CONTENTS OF NUMBER, XII. {continued). 



Page 

 XXXVIII. Letters, Extracts, and Xotes : — 



Letters from Messrs. C. H. T.Whitehead, Michael J. Nicoll, 

 and Robert Ridgway. The B. O. U. Expedition for the 

 Exploration of Central New Guinea; News of Mr. Boyd 

 Alexander ; The proposed Introduction of the " American 

 Robin " into England ; The Auckland Museum, New Zealand ; 

 Bird-marking Experiments in England ; The Lake N'gami 

 Expedition ; A new Fossil Bird from the Lower Pliocene . 713 



Index of Scientific N'ames 721 



Index of Contents 739 



Titlepage, Preface, List of Members, Contents, List of Plates, and 

 List of Text-figures. 



Publications received since the issue of No. 11, Ninth 

 Series, and not noticed in the present Number. 



89. BiEDEKMANN, R. CovvuH covax iui Fiirsteutum Liibeck. Ueber Fusz- 



haltung der Vogel im Fluge. (Orn. Jahrb. vii. 1896, Heft 2.) 



90. ' Bird Lore.' (Vol. xi. Nos. 4, 5. Harrisburg, 1909.) 



91. ' British Birds.' (Vol. iii. Nos. 3, 4, 5. 1909.) 



92 Dubois, A. Ccmiment on doit envisager le type du Buceros sharpii de 

 Elliot. (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxiv. 1909.) 



93. Herman, 0. Historical Sketch of the International Convention for the 



Protection of Birds, 1902. (Budapest, 1907.) 



94. LaTouche, .7. D. D. The Collection of Birds in the Shanghai Museum, 



(.Journ. N. China Br. R. Asiatic Soc. xl. 1909.) 



95. Laurie, D. F. Official Report of the Egg-layiug Competition, 1908-9, 



held at Roseworthy, S. Australia. (Adelaide, 1909.) 



96. Lkonhardt, E. E., and Schwarze, R. Das Sammeln, Erhalten und 



Aufstellen der Tiere. (Neudamm, 1909.) 



97. Marriner, G. R. The Kea: a New-Zealand Problem. (London, 



1909.) 



98. New York Zool. Soc. Bulletin. (No. 35 September 1909. Hudson-Fulton 



Celebration Number.) 



99. 'The Philippine Journal of Science.' Vol. iv. Nos. 2 & 3. 1909. 



Manila.) 



100. Report on the Progress and Condition of U.S. National Museum for the 



Year ending June 30th, 1908. 



101. Shufeldt, R. W. On the Comparative Osteology of the Passerine Bird 



Arachnothera magna. (P. Z. S., August 1909.) 



102. Smith, W. W. On the Nesting-Habits of Rhipidiira flabellifera. (Trans 



N. Zeal. Inst. xli. 1908.) 



103. Thienemann, Dr. J. Jahresbericht (1908) der Vogelwarte Rossitten der 



Deutscheu Orn. Gesells. (Journ. f. Orn., July 1909.) 



104. TscHUSi zu Schmidhoffen, V. R. v. Der Zug des Steppenhuhnes, 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.), nach dem Westen 1908. (Verb, und 

 Mitt. Sieb. Vereins f. Naturw. Iviii. Bd. 1908.) 



105. . Corvus nucifraga : 1. Leben und Treiben des Tannenhehers. 



(Berajah, Zoographia iniinita. Halle, 1909.) 



106. Westell, W. P. The Young Naturalist. (I^ondon, 1909.) 



