INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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L'Estrange, P. W., remarts on tbe effect 

 of the law on bird-catchiug, 119. 



Levant, notes on the birds of the, 481. 



LiraicoL'E in the Biitish Museum, cata- 

 logue of the, noticed, 132; on the 

 eggs of the, noticed, 280. 



Limosa, on the species of the genus, 564. 



Linneau types in the Upsala Museum, 

 noticed, 276. 



Lipomorph, explanation of the term, 

 439. 



Lloyd, C. A., on the parasitism of 

 Cassidix oryzivora, 143. 



Lonnberg, E., on Linnean types at Up- 

 sala, noticed, 276. 



Loomis, L. M., on the Water-birds of 

 California, noticed, 125. 



Lorenz, L. v., on the Parrots of the 

 genus Nestor, noticed, 277. 



' Lories,' ' Monograph of the,' noticed, 

 126. 



Lucas, F. A., contributions to the 

 Natural History of the Commander 

 Islands. The Cranium of Pallas's 

 Cormorant, noticed, 277. 



• , and Ridgway, R., on the Proc- 



niatidffi, noticed, 125. 



Lucknow, birds'-nesting in and around 

 in 1896, 554. 



Macpherson, H. A., exhibition of hy- 

 brids of Lagopus scoticus and Tetrao 

 tetrix, 119. 



Madagascar, on a new Swift from, 

 noticed, 123 ; on fossil remains of 

 Carinate birds from Central, 343 ; on 

 birds collected by W. L. Abbott in, 

 noticed, 621. 



Malay Archipelago, list of Semon's 

 birds from the, noticed, 129. 



Mallacoota, a trip to, noticed, 125. 



Margarita Island, on birds of, noticed, 

 282. 



Marocco, ornithological notes from, 51. 



Martorelli, Gr., on the variations of a 

 Lory (Eos fuscata) as exhibited by 

 specimens in the Turati collection, 

 60 ; on Falco sacer in Italy, noticed, 

 466 ; note on Napothera pyrrhoptera 

 and Myiothera epilepidota, noticed, 

 466. 



Masefield, J. R. B., on wild bird pro- 

 tection and nest ing-boxe?,noticed,619. 



Mau (British East Africa), exhibition 

 of some Weaver-birds from, 44(). 



Mauritius, on the Avifauna of, noticed, 

 469. 



Menzbier, M., description of and re- 

 marks upon Syrnium willkonskii, 

 113, 259. 



Merriam, C. H., on species and sub- 

 species, noticed, 620. 

 Merriam, Florence A., ' A-birding on a 



Bronco,' noticed, 278. 

 Mexico, on birds from Alta Mira, 



noticed, 282 ; on new birds from, 



noticed, 4()8. 

 Meyer, A. B., and Wiglesworth, L. W., 



on birds collected by Drs. Sarasin in 



Celebes, noticed, 260. 

 Migration of Birds in Grreat Britain and 



Ireland, noticed, 272. 

 Millais, J. G., exhibition of male birds 



showing female plumage, 438. 

 Mivart, 8t. Gr., 'Monograph of the 



Lories,' noticed, 126. 

 Montenegro, on the birds of, noticed, 



280. 

 Moore, J. E. S., return of, from Lake 



Tanganyika, 491. 

 Munn, P. W., ornithological notes from 



Marocco, 51. 

 Muzioli, Dr., on birds collected at 



Tigre by, noticed, 622. 



Nansen, F.,the breeding-place of Ross'a 

 Gull, 144 ; 'Farthest North,' noticed, 

 467. 



Nathusius, W. v., on the oology of the 

 Rheas, noticed, 127. 



' Natural History as a Vocation,' no- 

 ticed, 613. 



Nelson, E. W., on new birds from 

 Mexico and Guatemala, noticed, 468. 



Nesting of Cassicus persicus, Cassidix 

 oryzivora, Gymiiomystax melauicte- 

 rus, and Todirostruni maculatum, 

 361. 



New Guinea, on a new Bird of Paradise 

 from British, 250 ; diagnosis of 

 thirty-six new or little-known birda 

 from British, 371. 



New South Wales, list of Insectivorous 

 birds of, noticed, 279. 



Newton, A., and Gadnw, 11.,' Dictionary 

 of Birds,' noticed, 278. 



Newton, Sir E., obituarial notice of, 475. 



Nias, on the birds from, noticed, 4()0. 



Nicaragua, on a new Ant- Thrush from, 

 noticed, 282. 



North, A. J., on the nest of Petroeca 

 leggii, noticed, 279; list of Insectivo- 

 rus birds of New South Wales, pt. 1, 

 noticed, 279 ; on Mr. 0. Hedley's 

 birds from Funafuti, noticed, 469. 



'Norway,' 'Wild,' noticed, 612. 



Nyasaland, nute on Mr. Whyte's expe- 

 dition to tlie mountains of Nortli, 

 141 ; on Mr. Whyte's collection of 

 birds from the Nyika Plateau, 518, 



