CONTENTS OF NUMBER XXL— NEW SERIES. 



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 I. Notes on the Birds of the Peninsula of Sinai. By Claude W. Wyatt, of 



the late Sinai Surveying Expedition 1 



II. On the Sun-birds of the Indian and Australian Regions. By Arthije 



Viscount Walden, P.Z.S. &c. (Plate I.) 18 



III. On a Fourth Collection of Birds from the Fan tee Country. By R. B. 



Shaepe. (Plates II., III.) 52 



IV. A List of the Birds of Turkey. By H. J. Elwes, F.Z.S., late Captain Scots 



Fusilier Guards, and T. E. Btjckley, B.A., F.Z.S 59 



V. On the Ornithology of Hainan. By Robert Swikthoe, F.Z.S. &c. (Plate IV.) 77 



VI. Notes on the Birds of the Island of St. Helena. By John Charles Melliss 97 



VII. Additional Notes on Mr. Laun-ence's List of Costa-Rica Birds. By Osbert 



Salvin, M.A., F.Z.S., &c 107 



VIII. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English: — G. R. Gray's 'Hand-List of Birds;' 'Gould's Monogi-aph of the Tro- 



f/onidce,' 2nd ed. part ii., 'Birds of Asia,' part xx., 'Supplement to the Birds 

 of Australia,' part v., and ' Birds of Great Britain,' parts xv. and x\'i. ; Sharpe's 

 * MonogTaph of the Alcedinidce,^ parts iv.-vi. ; Hutton on the Sailing Flight of 

 theAlbatros; Bowden's 'Naturalist in Norway;' Sterland's 'Birds of Sherwood 

 Forest ;' Cecil Smith's ' Birds of Somersetshire ;' Robert Gray and Anderson's 

 ' Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire ;' Turnbull's ' Birds of East Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey ' 110 



2. German : — Cabanis on the Ornithology of Von der Decken's Travels ; Von Heug- 



lin's ' Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's,' Lief. 1-11 ; Hartlaub and Finsch's ' Omi- 

 thologie Ostafrika's — Eiuleitung;' Borggreve's 'Vogel-Fauna von Norddeutsch- 

 land;' Droste-Hiilshofrs 'Vogelwelt der Nordseeinsel Borkum;' ' Bericht iiber 

 die XVn. Versammlmig der Deutschen Omithologen Gesellschaft ;' Seidlitz's 

 ' BUdungsgesetze der Vogeleier ' 127 



3. Finnish : — Maklin's ' Vetenskapliga Grander fiir Bestammandet af Fogelarternas 



Ordningsfdljd ;' Malmgren's ' Ornithologiska Notiser ' and ' Anteckningar om Fin- 

 lands och Skandinaviska halfdns Anseridce ' 131 



4. Italian : — Bettoni's ' Uccelli che uidificano in Lombardia ;' De Betta ' Sulla straor- 



dinarie od accidentale Comparsa di Uccelli nelle Provincie Venete ;' Sulvadori's 



' Monografia del genere Ceyx ' 132 



6. PoHuguese : — Bocage's papers in the ' Jomal de Sciencias ' and ' Museu nacional 



de Lisboa — Psittaci, Accijnti-es ' 134 



6. Australasian : — Diggles's ' Ornithology of Australia,' parts xvi.-xx. ; Ornithological 



papers in the ' Transactions and Proceedings of the New-Zealand Institute' . . 135 



TV. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from ]VIr. Allen Hume, Drs. Jerdon and Malmgren, Capt. Shelley, Messrs. 

 H. J. Gurney, J, E. Harting, and R. B. Sharpe, Dr. Salvadori, and Mr. Swinhoe ; 

 Annoimcement of Messrs. Marshall's Monograph of the Capitonidce ; Delay of 

 Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications 136 



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