CONTENTS OE NUMBER IV.— EOUHTH SERIES. 



Page 

 XXXIV. List of Birds observed in Smith Sound and the Polar 

 Basin during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76. By 



H. W. Feilden 401 



XXXY. On the Nesting of the SpoonbiU in HoUand. By P. L. 



ScLATER and W. A. Forbes 412 



XXXVI. Remarks on Buceros bicornis, Linn. By D. G. Elliot, 



F.E.S.E. &c 416 



XXXVII. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British 

 Museum,' by K. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 



Gurnet 418 



XXXVIII. Description of two new Ant-birds of the Genus GraUaria, 

 with a List of all the known Species of the Genus. By 

 P. L. ScLATER, M.A., F.R.S. (Plates VIII., IX.) . . 437 

 XXXIX. Note on Pellorneum tichelK, Blyth. By Arthur, Marquis 



of TwEEDDALE, M.B.O.U. (Plates X., XI.) . . . .451 

 XL. Notes on some Burmese Birds. By Lieutenant Wardlaw 

 Ramsat, 67th llcgiment, M.B.O.U. (Plates Xll., 



XIII.) 452 



XLL On a new Bird from Formosa. By R. Swinhoe, F.R.S. 



(Plate XIV.) 473 



XLII. A few words on the Parrots of the Genus Eclectus, Wagler. 



By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S 474 



XLIII. Notices of recent Publications : — 



52. Salvadori on the Papuan Parrots 476 



53. Salvadori on Papuan and Malaccan Nectarinians 477 



§4. Salvadori on D'Albertis's Collections of 1872 _ _. 477 



55. Sbarpe's * Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum,' vol. iii. 477 



56. Sharpe 's Birds of Kerguelen Island 479 



57. Lawrence on a new Pitangus 481 



58. Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany ' 481 



59. E. P. Ramsay's Papers in the ' Proceedings of the Linnean So- 



ciety of New South Wales ' 482 



60. Wharton's ' List of British Birds ' 483 



61. Marshall's 'Bird's-nesting in India' 484 



62. M'Cauley's ' Birds of the Red Rivor of Texas ' 484 



63. Lieut. Wheeler's Reports upon Surveys west of tlie DOth 



Meridian ' 485 



64. Finsch's Collections from Siberia 486 



65. Oustalet on new species of Ibis 486 



XLIV. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from the Marquis of Tweeddale (two), Mr. D. G. Elliot, 

 Dr. A. B. Meyer, Mr. J. H. Gurney, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., and 

 Col. L. Howard Irby ; notes on Bonaparte's Lophorhina respuhlica 

 and Dr. Briiggemann's new species of Polyplectron 487 



Index 495 



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