CONTENTS. XXXUl 



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 XXVITI. Birds of the yiiez Canal Zoue and Sinai Pcuiiisula. 

 By Captain A. ^^\ BoYi), M.C 539 



XXIX. Further Xotes on the Birds of the Province of 

 Fohkieu in South-East China. By J. D. D. Li Touche, 

 M.B.O.U o57 



XXX. The Birds of Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Penin- 

 sula, Shark Bay, Western Australia, 1916-1917. By Thomas 

 Cartek, M.B.O.U.; with Nomenclature and Eeinarka hy 

 Gregory M. Mathews, M.H.O.U. (Plates IX.-XI.) . . .504 



XXXI. Some evidence corroborating the supposed Breeding 

 of the Green Sandpiper in the British Isles. By H. W. 

 EoBixsoix, M.B.O.U 611 



XXXII. Obituary. Emil August Goeldi ; Godfrey Vassal 

 Webster ; Edward Pearson Bamsay ; Eric Brooke Dunlop ; 



A. J. XORTH 613 



XXXIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications: — 



Allen's Autobiogi'aphy and Bibliography ; Bergtold on In- 

 cubation ; Brooks on Falkland Island Birds ; Buturlin on the 

 Nuthatches; Chapman on Brent Geese; Dabbene on Argen- 

 tine Birds ; Dixon on the Baird Sandpiper ; Douglas on 

 Irish Woodcock; Fuertes on tropical bird-song; Howell on 

 the Birds of Californian Islands ; Kuroda's recent papers ; 

 Mathews on AustraUan Birds ; Matthew and Granger on 

 Diatryma ; Mullens and Swann's Bibliography of British 

 Ornithology ; Peters on a new Porto Rican Bird ; Poliakov 

 on Siberian Birds; Swarth on Williamson's Sapsucker ; 

 Swenk on the Eskimo Curlew ; "Wetmore on a sexual 

 character of the Ruddy Duck ; "Wetmore on the Birds of 

 Culebra Island; AVetmore on the New Zealand Cuckoo; and 

 List of other Ornithological Pubhcations received .... 618 



XXXIV. Letters, Extracts, and Notes :— 



Letters from The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, AV. H. AVorkman, 

 The Alarquess of Tavistock, E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, Col. G. 

 van H. Clarke 633 



