INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



611 



Malayan Peninsula, new species of birds 

 from the, 99. 



Malformations of the bill in birds, 338. 



Matto Grosso, H. H. Smith's birds from 

 Chapado, 165. 



Maximilian types, notes on, l(i4. 



Menzbier, M. A., Severtzow's Ornitho- 

 logy of Turkestan, livr. 3, noticed, 

 336. 



Merriam, C. H., on birds from Idaho, 

 and description of a new Owl, noticed, 

 336. 



Mesobucco eximius. figured, plate xi. 



Meres, F. W., death of, 191. 



Meyer, A. B., on a variety of the Par- 

 tridge, noticed, 172 ; letter on the 

 correct locality of Criniger aureus and 

 on the birds of the Togian Islands, 

 179 : on birds from New Guinea and 

 New Britain, noticed, 337. 



Millais. J. G., ' Game Birds and Shoot- 

 ing-Sketches, noticed, 453. 



Mindoro, birds from, 170. 



Mivart, St. G.,' Elements of Ornithology,' 

 noticed, 568. 



Moa, disappearance of the, 334; classi- 

 fication of tlie Moas, 566. 



Modigliani, E., birds from Sumatra, 

 459 ; birds from Engano, 460. 



Mogador, bird -notes from, 471. 



Molothrus, revision of the species of, 

 344. 



Moluccas, additions to the ornithologj- 

 of, 176. 



Myzomela, a new species from New 

 Ireland, 350. 



Nectariuia osea\ distribution of, 469. 



Nesting in ^Yestern India, 166. 



Nestor norfolceusis, note on, 557. 



New Britain, birds from, 337. 



Newfoundland, explorations in, 453. 



New Guinea, birds from, 337 ; new 

 birds from, 347 ; Loria's birds from, 

 176. 



New Ireland, a new Mvzomela from, 

 350. 



New Zealand, ornithological notes from, 

 250 ; rare birds of, 330. 



Nicaragua, a collection of birds from 

 Central, 324. 



Nidifieation of Plotos novie-hoUandiie, 

 Edoliosoma tenuirostre, and Tm'nix 

 melanotus, 455. 



North. A. J., on nests and eggs of birds 

 found breeding in Australia and Tas- 

 mania, noticed, 337 ; on the nidifi- 

 eation of Plotus noTK-hollandi£e, of 

 Edoliosoma tenmrostre, and of Tur- 

 nis melanotus, noticed, 455. 



Gates, E. W., remarks on the ' Birds of 

 British India,' by W. E. Brooks, 59. 



Ogilvie-Grant, see Grant. 



Olphe-Galliard, L., on the birds of the 

 environs of Lyons, noticed, 172. 



Opisthocomus cristatus, crop and ster- 

 num of, 565. 



Oregon, fossil birds from, 574. 



Orkney Islands, Vertebrate Fauna of 

 the, 166. 



Ornithology, ilivart's Elements of, 

 568. 



Osteological Specimens of Birds in the 

 College of Surgeons, 461. 



Osteology of Arctic and Sub-Arctic 

 Water-birds, ,343 ; of the Paridse, 

 171. 



Otocorjs berlepschi, figured, plate xiii. 



Oustalet, E., Scientific mission to Cape 

 Horn, Birds, noticed, 173; descrip- 

 tion of two new birds of tlie famihes 

 Paradiseidae and Trogonidre, noticed, 

 174 ; on the birds of China and Tibet, 

 noticed, 455. 



Owl, a new species of, from Idaho, 336. 



Oxford University Museum, the Bird- 

 collections in the, 186. 



Packard, A. S., ' The Labrador Coast,' 



noticed, 569. 

 Paliearctic White-breasted Dippers, 



380. 

 Pallas's Sand-Grouse, litei-ature on, 



171. 

 Papua, additions to the ornithology of, 



176; Loria's birds from, 176. 

 Paradise-birds, monograph of the, 340; 



cubital coverts in the, 463. 

 Paradiseidse, monograph of the, 340; 



a new species of, 174. 

 Parasitic Birds, 559. 

 Paridffi, osteology of, 171. 

 Parrakeet, range and habits of the 



Carolina, 562. 

 Parrots in the British Museum, 458. 

 Partridge, on a variety of the, 172. 

 Patterson, R. L., letter on uncommon 



birds in the North of Ireland, ISO. 

 Pedionomus torquatus, structure and 



systematic position of, 451. 

 Pelzeln, A. von. death of, 188. 

 Perkins. E. C. L., expedition to tlie 



Sandwich Islands. 351. 

 Petrels of Madeira, 564. 

 Philippine Islands, birds from the, 170. 

 Picaria in the British Museum,' 570, 



572. 

 Pigeons, classification of the, 177. 

 Pilcomavo, avifauna of the Lower 



120. 

 Platystira jacksoni figured, plate vii. 



