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 YIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Andrews on a New Fossil Bird ; Bryant on the Roadrunner ; 

 Cory on new South American Bii'ds ; Dabbene on the Coots 

 and Grebes of the Argentine ; Evans on British Birds ; Geikie 

 on the Birds of Shakespeare ; Grinnell on a new Ruffled 

 Grouse ; Gurney's Ornithological Report for Norfolk ; Gylden- 

 stolpe on the Birds of Siam ; Hartert and Lord Rothschild on 

 various subjects; Mathews on the Birds of Australia; Mearns 

 on new African Birds ; Murphy and Harper on new Diving- 

 Petrels ; Murphy on the Teal of South Georgia ; Noble on the 

 Birds of Guadeloupe; Poncy on the Bird-life of Geneva; 

 Shufeldt's recent papers; Swarth on the Arizona Screech 

 Owls ; Todd on the Genus Dysithammis ; Warren on Colorado 

 Birds ; White on the Exploration of Central Australia ; The 

 Auk; Avicultural Magazine; Journal of the Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 of Siam; and List of other Ornitliological Pubhcations re- 

 ceived 94 



IX. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from J. C. Phillips, C. J. Alexander, Gregory M. 

 Mathews, Nils Gyldenstolpe, Dr. van Someren, and C. F. M. 

 Swynnertou ; Second Oological Dinner ; The Zoologist . . .110 



Number 2, April. 



X. The Birds of Yemen, south-western Arabia, with an 

 account of liis journey thither by tlie collector, Mr. G. Wyman 

 Bury. By W. L. Sclater, M.A., M.E.O.U. (Plates IIL & IV., 

 and Text-figure 1.) 129 



XL Some Reflections on the Breeding-habits of the Cuckoo 

 (Cuculus canoriis). By Major B. F. Meiklejohn, D.S.O., 

 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, M.B.O.U 186 



XII. Notes on the Nidification of some Indian Falconidse. 



By E. C. Stuart Baker, M.B.O.U. (Plato V.) 224 



XIII. Note on the Acclimatisation of the Australian Black 

 Swan (Chenopsis atrata). By R. T. Gunther, M.A., F.Z.S. 

 (Text-figure 2.) 241 



