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IX. On the Birds of Madagascar, and their Connection with 

 Native Folk-lore, Proverbs, and Superstitions. By the llev. 

 James Sibree, Jr., F.R.G.S.— Part IV 103 



X. On the Avifauna of the Lower Pilcomayo. By J. Gkaham 

 Keee, Naturalist to the Pilcomayo Expedition. With Notes 



by the Editor. (Plate III.) . . . . " 120 



XI. On the Birds collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S., " 

 during his recent Expedition to Uganda through the Territory 

 of the Imperial British East- African Company. By R. Bowdler 

 8harpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. With Notes by the Collector. — 

 Part III. (Plate IV.) 152 



^11. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Allen on Maximilian's Types 164 



2. Allen on the Birds of Matto Grosso 165 



3. Barnes on Nests and Eggs of Western India . . .166 



4. Buckley and Harvie-Brown's ' Vertebrate Fauna of 



the Orkney Islands ' 166 



5. Dubois on the Classification of Birds 167 



6. Fiirbringer on recent Progress in Avian Anatomy . . 167 



7. Godman and Salvin's 'Biologia Centrali-Americaua' . 168 



8. Hagerup on the Birds of Greenland . , . . . .169 

 !). Hartert on Birds from Western Java 169 



10. Hartert on Birds from Mindoro, Philippines . . . 170 



11. Hornaday's Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting . . 170 



12. Leverkiihn on Pallas's Sand-Grouse 171 



13. Lucas on the Osteology of the Paridce 171 



14. Lucas on the Tongue of the TrocliiUdof 172 



15. Meyer on a singular Variety of the Partridge . . . 172 



16. Olphe-Galliard on the Birds of the Environs of Lyons . 172 



17. Oustalet on the Birds of Patagonia 173 



18. Oustalet on two new Birds 174 



19. Ramsay'sCatalogueof Birds in the Australian Museum. 174 



20. Ridgway's Directions for Collecting Birds .... 175 



21. Riker and Chapman on the Birds of Santarem . . . 175 



22. Salvadori on Additions to Papuan Ornithology . . . 176 



23. Salvadori on Loria's Ornithological Collections . . . 176 



24. Schalow' on the Birds of the Aleutian and Kurile 



Islands 177 



