CONTENTS OF NUMBER XXIIL— NEW SERIES, 



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 XXI. On the Birds of Xovaya Zemlyca. By George Gillett, F.Z.S. . . . 303 



XXII. Additional Notes on various Indian Birds. By E. C. Beavan, Bengal 



Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S 310 



XXIII. 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., F.Z.S 327 



XXIV. On the Ornithology of Hainan. By Bobeet Swinhoe, F.Z.S. &c. 



(Plate X.) 342 



XXV. The Natural History of Quiscctlus major. By Elliott Cottes, M.D., 



United States' Army 367 



XXVI. On rare or littlc-known Limicolce. By James Edmund Harting, 



F.L.S., F.Z.S. (Plate XI.) 378 



XXVII. Notes on some of the Birds inhahiting the Province of Auckland, 



New Zealand. By Capt. F. W. Hutton 392 



XXVIII. Stray Notes on Ornithology in India. By Allan Hume, C.B. . . . 399 



XXIX. Remarks on some lately-described Pittce, with a Synopsis of the Family 

 as now known. By D. G. Elliot, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Plates XII., 

 XIII.) 408 



XXX. Critical Remarks on Dr. von Heuglin's ' Ornithologie Nordost Afrika's.' 



By R. B. Shaepe, F.L.S., Libr.Z.S 421 



XXXI. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. Hume and J. W. Clark, Heer J. P. van Wickevoort Crommelin, 

 Mr. Layard, Dr. Ilartlaub, Messrs. Tristram and Gurney, and Capt. Shelley ; 

 Death of Prof. Blasius 435 



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