CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVII. [continued). 



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25. Pycraft on the Gular Pouch of the Bustard i 1 4fl 



26. Ramsay and Noi-th on the Birds of the Australian Museum . | 



27. Rothschild's Synopsis of the Paradiseidce 147 



28. Seebohm's ' Monograph of the Thrushes ' I -, ,„ 



29. Sharpe's ' Monograph of the Paradiseidce ' j 



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



British Museum 149 



31. Vorderman on Birds from the Moluccas I ,gQ 



32. Vorderman on Lophiira nobilis j 



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



XI. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. 



Letters from Mr. R. Shelford, Mr. W. Rusldn Butterfield, 

 Mr. 0. B. Rickett, Rev. H. A. Macpherson, Count E. Arrigoni 

 degli Oddi, Mr. Richard M. Barrington, and Mr. O. 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 Name of the Snow-Bunting : The Egg 

 of Pityriasis gymnocephala 152 



XII. Obituary. 



Mr. William Borrer and Mr. John Van Voorst 168 



Publications received since the issue of No. 16, Seventh 

 Series, and not noticed in the present Number. 



1. Albert. Contribuciones al Estudio de Aves Chilenas. Entrega 1-3. 

 (Anales Univ. d. Chile, tomo c.) 



2. ' Aquila.' (Jahrgang v. Nr. 4, 1898.) 



3. BoLAU. Die Typen der Vogelsammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums 

 zu Hamburg. (Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, xv.) 



4. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum. (Vol. i. Nos. 3 and 4, 1898.) 



5. Campbell. Nests, Eggs, and Play-grounds of the Australian Ptilono- 

 rhynchin*, or Bower-Birds. (Proc. R. Physical Soc. Edinb. xiv. p. 13.) 



6. FiNSCH. On the Specific Distinction of the Ground-Cuckoos of Borneo 

 and Sumatra. (Notes Leyden Mus. xx. p. 97.)_ 



7. FiNscH. On seven new Species of Birds in the Leyden Museum from the 

 Islands of Wetter, Kisser, Letti, and New-Guinea. (Notes Leyden Mus. xx. 

 p. 129.) 



8. FiNSCH. Uber Seo2)s vutgicus (S. MiiU.) und die verwandten Arten. 

 (Notes Leyden Mus. xx, p. 163.) 



9. Lee. Among British Birds. Part xii. (4to. Edinburgh, 1898.) 



10. Macpherson. William Turner, the Father of British Zoology. ('The 

 Zoologist,' 1898, p. 337.) 



11. Martobelli. Le Forme e le Simmetrie delle Macchie nel Piumaggio. 

 (Mem. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. vi. fasc. 2, 1898.) 



12. Meerwarth. Beobachtungeu iiber Verfiirbung (ohne Mauser) der 

 Schwanzfedern brasilianischer Kaubvogel, uebst einem Beitrag zur Phylogenese 

 der Raubvogelzeichnung. (Zool. Jahrb. xi. p. 65.') 



13. Naumann. Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mittel-Europa's. (ii. & vi. 

 1896-98.) 



14. Noble. A List of European Birds. (8vo. London, 1898.) 



15. Oberholser. a Revision of the Wrens of the Genus Thryomanes Scl. 

 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 421.) 



16. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. (Bd. ix. Heft 5.) 



17. Pycraft. A Contribution towards our Knowledge of the Morphology 

 of the Owls. (Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2nd ser. Zool. vii. part 6.) 



18. Shufeldt. On the Alteration of Sex in a Brood of young Sparrow- 

 Hawks. (Amer. Nat. xxxii. p. 567.) 



19. Stejnegeb. The Birds of the Kuril Islands. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxi. 

 p. 269.) 



20. ' Timehri.' (New Series, xii. part 1.) 



21. TscHusi zu Schmibhoffen, Bemerkungen iiber die europjiischen 

 Graumeisen (Parus palvstris auct.), nebst Bestimmungsschliissel derselben. 

 (Ornith. Jahrb. ix. 1898, Heft 5.) 



22. Winge. Conspectus Faunae Groenlandicae. Gronlands Fugle. (Sastryk 

 af " Meddelelser om Gronland," xxi., 1898.) 



