CONTENTS OF NUMBER IX.— NINTH SERIES. 



Pagtt 

 I. Field-IVotes on the Birds of Southern Kamerun, West Africa. 

 By G. L. Batbs, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. (Plates I. & II. and 



Text-figures 1-3.) 1 



II. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Sudan. — No. III. On 

 Birds collected by Captain E. P. Blencowe in the Bahr-e.l- 

 Ghazal Province. By A. L. Bcttler, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 

 Superintendent of Game Preservation, Sudan Government . 74 

 HI. On the Birds of Kohat and Kurram, Northern India, By 

 Lieut. C. H. T. Whitkhead, Indian Army, With an 

 Introduction by Major H. A, F. Magraih, Indian Army. 



(Plate III. and Text-figures 4 «& .5.) 90 



IV. Note on the Corvus neqiectus of Schlegel. By T. Salvadoki, 



H.M.B.O.U. . . . ■ I 134 



V. On the Decrease in Weight of Birds' Eggs during Incubation. 



By Elizabeth SEmorR Norton, F.Z.S. (Text-figure 6.) . 137 

 YI. On the Birds of Bulawayo, Southern lihodesia. By E. C. 



Chubb, Assistant Curator, llhodesia Museum, Bulawayo . ,140 

 VII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications: — 



1. Allen on Ba>olophifs biculor-atricn'stafns 172 



2. IJerlepsch on the Birds of Cayenne I i -o 



8. Cheeseman on the Lesser Frigate-bird \ ' '"* 



4. Drumnumd on the Little-Barrier Bird-Sanctuary . . . .j ,-, 



'). Mower's List of Zoological Gardens \ ' 



♦i. Fulton on the Disappearance of New Zealand Birds . . .1 t-- 



7. (iodman's ' Monograph of the Petrels ' ( '' 



8. I lartert's ' Miscellanea Ornithologica' : Part V. . , . .| 



9. Ililgert'.s Catalogue of the Erlanger Collection /• 17<> 



](). ^larriner's Notes on the Kea (Xesfor) j 



11. Menegaux's Ornithological Papers 177 



12. Neumann's Notes on African Birds 178 



1.']. North on new Birds from the South Pacific 1 



14. North on the Nesting of the Australian Black-and-Whitej- 17-> 



Fautail \ 



lo. Report on the Zoological Gardens, Giza, for 1907 . . . .1 



It). Bothschild on Casnarius histriatus > 180 



17. Rothschild and Ilartert on the Birds of Vella Lavella , , \ 



18. Rothschild and Hartert on Birds from San Christoval . .| n^^, 



19. Schalow on the Birds of the Tianshan { 



20. Stuart liaker on Indian Ducks 182 



21. Stuart Baker on the Birds of the Khasia Hills 18:i 



22. Stuart Baker on the Indian Cuckoos 184 



2:^>. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses in 1907 , 185 



2-1. Wollaston's ' Ruwenzori ' 180 



YlII, Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from Ileer F. E. Blaauw. Commander W. IT. TIaughton, 

 and Mr. D. Carruthers. Birds of Bear Island and Spitzbergen ; 

 Increased Fertility of the Domestic Fowl ; Mr. Boyd Alexander s 

 new African Expedition ; Pioposed Zoological Exploration of 

 Dutch New Guinea 188 



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