XXVI CONTENTS. 



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XXXV. Narrative of a Visit to Somaliland in 1897, with 

 Field-notes on the Birds obtained during the Expedition. By 



E. LoET Phillips, F.Z.S. (Plates YIII.-X.) 382 



XXXVI. Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 1898 425 



XXXVII. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 

 Nos. LII.-LIV 428 



XXXVIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



52. Andrews on a Skeleton of Megalapteryx 440 



53. Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 25 and 26, 



January and April, 1898 440 



54. Arrigoni degli Oddi's Notes on Italian Ornithology . 441 



55. ' The Auk,' January and April, 1898 442 



56. Baron on North-Peruvian Humming-birds .... 444 



57. Bianchi on the Genus Carpodacus 444 



58. Blanford's ' Birds of British India ' 444 



59. Chapman on Mexican Birds 445 



60. Deck's ' Savage Africa ' 446 



61. Finn on Anser erytJirojms in India 446 



62. Finn on some noteworthy Indian Birds 447 



63. Forbes on an extinct Starling 447 



64. Hartert on the Birds of Flores 448 



65. Hartert on various Humming-birds 448 



66. Harvie-Brown on the Migration of Birds .... 448 



67. Lee's Photograpbs of British Birds 449 



68. Lilford's ' Coloured Figures of British Birds ' ... 450 



69. Malischeff on Nerve-endings in the Stomach and 



(Esophagus 451 



70. Naturalist's Directory 451 



71. Nelson on new Birds from Tres Marias Islands . . 452 



72. Neumann on the Birds of Eastern Equatorial Africa . 452 



73. North on the Birds of Cumberland County, New South 



Wales 453 



74. Praeger on the Birds of Rockall Island 453 



75. Ilothsehild, Hartert, and Kleinschmidt on Comatihis 



eremita 454 



76. Salvadori on a new Francoliu 454 



