CONTENTS OF NUMBER XII. {continued). 



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139. Stone on Birds from Sumatra I p,-> 7 



140. Strong on the Colour of Feathers j 



141. Strong on the Study of Variation 628 



142. Ussher on Irish Birds I px . 



143. Wiglesworth on St. Kildan Birds \ 0wJ 



144. Winge on the Fossil Birds of Denmark 630 



XLIV. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. 



Letters from Dr. Emil A. Goeldi, Prof. W. Blaxland Benham, 

 and Messrs. II. J. Pearson and J. P. Chaworth Musters. Report of 

 the British Museum (Natural History) for 1902 ; Return of the 

 ' Valhalla' ; The Meeting of American Ornithologists in California ; 

 The Penguins of Gauss-land ; The Red-cheeked Ibis in Europe ; 

 Death of Capt. H. F. Francis; Mr. W. Eagle Clarke; Twelfth 

 Supplement to the Check-list of North-American Birds .... 030 



Index of Scientific Names 641 



Index of Contents 661 



Titlepage, Preface, Lisb of Members, Contents, and List of Plates. 



Publications received since the issue of No. 11, Eighth 

 Series, and not noticed in the present Number. 



93. * Annals of Scottish Natural History.' (1903, July.) 



94. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Materiali per una Bibliografia Ornitologica 



Italiaua. (Atti R. 1st. Veneto Sci. lxii.) 



95. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Deux mots sur la Base feroce (Buteo ferox) tuee 



a Lyon en Oct. 1902. (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1903.) 



96. ' Atlantic Slope Naturalist.' (Vol. i. no. 3.) 



97. ' Avicultural Magazine.' (N. S. vol. i. no. 11.) 



98. Blasius. Der Riesenalk, Alva impennls L. (Naumann, Naturg. Viig. 



Mitteleuropas, Bd. xii.) 



99. Castle and Allen. The Heredity of Albinism. (Contr. Zool. Lab. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. Harvard College, No. 142, 1903.) 



100. 'The Emu.' (Vol. iii. pt. 1.) 



101. Evans. Turner on Birds. 8vo. Cambridge, 1903. 



102. Field Columbian Museum. Annual Report of the Director. (Report 



Series, vol. ii. no. 2.) 



103. Goeldl Maravilhas da Natureza na Ilha de M.irajo. (Bal. Mus. 



Paraense, iii.) 



104. Goeldi. Album de Aves Amazonicas. (Fasc. ii.) 



105. Grinxell and Daggett. An Ornithological Visit to Los Corona los 



Islands, Lower California. (Auk, xt) 



106. Hellmwr. Einige weitere Bemerkungen iiber Polioptila. (Verb., z.-b. 



Ges. Wien, 1903.) 



107. Hellmayr. Ueber neue und wenig bekannte siid-amerikanische Vogel. 



(Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1903.) 

 10S. Huber. Sobre os Materiaes do Ninho do Japii (Ostinops decumanus). 

 (Bol. Mus. Paraense, iii.) 



109. Loudon. Ergebnisse einer ornitbologischen Sammelreise nach Zentral- 



Asien (1901). (Ornith. Jahrb. 1901-1903.) 



110. Macoun. Catalogue of Canadian Birds. Part II. (Geol. Surv. Canada, 



1903.) 



111. Gates and Reid. Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British 



Museum. (Vol. iii. 1903.) 



112. Rothschild. Novitates Zoologica?. (Vol. x. no. 2, 1903.) 



113. Schiebel. Die Phylogenese der Lanius-Arten. (Ornith Monatsb. 1903.) 



114. Schiebel. In welchem Monat bekommt der sshwarzstiinige Wiirger 



{Lanius minor Gm.) sein Alterskleid ? (Ornith. Jahrb. 1903.) 



115. Sharpe. A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds. (Vol. iv., 



1903.) 



116. Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen. Omithologische Literatur Osterreich- 



Ungarns und des Okkupationsgebiete 1901. (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 

 1903.) 



