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78. Madarasz on a new Ground-Thrush 461 



79. Nehrkorn's Catalogue of his Egg-collection .... 4(32 



80. North on the Nesting of Australian Birds .... 463 



81. North and Keartland on the Birds collected by the 



Calvert Expedition 4G3 



82. Eeichenow on the Birds of the Irangi Expedition . 464 



83. Schalow on Birds from Chile and Patagonia . . .464 



84. Sharpe's Wonders of the Bird-world 465 



85. Shufeldt on the Classification of Birds 466 



86. Stone on the Moulting of Birds 466 



XXXIX. Obituary.— Prof. 0. C. Marsh, W. E. Brooks, 

 Joseph Wolf, and H. B. Hewetson 467 



XL. Letters, Exti'acts, Notices, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. Witmer Stone, Herr Otto Herman, Mr. 

 Frank Einn, Mr. John Cordeaux, Mr. 0. V. Apliu, Mr. William 

 Jesse, and Mr. Joseph I. S. Whitaker. Note on Coccyzus 

 euUri ; Quintocubitalism ; Avium Generum Index Alpha- 

 beticus ; Birds of Somaliland ; Birds of the Gambia Colony ; 

 New Handbook of South-African Birds ; Birds of the Western 

 Altai ; The Mode of Incubation of the Ostrich ; Birds living in 

 the Zoological Society's Gardens : Dates of Jardine and Selby's 

 * Illustrations of Ornithology ' ; Scientific Expedition to Alaska. 471 



Ntjmrek XX., October. 



XLl. Field-notes on Birds collected in the Philippine 

 Islands in 1893-6.— Part IV. By [the late] John AVniTEnEAi). 485 



XLII. On the Breeding of the Purple Gallinule in Cap- 

 tivity. By Joseph I, S. Whitaker 502 



XLIII. A List of Birds collected on the Island of New 

 Providence, Bahamas. Bv J. Lewis Bonhoxk 50() 



