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[NDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Nyika Plateau, on Mr. Whyte's collec- 

 tion of birds from the, 518. 



Gates, E. W., return of, from Burmah, 

 490. 



Oberholser, H. C, on two new sub- 

 species of Dryobates pubescens, no- 

 ticed, 128. 



Oology of the Rheas, noticed, 127. 



' Operculum ' in R;itite Birds, 289. 



Ornithological works in progress, list 

 of, 146. 



Oustalet, E., on the Avifauna of Mau- 

 ritius, noticed, 469. 



Palajarctic birds, notes on, noticed, 

 614. 



Palamedeidas, letter on the nomencla- 

 ture of the, 138. 



Paradise-birds, on new species of, 250, 

 252 ; exhibition of specimens ot, 259, 

 261, 443, 447 ; monograph of the 

 Birds of Paradise, noticed, 285. 



' Paradiseidce,' ' Monograph of the,' 

 noticed, 285. 



Paraguay, extracts from letters from 

 Mr. Graham Kerr on the birds of, 

 115,257,261. 



Parii Museum, note on the, 488 ; 

 ' Boletin ' of the, noticed, 463. 



Parasitism of Cassidix oryzivora, 290. 



Parkin, T., exhibition of an egg dredged 

 in Rye Bay, 264. 



Partridge, exhibition of a curious 

 spangled variety of the, 263. 



Pearson, C. E., exhibition of eggs of 

 Sylvia cinerea, showing a pink tinge, 

 256. 



Pearson, H. J., departure of, for 

 Barents Sea, 493. 



Penrose, F., notes on the hibernation 

 of Swallows in England, 255 ; note 

 on the death of 0. B. Wharton, 447; 

 exhibition of an albino Skylark, 452. 



Perkins, R. C. L., return of, from the 

 Sandwich Islands, 491. 



Peter Botte (Mt.), ascent of, noticed, 

 618. 



• Pheasants, their Natural History and 

 Management,' noticed, 473. 



Philippines, exhibition of a series of 

 birds' skins collected by Mr. J. 

 Whitehead in the, 115; notes on the 

 birds of Samar and Leite, 209. 



Phillips, E. L., exhibition and descrip- 

 tion of some birds from the Goolis 

 and Wagga Mountains, Somaliland, 

 448, 449 ; return of, from Somaliland, 

 491. 



Plumage, changes of, in the Weaver- 

 birds, 359 ; on male birds assuming 

 female, 438. 



Po])ham, H. L., notes on birds observed 

 on the Yenisei River, Siberia, in 

 1895, 89; exhibition of birds and 

 eggs from the Yenisei River, 438. 



Poynting, F., ' Eggs of British Birds— 

 LimicoliB,' noticed, 280. 



Procniatidae, characters of the, noticed, 

 125. 



Protection of birds and nesting-boxes, 

 noticed, 619. 



Protective coloration, experiments on, 

 287. 



Psittacella, on the genus, 58. 



Ptilonorhynchida;, monograph of the, 

 noticed, 285. 



Pycnonotus, on the genus, and its allies, 

 noticed, 121. 



Pyrenees, further notes on the birds of 

 the, 64. 



Queensland, on birds' eggs from, 392; 

 exhibition of jihotographs of eggs and 

 nests of the birds of, 452; ascent of 

 Mt. Peter Botte in North, noticed, 

 618. 



Quelch, J. J., on migratory birds in 

 British Guiana, noticed, 470. 



RatitiB, the ' Operculum ' in the, 289. 



Read, R., exhibition of some birds' 

 nests from Sweden, 117. 



Red Sea, on the birds of the western 

 coast of the, 196. 



Reed, E. C, catalogue of Chilian birds, 

 noticed, 128. 



Reichenow, A., list of Semon's birds 

 from the Malay Archipelago and 

 Australia, noticed, 129 ; on the birds 

 of Togoland, noticed, 470. 



Reiser, 0., and Fuhrer, L. v., ' Ornis 

 Balcanica,' noticed, 280. 



Rheas, the oology of the, noticed, 127. 



Richmond, 0. W., on a collection of 

 birds from Kashmir, Baltistan, and 

 Ladak, noticed, 129 ; on birds from 

 Central Asia, noticed, 281 ; on a new 

 Ant-Thrusn from Nicaragua, noticed, 

 282; on birds from Alta Mira, 

 Mexico, noticed, 282; on birds col- 

 lected by W. L. Abbott in Madagas- 

 car, noticed, 621. 



Rifkett, C. B., on birds collected in 

 Fohkien by, 169, 600 ; news of, from 

 China, 493. 



, and La Touche, J. D. de, 



descriptions of some apparently new 

 birdd from China, 451. 



