INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



1899. 



Accipitres, catalogue of the, in the 

 Australian Museum, noticed, 146. 



Ackworth, on the birds of, noticed, 130. 



Africa, on collections of birds from 

 Inhanibune, Portuguese East, 111, 

 283 ; on the avifauna of East and 

 Central, noticed, 140,650; on Foa's 

 birds from Central, noticed, 145 ; 

 on birds from the vicinity of Zomba 

 in British Central, 281 ; descriptions 

 of two new birds from Nandi in 

 Equatorial, 303 ; on a collection of 

 birds from the Tanganyika Plateau 

 in British Central, 304 ; on the 

 birds collected by Dr. Ansorge in, 

 noticed, 457 ; on the birds of the 

 Irangi Expedition in German East, 

 noticed, 4()4 ; proposed new Hand- 

 book of the Birds of South, 470 ; 

 list of birds obtained in British East, 

 687 ; on new or little-knowu birds of, 

 noticed, 651. 



Agassiz, A., report on the Harvard 

 College Museum, noticed, 448. 



Ages of birds, on the, 19. 



Alaska, on a scientific expedition to, 

 484. 



Albert, R, on the birds of Chile, 

 noticed, 316. 



Alcock, A. W., on the Natural History 

 of the Pamir Boundary Commission, 

 noticed, 129. 



Alderney, on the birds observed at, 

 246. 



Alexander, B., account of his expedition 

 to the Zambesi river and description 

 of new species of birds, 445 ; an 

 Ornithological Expedition to the 

 Zambesi river, 549 ; exhibition of 

 specimens and description of Cinnyris 

 shelleyi, 642. 



Alor Island, on new birds from, noticed, 

 649. 



Altai, on the bii'ds of the Western, 443, 

 480, 657. 



American Ornithologists' Union, on the 

 Meeting in Philadelphia of the, 471. 



Anatidffi, on abnormally-coloured, from 

 Venetia, noticed, 449. 



Andersen, K., on the birds of the 

 Faeroes, noticed, 648. 



Andrews, C. W., on some remains of 

 birds from the Lake-dwellings of 

 Glastonbury, Somersetshire, 351. 



' Annals of Scottish Natural History,' 

 noticed. 129, 448. 



Ansorge, W. J., on the birds collected 

 in Africa by, noticed, 457. 



Aplin, O. v., on the ciccurrence of 

 Motacilla alba and Falco cesalon in 

 the neighbourhood of Tromso, 169 ; 

 on the occurrence of Sylvia nisoria 

 in Oxfordshire, 160 ; letter on the 

 " murmuration " of Starlings, 474. 



Aquintocubitalism, note on, 477. 



Argentine Republic, exhibition of a skin 

 of Callistepretiosa from the, 305. 



Arrigoni degli Oddi, E., letter on the 

 geographical distribution of iSkuas in 

 Italy, 156; on two hybrid ducks in 

 Count Ninni's collection, noticed, 

 449. 



Arundel, W. B., ' Ackworth Birds,' 

 noticed, 130. 



Asia, on birds of, noticed, 458. 



Audubon, Maria R., 'Audubon and his 

 Journ;ils,' noticed, 130. 



' Auk,' ' The,' noticed, 131, 449. 



Australia, on tlie habits of the mound- 

 building birds of, 9 ; on the Bower- 

 birds of, noticed, 318 ; description of 

 souie birds' eggs from Northern, 359 ; 



