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XIV. A List of the Birds of Turkey, By H. J. Elwes, 

 F.Z.S., late Capt. Scots Fusilier Guards, and T. E. Buckley, 

 B.A., r.Z.S 188 



XV. On rare or little-known Lhnkolce. By James Edmund 

 Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (Plates V., VI.) ....... 201 



XVI. On the Onolidce of the Ethiopian Eegion. By R. B. 

 Sharpe, F.L.S. (Plates VII., VIII.) 213 



XVII. On the Ornithology of Hainan. Br Robert Swinhoe, 

 F.Z.S. &c. (Plate IX.) 230 



'-—XVIII. On Existing Remains of the Gare-fowl (AIca im- 

 pennis). By Alfred Newton 256 



XIX. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English: — Sclater and Salvin's 'Exotic Ornithology/ 

 parts ix.-xiii. ; Rodd on the Birds of Cornwall ; Ornithological 

 Papers in the 'Proceedings' of the Glasgow Natiu'al-History 

 Society ; Eyton's ' Supplement to Osteologia Avium ; ' A. C. 

 Smith's ' Spring Tour in Portugal ' 2G2 



2. French : — Marey on the Flight of Birds 260 



3. Dutch: — Keulemans's ' Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin ; ' 

 Crommclin's papers in the ' Archives Neerlandaises ' . . , . 208 



4. German : — Van der Hoeven's ' Annotationes de Dromade 

 ardeola ; ' Cramer on the Development of the Egg in Birds ; 

 Magnus's Physiologieo-Anatomical Researches into the Breast- 

 bone of Birds ; Von Pelzela's ' Ornithologic Brasiliens,' Abth. iii. 271 



5. Rtissian : — Von Middendorff on Bird-life in Siberia . . 274 



6. American : — Elliot's ' Birds of North America,' parts x.-xv. ; 

 Sumichrast on Birds of Vera Cruz ; Lawrence on new American 

 Birds, Birds from Yucatan, from Puna Island, and new South- 

 American Birds ; Ridgway on obscurely known species of Ame- 

 rican Birds 277 



XX. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. Layard, Hume, Brooks, and R. Gray, 

 Col. Tytler, Lord Walden, Mr. C. Home, Capt. Feilden, Herr 

 von Pelzeln, Dr. Salvadori, and Messrs. Sclater, Harvie-Brown, 

 Hawkins, H. Saunders, Elliot, and Tristram ; Mr. Skeat on the 

 meaning of the name of the Grey Lag Goose ; Death of Lieut. 

 Beavan ; Ornithological xVctivity . 282 



