CONTENTS. 



Page 

 I. Notes on Birds observed at Erzerura. Hy P. J. C. McGeegor, 



M.B.O.U., lately H.M. Consul for Palestine 1 



II. Notes on Birds observed in the North Sea and North Atlantic 

 Ocean during the Autumn and Winter of 1914. By 

 Lieutenant J. N. Kennedy, B.G.A., M.B.O.U 30 



III. A little-known Bird Colony in the Gulf of Mexico. By 



Lieutenant J, N. Kennedy, B.G.A., M.B.O.U 41 



IV, With the British Association in Australia, By A. H. Evans, 



M.A., M.B.O.U 43 



V, On the Breeding of the South African Biack Duck (Anas 



sxKirsa). By F. E. Blaauw, M.B.O.U. (Plate I.) . . . 09 



VI. Remarks on some recent Collections of Birds made bv Mr. G. 

 L. Bates in Cameroon. By AV. 11. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 M.B.O.U. (Plate IL) 72 



VII. Obituary : John Cyril Crowley, Samuel Gilbert Scott, Palph 

 William Franklaud Payne -Gallwey, Joachim Charles 

 Hartert ' 91 



VIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Andrews on a New Fossil Bird ; I'ryaiit rn the TJoadrunn'^r ; 

 Cory on new South American Birds; Dabbene on the Conts 

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

 on the Birds of Shakespeare ; Grinnell on a new Ruffled 

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

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

 various subjects; Mathews on the P)ird>: of Australia ; Mearns 

 on new African Birds ; Mnrpliy and Harper on n^w Diviug- 

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

 Birds of Guadeloupe ; Poncy on the ]jird-life of Geneva ; 

 Shufeldt's recent papers; Swarth on the Arizona Screecii Owls; 

 Todd on the Genus Di/sithannius ; Wairen on Colorado .Birds: 

 White on the Exploration of Central Australia; The Auk; 

 Avicultural Magazine ; .Journal of the; Nat. Hist. SoC. of Siani : 

 and List of other Ornithological Publications received ... 94 



IX. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from .7. C. Phillips, C. .1. Alexander, Gregory 31. 

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

 Swynnerton ; Second Oological Dinner ; The Zoologist . . . ]l(j 



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