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[NDEX OF CONTENTS. 



specimens of Nucifraga brachy- 

 rhjnclia and N. luacrorliyncha, 260, 

 265 ; exhibition of and remarks on 

 specimens of Certhia familiaris and 

 C. bracbydactyla, 260; various notes 

 on Humming-birds, 423; description 

 of Phaethornis stuarti, and notes on 

 the genus Phaetliornis, 442 ; exhi- 

 bition of birds from Flo res, 443 ; 

 exhibition of a specimen of lolajma 

 luminosa, 448 ; exhibition of a variety 

 of Ampelis garrulus, 448 ; on sub- 

 specific and family names, noticed, 

 463 ; on the nomenclature of some 

 Philippine birds, noticed, 614; on 

 Palcearctic birds and allied forms, 

 noticed, 614 ; on Mr. Doherty's birds 

 from Celebes, noticed, 614 ; descrip- 

 tions of new species of birds from 

 Flores and Djampea, noticed, 614. 

 Hartlaub, G., letter on Schmacker's 



collection of Chinese birds, 287. 

 Harvie-Brown, J. A., resolution of 

 sympathy with, on the loss of his 

 collections by fire, 263. 

 Hedley, C, on the birds collected in 



Funafuti by, noticed, 469. 

 Helms, O., on birds met with in the 



North Atlantic, noticed, 616. 

 Hibernation of Swallows, notes on the, 



255. 

 Hinde, S. L., news of, from British 



East Africa, 492. 

 Holland, Carpodacus erytkrinus in, 



289. 

 Holland, A. H., Field-notes on the 

 birds of tlie Estancia Sta. Elena, 

 Argentine Republic, Part IV., 166; 

 letter on the birds of the Estancia 

 Sta. Elena. Argentine Republic, 286. 

 HoUandt, W., the collection of birds' 



eggs of the late, 487. 

 Hood, Mrs. B., and Cones, E , on orni- 

 thology at the Chicago Exhibition, 

 noticed, 274. 

 Hooker, Sir J. D., Journal of Sir J. 



Banks, noticed, 267. 

 Hoopoe, the North-east African, 494. 

 Humming-birds, descriptions of two 

 new, 2<54; notes on, 423; of the 

 West Indies, letter on Mr. Lodge's 

 notes on the, 139. 

 Hybrid, exhibition of a Pheasant and 

 Black Grrouse, 263 ; hybrids among 

 wild bii-ds, noticed, 623. 



Index (General) to ' The Ibis,' note on 



the, 144. 

 India, on the occurrence of FuHgula 



baeri and Erismatura leucocephala 



in, noticed, 123. 

 Indiana, a century of changes in the 



aspects of nature in, noticed, 459. 

 Italy, on Falco sacer in, noticed, 466. 



Jackson, F. J., exhibition of some 

 Weaver-birds from Mau, collected 

 by, 446 ; exhibition and description 

 of the birds collected in Uganda by, 

 449; news of, from British East 

 Africa, 492. 



Jesse, W., birds' -nesting in and around 

 Lucknow in 1896, .554. 



Johnston, Sir H. H., ' British Central 

 Africa,' noticed, 616. 



Judd, S. D., on the food of American 

 birds, noticed, 275. 



Kalaw, an additional list of birds from, 



1. 

 Kashmir, on a collection of birds from, 



noticed, 129. 

 Kerr, J. Graham, extracts from letters 



from Paraguay from, 115, 257, 261 ; 



note on his expedition to Paraguay, 



492. 

 Kingsley, Mary H., 'Travels in West 



Africa,' noticed, 464. 

 Koenig, A., travels in Algeria, noticed, 



275. 

 Kuschel, M., on the parasitic habits of 



Cassidix, noticed, 618. 



Ladak, on a collection of birds from, 

 noticed, 129. 



Lane, A. A., field-notes on the Birds of 

 Chili, 8, 177, 297. 



La Touche, J. P. de, letter on the breed- 

 ing of Sterna dongalli on the Swatow 

 coast, 138 ; on birds collected in 

 Fohkien hv, 169, 600 ; news of, from 

 China, 493. 



, and Rickett, C. B., descriptions of 



some apparently new birds from 

 China, 451. 



Lee, O. A. J., exhibition of a series of 

 photographs of the nests and eggs of 

 British Birds, 116; 'British Birds 

 in their Nesting-haunts,' noticed, 

 276, 618. 



Leite, notes on the Birds of the Island 

 of, 209. 



Le Souef, D., a trip to Mallacoota, 

 noticed, 125; descriptions of some 

 new or little-known Birds'-eggs from 

 Queensland, 392 ; ascent of Mt. Peter 

 Botte, North Queensland, noticed 

 618. 



