CONTENTS OF NUMBER XXII.— NEW SERIES. 



X. Notes relating chiefly to the Birds of India. By Edward Bltth, Hon. 



Mem. As. Soc 157 



XI. Note on the Systematic Position of Indicator. By P. L. Sclatee, M.A., 



Ph.D., F.R.S 176 



XII. Stray Notes on Ornithology in India. By Allan 0. Hfme, C.B. . . . 181 



XIII. On some other new and little-known Birds, collected during a Voyage 

 round the World in 1865-68 by H.I.M's.S. 'Magenta.' By Henry 

 HiLLYER GiGLioLi, Sc.D., C.M.Z.S., and Thomas Salvadori, M.D., 

 C.M.Z.S 185 



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



Fusilier Guards, and T. E. Btjckley, B.A., F.Z.S 188 



XV. On rare or little-known Limicolce. By James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., 



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



XVI. On the Oriolidce of the Ethiopian Kegion. By R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S. 



(Plates VII., VIII.) 213 



XVII. On the Ornithology of Hainan. By Robert Swinhoe, F.Z.S. &c. 



(Plate IX.) 230 



XVIII. On Existing Remains of the Gare-fowl {Alca impennis). By Alfred 



Newton 256 



XIX. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English: — Sclater and Salvia's ' Exotic Ornithology/ parts ix.-xiii. ; Rodd on the 



Birds of Cornwall ; Ornithological Papers in the ' Proceedings ' of the Glasgow 

 Natural-History Society; Eyton's 'Supplement to Osteologia Avium;' A. 0. 

 Smith's ' Spring Tour in Portugal ' 262 



2. French :— Marey on the Flight of Birds 266 



3. Ikdch: — Keulemans's 'Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin'; Crommelin's papers in 



' Archives N^erlandaises ' 268 



4. Gertnan: — Van der Hoeven's ' Anno tati ones de Dromade ardeola'' ; Cramer on 



the Development of the Egg in Birds ; Magnus's Physiologico- Anatomical Re- 

 searches into the Breast-bone of Birds ; Von Pelzeln's ' Ornithologie Brasiliens,' 

 Abth. iii 2?1 



5. Russian : — 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 fi'om Yucatan, from 

 Puna Island, and new South- American Birds ; Ridgway on obscurely known 

 species of American Birds 277 



XX. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. Layard, Hume, Brooks, and R. Gray, Col. Tytler, Lord Walden, 

 Mr. C. Home, Capt. Feilden, Hen- 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 Activity 282 



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