CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVIL— NEW SERIES. 



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 I. Stray Notes on Ornithology in India. By Allan Hume, C.B 1 



II. The Bird-Stations of the Outer Hebrides. By Henry John Elwes, Lieut. 



and Capt. Scots Fusilier Guards, F.Z.S 20 



III. On some New Species of New-Zealand Birds. By Walter Buller, F.L.S., 



C.M.Z.S 37 



IV. Notes on Birds observed near Nynee Tal and Almorah, from April to June 



1868. By W. E. Brooks, C.E ' 43 



V. On some new Procellariidce collected during a Voyage round the "World in 

 1865-68 bj H.I.M.'s S. '\Magenta' By Henry Hillyer Giglioli, Sc.D., 

 C.M.Z.S., Naturalist to the Expedition, and Thomas Salvadori, M.D., 

 C.M.Z.S., Assistant in the Royal Zoological Museum of Turin .... 61 



VI. Further Notes on South- African Ornithology. By E. L. Layard, F.Z.S. 68 



VII. The Malurince of North-Eastern Africa. By Dr. M. T. von Hetjglin. 



(Plates I.-III.) 79 



VIII. Notices of Eecent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English : — Gould's ' Birds of Great Britaia,' parts xiii. and xiv. ; Sclater and Sal- 



via's ' Exotic Ornithology,' parts vii. and viii. ; A. C. Smith's ' Nile and its 

 Banks;' Barnard's Translation of PaijkuU's ' Simimer in Iceland ' .... 108 



2. Dutch: — Schlegel and Pollen — 'Recherches sur la Faime de Madagascar/ livr. iv. 112 



3. German : — Von Pelzeln's ' Ornithologie Brasiliens,' Abth. ii 113 



4. Portuguese : — Bocage on West- African Ornithology . . .117 



5. American: — Coues's " Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina " 118 



IX. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. Allan Hume, Colonel Tytler, Messrs. J. Hepburn, Van Wicke- 



voort-Crommelin, and Gould 120 



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