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INDEX OF CONTENTS, 



17G ; ' History of Fowling,' notic-etl, 



304. 

 Maequavie Islands, Penguins in the, 



182. 

 Madarasz, J. v , on birds from New 



Guinea, noticed, IGG ; on birJs from 



Ceylon, noticed, 107. 

 Maliscbeff, on nerve-endings in tbe 



stomach and ce.'^ophagus of birds, 



noticed, 451. 

 Malmgren, A. J , obituarial notice of, 



463. 

 Malta, remarks on the Ornis of, 433. 

 Marchant, J. R. V., and Watkins, W., 



' Wild Birds Protection Acts 1880- 



9(5,' noticed, 107. 

 Marianne Islands, on the birds of the , 



noticed, 618. 

 Marocco, see Morocco. 

 Mascarene Islands, on an extinct Star- 

 ling from tiie, uoticed, 447. 

 Maslionaland, exhibition of birds col- 

 lected by Mr. Sowerby in, 2'J7 ; on a 



collection of birds from Fort Chiqua- 



qua, 667. 

 Meinertzhagen, D., death of, 298. 

 Mesopterygdid, on tiie avian, 612. 

 Mexico, on new birds from Tres Marias 



Island, noticed, 452. 

 Mejer, A. B., and Helm, F., reports on 



the birds of Saxony, noticed, 168. 

 'Migration of Birds,' Whitlock's, no- 

 ticed, 172 ; the nocturnal, 314 ; 



Harvie-Brown on tiie, noticed, 448. 

 Mimicry, contributions to the theoi-y of, 



noticed, 615. 

 Moa, on the species of, of the North 



Island of New Zealand, noticed, 304. 

 Moffat, C. B., 'Life and Letters of 



A. Q. More,' noticed, 621. 

 Montgomery, H. H., on tiie habits of 



the Mutton-bird of Bass Strait, 



Australia (PufRnustenuirostris), 209. 

 More, A. G-., 'Life and Letters of,' 



noticed, 621. 

 Morocco, description of Otocorys atlas 



from, 432; on a collection of birds 



from, .'■.92. 

 Miiller, H. 0., obituarial notice, 628. 

 Mutton-bird, on the habits of the, 



209. 



' Naturalists' Directory,' Gill's, noticed, 



451. 

 Negros, on some birds from the Island 



of, 119. 

 Nelson, E. W., on new birds from Tres 



Marias Island, Mexico, noticed, 4.52. 

 Nests of some rare Philippine birds, 



231. 



Neumann, A. H., ' Elephant-hunting in 

 East Equatorial Africa,' birds noticed, 

 452. 



Newcastle Museum, exhibition of photo- 

 graphs of birds iu the Hancock Col- 

 lection in the, 296. 



New Guinea, on birds from, noticed, 

 1()6 ; descriptions of new species of 

 birds from, 285, 438; on Meliphagidie 

 and otiier birds from, noticed, 302 ; 

 exliibition and description of birds 

 from Mount Albert Edward, 613. 



New Soutli Wales, list of the Insecti- 

 vorous Birds of, noticed, 169. 



Newton, A., on the Orcadian Home of 

 (he Garefowl, 587. 



New Zealand, notes on the Ornithology 

 of, noticed, 160; on the Moas of the 

 North Island of, noticed, 304. 



Ninni, Count, on some specimens of 

 Anatidic in the collection of the late, 

 67. 



Noble, H., exhibition of an egg of tiie 

 Great Auk, 432. 



Nortli, A. J., papers on Australian 

 birds, noticed, 168 ; list of the Insect- 

 ivorous Birds of New South Wales, 

 noticed, 169 ; on tiie nests and eggs 

 of three Australian birds, noticed, 

 306 ; the birds of the county of 

 Cumberland, N.S.W., uoticed, 453. 



Norway, a hybrid Tlirush from, 317. 



Novaya Zemlya, account of Colonel 

 Feilden and Mr. H. J. Pearson's expe- 

 dition to, 142; on birds observed at, 

 185. 



Nyasaland, on Mr. Whyte's final col- 

 lections from, 376 ; list of the birds 

 collected by Mr. Alfred Sharpe 

 in, .551 ; on the birds collected by 

 Dr. Percy Rendall on the L^pper Shire 

 River and on the shores of Lake 

 Nyasa, noticed, 618. 



Oates, E. W., on a new species of 



Pheisant from Burma. 124 ; 'Manual 



of the Game-birds of India,' noticed, 



306. 

 Obi major (Island of), descriptions of 



new Pigeons collected by Mr. Doherty 



in, 296. 

 Oliver, P., translation of the voyages 



of Sieur D. B. to Madagascar and 



Bourbon, noticed, 169. 

 Orkney Islands, on the Jiome of the 



Garefowl in the, 587. 

 Ornithological VV^orks in Progress, 462. 



Papua, contributions to (lie Ornithology 

 of the Papuan Islands, noticed, 170. 



