XIV CONTENTS. 



Paga 



XXVII. General Remarks on the Avifauna of Madagascar 

 and the Mascarene Islands. Ey Dr. G. Hahtlaub .... 334 



XXVIII. Description of u new Species of CalUste and of 

 a new Humming-bird of the Genus Heliangelus. By A. von 

 Pelzeln, Hon. Memb. B.O.IJ 337 



XXIX. Additional Notes on the Ornithology of the Re- 

 public of Transvaal. By Thomas Ayres. Communicated by 

 John Henry Gukney. (Plate VII.) 339 



XXX. Notes on the Avifauna of New Caledonia. By Edgab 

 L. Layard, C.M.G., F.Z.S., &c., H.B.M. Consul, and E. Leopold 



C. Layard, Vice-Consul at Noumea 355 



XXXI. Notes on some Birds collected during the Explora- 

 tion of the Fly River. By M. L. D'Albertis, C.M.Z.S. . . .363 



XXXII. Notices of recent Publications : — 



30. Baldwin's ' Large and Small Game of Bengal ' . . . 372 



31. ' Vagrancy Acts ' 373 



32. Orton's 'Andes and the Amazon' 373 



33. ' Log-letters from the Challenger ' 374 



34. ' The Cruise of the ChaUenger ' 374 



35. ' Stray Feathers ' 374 



36. Sharpe's edition of Layard's ' Birds of South Africa ' . 375 



37. Heuglin's ' Journey in North-eastern Africa ' . . . 375 



38. Elliot's Monograijh of the Hornbills 376 



39. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 377 



40. Gould's ' Birds of Asia ' 377 



41. Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany 378 



42. Beccari's Account of the Playing-places oi Amhhjornis 



inornata 379 



43. Salvadori's Recent Ornithological Papers .... 379 



44. Barboza du Bocage's Thirteenth List of African Birds 380 



45. Homeyer upon German Mammals and Birds . . . 380 



46. Allen's ' Progress of Ornithology in the United States ' 381 



47. Pelzeln on Birds from Ecuador 383 



48. Pelzeln on Additions to the Imperial Museum at 



Vienna 383 



49. Pelzeln's Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 



1875 384 



