CONTENTS. XXV 



29. SheUey's ' Birds of Africa,' Vol. ii. pt. 2 146 



30. Stirling and Zietz ou Genyornis neivtoni 147 



31. Ussher and Warren's ' Birds of Ireland ' 147 



32. ' Victorian Naturalist ' 149 



33. Vorderman and Finsch ou the Birds of Java . . .150 



34. Westell's ' Year with Nature ' 150 



35. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1899. 150 



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



Letters from Messrs. D. Le 8ouef, E. Shelford, and W. L. 

 Sclater ; The Birds of Antarctica ; Ridgway's Birds of North 

 and Middle America; Attempted Re-introduction of the Great 

 Bustard into England ; Mr. Wiglesworth's Expedition to the 

 Pacific ; Balceniceps in East Africa ; Ornithology at the Ex- 

 position Universelle ; The Usage of the Generic Term Qavia ; 

 New British Birds ; Prof. Newton's Royal Medal : The Birds 

 of Yorkshire 151 



XII. Obituary. — Dr. John Anderson, Dr. Gustav Hartlaub . 159 



Number II., April. 



XIII. On some Collections of Birds from the Protectorate 

 of British Central Africa, received in 1899 and 1900. By 

 Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S. With an Introduction by 



P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., E.R.S 161 



XIV. On Moult and Alleged Colour-change in Birds. By 

 WiTMER Stone 177 



XV. Description of a new Species of Bush-Shrike from the 

 Knysna District of Cape Colony. By W. L. Sclater, M.A., 

 F.Z.S., Director of the South-African Museum. (Plate VI.) . 183 



XVI. A Visit to a Nesting-Colony of the Straw-necked Ibis. 



By D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S. (Melbourne) 185 



