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 XXXT. Oil tliel5irds of Zululand, founded on the Collections 

 made by Messrs. 11. B. and J. D. S. Woodward. By E. Bowd- 

 LER Sharpe, LL.D., Assistant-Xeeper, Sub-Department of Ver- 

 tebrata, British Museum. With a Narrative of their Travels, 

 by E. B. and J. D. B. Woodward. (Plate X.) 400 



XXXII. Various Xotes on Humming-Birds. By Ernst 

 Harterx 423 



XXXIII. Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 1897 430 



XXXIV. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists" Club. 

 Xos. XLIII. XLV 43b 



XXXV. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — - 



62. Annals of Scottish Natural History, Nos. 21 & 22, 



January and April, 1897 453 



63, ' The Auk,' January and April, 1897 453 



G4. ' Avicula' : a new Italian Ornithological Journal , 456 



65. Blaauw's ' Monograph of the Cranes ' 457 



66. Brown- Goode (G.), Bibliography of Sclaters Publi- 



cations 458 



67. Butler on the Effects of Civilization 459 



68. Biittikofer on Birds from Nias 460 



69. Biittikofer on a new Species of Newlonia .... 460 



70. Chapman on the Birds of Yucatan 460 



71. Donaldson-Smith on " Unknown Africa" .... 461 



72. Elliot on Birds from Somaliland 462 



73. Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia Centrali-Americana ' 462 



74. Goeldi on the Birds of Para 463 



75. Hartert on Subspecific and Family Names .... 463 



76. Kingsley's Travels in West Africa 464 



77. Martorelli on Falco sacer in Italy 466 



78. Martorelli on two Myiotherine Birds 466 



79. Nansen's ' Farthest North ' 467 



80. Nelson on new Birds from Mexico and Guatemala . 468 



81. North on the Birds of Funafuti, Ellice Islands . . 469 



82. Oustalet on the Avifauna of Mauritius 469 



83. Quelch on Migratory Birds in British Guiana . . 470 



84. Eeichenow on the Birds of Togoland 470 



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