CONTENTS. XXUl 



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56. Reichenow on the Birds of German East-Africa . . 288 



57. Reiser on the Avifauna of the Balkans 289 



58. Rhoads's Edition of Ord's ' Zoology ' 290 



59. Ridgway on new Birds from the Galapagos , . . 291 



60. Ridgway on new Birds from the Masearene Subregion 292 



61. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidce 292 



62. Witherby's ' Forest Birds ' 292 



XXIV. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. : — 



Letters from Rev. H. A. Macpherson (two), Capt. W. Wilfrid 

 Cordeaus, Mr. Herluf Winge, Messrs. Abel and Alfred C. 

 Chapman, Mr. W. P. Pycraft, and the Rev. Canon Tristram. 

 The Deep Plantars in the Trochilidce ; Deep Plexor Tendons 

 of Macrojiteryx ; The Fertilization of Flowers by Birds. 

 Obituary. — Mr. Alfred Forbes Sealy, Mr. Edward Hargitt; 

 Mr. A. G. Moore, and Mr. George N. Lawrence (first notices) ; 

 R. Champley, C. M. Adams 293 



Number TIT., July. 



XXV. Notes on South Formosa and its Birds. By John 



D. DE La Totjche 305 



XXVI. Preliminary Descriptions of a new Genus and of five 

 new Species of Central Australian Birds. By Alfred J. 

 North, F.L.S., Australian Museum, Sydney 339 



XXVIT. On the Bower-bird recently described by Mr. C. W. 

 De Vis as Cnemophilus maria;. By P. L. Sclatee, M.A., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S. (Plate VIII.) 343 



XXVIII. On the Pterylography of the Hoatzin, Opistliocomus 

 cristatus. By W. P. PrcEAFT, M.B.O.U,, Assistant to the Linacre 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford. (Plates IX.-XI.) . 345 



XXIX. Further Notes on Birds from Bugotu, Solomon 

 Islands, with Description of a new Species. By H. B. Tristram, 

 D.D., LL.D., F.R.S 373 



XXX. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Nos. 

 XXV.-XXVII 376 



