CONTENTS OF NUMBER XV. {continued). 



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82. Ridgway on the Genus Sittasomus 457 



83. Sahadori's ' Catalooue of Parrots ' 458 



84. Salvador! on Birds from Sumatra 4oU 



85. Salvador! on the Birds of Engano 460 



86. Schaeck on the Francolins 1 .r,-, 



87. Sharpe's 'Catalogue of Osteological Specimens of Birds f 



88. Shufeldt on the American Pygopodes | .r..^ 



89. Stejneger on Japanese Birds f 



90. Stejneger on the Cubital Coverts of the Paradise-birds I .,.o 



91. Taczanowski on the Birds of Eastern Siberia . . . j 



92. Whymper's ' Travels amongst the Great Andes ' . . . 46i 



93. Wiglesworth's ' Aves Polyuesioe ' 465 



XXXIX. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. ' 



Letters from LordLilford; Count T, Salvador!; Heer F. E. 

 Blaauw ; Dr. W. T. Van Dyck ; and Mr. H. Seebohm. 

 Hirundo rustica at Delagoa Bay ; Bird-notes from Mogador ; 

 Ornithologists Abroad; Colius and Hi/pocolius ; New Extinct 

 Bail ; Recent Researches in Fossil Birds ; Anniversary 

 Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 1892 . . . 466 



Publications received since the issue of No. 14^ Sixth Series, 



AND NOT noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



59. Allen. The North-American Species of the Genus Colaptes considered 

 with Special Reference to the Relationships of C. auritus and C. cafer. (Bull. 

 Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 21.) 



60. Allp:x. Notice of some Venezuelan Birds collected by Mrs. H. H. Smith. 

 (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 51.) 



61. Allkn. Description of a new Gallinule from Gough Island. (Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 57.) 



02. CiiEiiiiiE. Description of two apparently new Flycatchers from Costa 

 Rica. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 27.) 



03. Clarke. Report on the Great Skua [Stercorarius eatarrhactes, Linn.) 

 in Shetland during the Season of 1891. (Ann. Scottish Nat. Hist. 1892, p. 87.) 



64. EvAXS. A Preliminary List of the Birds of the Melrose District. (Re- 

 printed from the ' Scottish Naturalist.') 



05. GoDMAN and Salvin. Biologia Central!- Americana. (Zoology, Part cii. 

 May 1892.) 



66. Hartlaub. Ein Beitrag zur Ornithologie Chinas. (Abhandl. naturw. 

 Ver. Bremen, xii. p. 295.) 



07. Irish Naturalist. (Vol. i. nos. 2, 3, May and June, 1892.) 



68. Meeriam. The Geographical Distribution of Life in North America 

 with special reference to the Mammalia. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vii. p. 1.) 



69. Meyer. Salvadoris Ornithologie von Papuasien und den Molukken, 

 Band iii. iiebst Supplementen zu Banden i.-iii. (J. f. 0. 1891, p. 413.) 



70. Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (Jahrg. xvi. 

 nos. 6-9.) 



71. Moore. Recent Additions to the List of Irish Birds. (Irish Naturalist, 

 i. p. 3.) 



72. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. (Vol. iii. Hefte 2, 3.) 



73. Regalia. Su le Unghie e gli Sproni della Mano ornitica. (Monitors 

 Zool. Italiano, iii. p. 10.) 



74. Rhoads. The Birds of South-eastern Texas and Southern Arizona 

 observed during May, June, and July, 1891. (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad, 1892, 

 p. 98.) 



75. Stone. Birds collected by the West Greenland Expedition. (Proc. Ac. 



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