CONTENTS OE NUMBER III.— EOURTH SERIES. 



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 XXII. A Contributioa to the Ornithology of Asia Minor. By C. 



G. Danford 261 



XXIII. Recent Observations on the Parrots of the Genus Eclectus. 



By W. A. Forbes, F.Z.S. 274 



XXIV. Notes on a Collection of Birds made by Mr. E. C. Buxton in 



the district of Lampong, S.E. Sumatra. By Arthur, 

 Marquess of Tweeddale, M.B.O.U. (Plates V. & VI.) . 283 

 XXV. Report on the Additions to the Collection of Birds in the 



British Museum in 1875 323 



XXVI. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Mu- 

 seum,' by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. Gurney 325 

 XXVII. General Remarks on the Avifauna of Madagascar and the 



Mascarene Islands. By Dr. G. Hartlatjb 334 



XXVIII. Description of a new Species of OalUste and of a new 

 Humming-bird of the Genus Heliangclus. By A. von 



Pelzelit, Hon. Memb. B.O.U 337 



XXIX. Additional Notes on the Ornithology of the Republic of 

 Transvaal. By Thomas Atres. Communicated by 



John Henry Gurney. (Plate VII.) 339 



XXX. Notes on the Avifauna of New Caledonia. By Edgar 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 Exploration 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 ' S7'2 



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 Monogriiph of the Hornbills 376 



39. Gould's ' Bhds 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 Arnhhjornis inoniata. 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 



50. Baird's ' Ornithology of Utah ' 384 



51. Major God win- Austen's List of Birds from the Hills of the N.E. 



Frontier of India 385 



XXXIII. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from the Marquess of Tweeddale (two), Edward R. Alston, 

 T. M. Brewer, J. H. Gurney, jun., W. Edwin Brooks, J. H. Gurney, 

 H. Schalow, and T. Salvador! ; Roraima and its Mysteries ; Trans- 

 lation of Miiller's memoir on the Voice-organs of the Passeres . . 38") 



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