434 



XL. Notes on the Bills of the species of Flamingo (Phcenico- 

 pterus). By G. R. Gray, F.R.S. &c. (Plates XIII.-XV.) . 438 



XLI. Notes on the Birds-of-prey of Madagascar and some 

 of the adjacent Islands. By J. H. Gurnet, F.Z.S. (Plate 

 XVI.) 443 



XLII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. C. Home, A. 0. Hume, W. E. Brooks, 

 E. L. Layard, and R. B. Sharpe, Sir William Jardine, and 

 Messrs. P. L. Sclater, J. H. Gurney, and Swinhoe ; Announce- 

 ment of Mr. G. R. Gray's ' Hand-list of Bii-ds ' and of Mr. 

 EUiot's proposed Monograph of the Fhasianidce ; Delay of 

 Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications 454 



Index 465 



