CONTENTS. 



XXV. 



On a new South American Jay of the Genus Cyanolyca. 

 By W. L. ScLATEB, M.B.O.U. (Plate VIII.) . . . . 



Page 



465 



XXVI. Notes on the Ornithology of Malta. By G. Desi'ott, 



M.B.O.U. (Concluded from p. 349.) 466 



XXVII. Birds in the Ancre Valley during the Winter of l91fS- 

 1917. By Lieutenant J. X. Kennedy, M.C., K.G.A., 

 F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U. (Text-figure 4.) 526 



XXVIII. Birds of the Suez Canal Zone' and Sinai Peninsula. By 



Captain A, W. Botd, M.C ". 539 



XXIX. Further Notes on the Birds of the Province of Fohkien 



in South-east China. By J. D. D. La Touche, M.B.O.U. 557 



XXX. The Birds of Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula, 

 Shark Bay, Western Australia, 1916-17. By Thomas 

 CartePv, M.B.O.U. ; with Nomenclature and Kemarks 

 by GBKGORi- M. Mathews, M.B.O.U. (Plates IX.-XI.J 564 



XXXI. Some evidence corroborating the supposed Breeding of 

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

 BoBiNsoN, M.B.O.U 611 



XXXII. Obituary : Emil August Goeldi ; Godfrey Vassal Webster ; 

 Edward Pearson llamsay ; Eric Brooke Dunlop ; A. J. 

 North .613 



XXXIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Allen's Autobiography and Bibliography ; Bergtold on 

 Incubation ; Brooks on Falkland Island Birds ; Buturlin 

 on the Nuthatches ; Chapman on Brent Geese ; Dabbene on 

 Ai'gentine Birds ; Dixon on the Baird Sandpiper ; Douglas 

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

 on the Birds of Californian Islands ; Knroda's recent papers ; 

 Mathews on Australian Birds ; Matthew and Granger on 

 Diatryma ; Mullens and Swann's Bibliography of British 

 Ornithology ; Ppters en a new Porto Ricau Bird ; Poliakov 

 on Siberian Birds ; Swarth on AViliiamson's Sapsucker ; 

 Swenk on the Eskimo Curlew ; Wetmore on a sexual cha- 

 racter of the Ruddy Duck : Wetmore on the Birds of Culebra 

 Island ; Wetmore on the New Zealand Cuckoo ; and List 

 of other Ornithological Publications received Hi 8 



XXXIV. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, W. II. Workman, 

 The Marquess of Tavistock, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, and 

 Col. G. van II. Clarke G'iS 



Index of Scientific Names 645 



Index of Contents 



663 



Titlepage, Dates of Issue of 'Ibis' for 1917, List of Members, 

 Content, List of Plates, and List of Text-figures. 



"Communications intended for publication in ' The Ibis ' should be addressed 

 to the Editor. 



Members are requested to inform the Secretary, c/o The Zoological Society 

 of London, Regent's Park, N.W. 8, of any change of Address, so that tne 

 numbers of ' The Ibis ' may reach them without delay. 



