CONTENTS OP NUMBEE I.— EOUETH SEEIES. 



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 I. Contributions to the Ornithology of Borneo. By R. Bowdlee 



Shaepe 1 



If. Description of a new Moorhen from the Hawaiian Islands. 



By T. H. SxEEETS, M.D., U.S. Navy 25 



III. Notes on some Birds observed in the Chupiit Valley, Patagonia, 



and in the neighbouring District. By H. Duenfoed . . 27 



IV. Note on the South-American Song-Sparrows. By P. L. 



ScLATEE. (Plate I.) 46 



V. Ornithological Letters from the Bremen Expedition to Western 

 Siberia. By Dr. Otto Finsch, Ph.D., Hon. Memb. B.O.U., 

 Chief of the Expedition 48 



VI. On the Phylloscojpi or Willow-Warblers. By Heney Seebohm, 



F.Z.S. 06 



VII. A Note on the Genus Orihotomus. By R. Bowdlee Shaepe. 



(Plate II.) 108 



VIII. Notices of recent Publications : — 



1. Pere David's ' Third Journey in China ' 117 



2. The Marquis de Compiegne's 'Equatorial Africa ' 118 



3. Riesenthal's 'German Birds of Prey ' 119 



4. Allen's 'Birds of Lake Titicaca' 119 



5. ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales ' . 120 



6. Rowley's 'Ornithological Miscellany' 121 



7. Blanford's ' Zoology of Eastern Persia " 121 



8. Finsch 's ' Ornithology of the Pacific Islands ' 123 



9. Shelley's ' Monograph of the Sun-birds ' 124 



10. Boucard's ' Catalogus Avium' 125 



11. Brijggemann's ' Birds of Celebes ' , 126 



12. Gurney's ' Rambles of a Natm-alist ' 127 



IX, Letters, Announcements, «fec. : — 



Letters from Mr. R. Swinhoe and Mr. Seebohm ; Count E. Turati's 

 Collection ; new series of the * Zoologist ;' new work on the 

 fauna of Belgium ; Touquin and the way to get there ; Death of 

 Von Heuglui ; irruption of Snowy Owls from the north . . . 128 



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