CONTENTS. XXlll 



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30. Sharpe and Ogilvie Grant : Catalogue of the I3irds in 



the British Museum 149 



31. Vorderman on Birds from the Mokiocas 150 



32. Vorderman ou Lophura nobilis 150 



33. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1897. 152 



XI. Letters, Extracts, jN'otices, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. K. Shelford, Mr. W. Ruskin Butterfield, 

 Mr. C. B. liickett, Eev. H. A. Macpherson, Count E. Arrigoni 

 degli Oddi, Mr. llichard M. Barringtou, and Mr. 0. V. Aplin 

 (two). The Bird-Collections of the British Museum ; The 

 Diving-habits of the Young Hoatzin ; Sales of Gould's Bird- 

 books ; Capture of a fourth Living Specimen of Notornis ; 

 Proposed Memorial to Macgillivray ; The Generic x^ame of the 

 Snow-Bunting; The }i^ggoi Fiti/riasis r/i/mnocejihala . . . . 152 



XII. Obituary. — William Borrcr and John Van Voorst . . 1G8 



XUMBER XVIII., April. 



XIII. Notes on the Birds of Xorth-west Fohkicn. By J. D. 



D. La TotJCHE 169 



XIV. Field-notes on Birds collected in the Philippine Islands 



in 1893-6.— Part II. By John Whitehead 210 



XV. Ushaut as an Ornithological Station. — Xotes on the 

 Birds observed at Ushant, at Lc Conquet on the west coast of 

 Brittany, and at Alderney. By William Eagle Clarke, 

 F.L.S 246 



XVI. On new Species of Birds obtained in Kan-su by 



M. Berezovsky. By H. E. Dresser and E. Delmar Morgan . 270 



XVII. On the Birds of New Hanover. By Ernst Hartert. 

 (Plate 111.) .277 



