CONTENTS OF NUMBER II. (continued). 



Page 

 64. Prentis's ' Notes on the Birds of Rainham ' 287 



55. Rake on the Breeding of Nyctidromiis albicollis .... I gee 



56. Reichenow on the ]5irds of German East-Africa . . . . ( 



67. Reiser on the Avifauna of the Balkans 289 



58. Rhoads's Edition of Ord's ' Zooloo-y ' 290 



59. Ridgway on new Birds from Galapagos 291 



60. Ridgway on new Birds from the Maacarene Subregion . . 1 



61. Sliarpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidce l 292 



62. Witherby's ' Forest Birds ' j 



XXIV. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. 



Letters from Mr. H. A. Macpherson (two), Captain W. Wilfrid 

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

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

 The Deep Plantars in the TrochilidcB ; Deep Flexor Tendons 

 of Macro'pteryx ; The Fertilization of Flowers by Birds. 

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

 Mr. A. G. JMore, and Mr. George N. Lawrence 293 



Publications received since the issue of No. I, Seventh Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



32. Andehsen. Diomedea vielanojyhrys, boende paa Faeroerne. (Vidensk. 

 Medd. naturh. Furen. Kjobenhavn, 1894, p. 241.) 



33. Annals of Scotish Natural History. (1895, no. 13.) 



34. ' Aquila.' (Vol. ii. nos. 3, 4.) 



35. BtJTTiKOFER. On Two new Birds of Paradise. (Notes Leyden Mas. 

 xvi. p. 161.) 



31). DtTBOis. Faune des Vertebres de la Belgique. (Oiseaux, tome ii. Royal 

 8vo. 1894.) 



37. Dubois. Sur qiielques Oiseaux Nouveaux ou pen Connus. (Mem. Soc. 

 Zool. France, vii. p. 399.) 



38. FiNscii. Zum Schutze des Wasserschwatzers {Cinclus aquaticus). 

 (Zeitfch. f. Fischerei, 1894, Heft 4.) 



39. GoDMAN and Salvin. ' Biologia Centrali-Americana.' (Zoology, Part 

 cxx. Jan. 1895, Aves, Vol. ii. pp. 401-424; pis. lix., lix. a, Ix.) 



40. GuBNEY. Catalogue of the Birds of Prey, with the Number of Speci- 

 mens in Norwich Museum. (8vo. London, 1894.) 



41. Haetert. On some Birds from the Congo Region. (Novitates Zool. 

 ii. p. 55.) 



42. Hartert. On Micropus affinis (Gray & Hardw.). (Novitates Zool. ii. 

 p. 57.) 



43. Harvie-Brown. The Starling in Scotland, its Increase and Distri- 

 bution. (Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1895, p. 1.) 



44. Irby. The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar. Second edition, 

 (Imp. 8vo. London, 1895.) 



45. Lataste. Une semaine de chasse, an mois de juin, dans la hacienda de 

 San Alfonso. (Proces-Verb. Soc. Sci. du Chili, 1894, p. clxvii.) • 



46. Lucas. Notes on the Anatomy and Afhnities of the Ccerehidce and 

 other American Birds. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvii. p. 299.) 



47. Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (xviii. nos. 11, 

 12 ; xix. nos. 1, 2.) 



48. Meyer. Zwei neue Paradiesvogel, (Abh. u Ber. k. zool. Mus, Dresden, 

 1894-95, no. 5.) 



49. Rey. Beobachtungen iiber den Kuckuck bei Leipzig aus dem Jahre 

 1894. (J. f. O. 1895, p. 30.) 



50. Rey. Was ist der Grund fUr die grosze Variabilitat der Kuckukseier. 

 (Oru. Monats. Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze Vogelw. 1895, p. 1.) 



51. Robinson. A Flying Trip to the Tropica. (Royal 8vo. Cambridge, 

 1896.) 



52. Rothschild. On a new Miro from the New Zealand Region. (Novi- 

 tates Zool. i. p. 688.) 



53. Rothschild. Note on the Loaops of Oahu. (Novitates Zool. ii, p. 54.) 



54. Rothschild. On Salvadorina toaigiuensis, Rothsch. & Hartert. (Novi- 

 tates Zool. ii. p. 53.) 



