CONTJiiiNTS Ul" lNUiM15Eilt lA. {cuminucu). 

 XL Letters, Extracts, Xotices, &c. , Page 



Letters IVoiii Mr. J. D. de La Touclie, Count T. Salvadon, and 

 :Mr. Osbert Salvin. Mr. D. G. Elliot's Expedition to Somaliland ; 

 Mr." Wliyte's new Expedition to the Mountains of North Nyasa- 

 land ; Hare Briti.sh Kirds ; Larasitism of Cassidi.v oryzivora ; 

 Breedinir-place of Ross's Gull ; New Index to ' The Ibis ' 

 (1877 !)5) ; The Agak^a Islands; Swallow-Bluff in British 

 Columbia;' The late Mr. Seebohm's Posthumous Works ; List of 

 Illustrated Ornithological Works in Course of Publication, and 



Dates of the last Parts issued ^ 138 



XII. Obituary. — G. Brown Goode and Auguste Salle 147 



Publications rkceived since the issue of No. 8, Seventh Series, 



AND NOT noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



1. Areigoni Degt.i Oddi. La Caccia di Botte o di Valle nelle Lagune di 

 Venezia. (8vo. Milano, 1894.) 



2. Arrigoni 1)egli Oddi. Le ultime ajiparizioni dell' Adochelidon sandvi- 

 censis (Lath.) nel Veneziuio. (Atti Soj. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxvl. 1896.) 



8. Bird Migiation in Great Britain and Irel md. Keport of the Committee, 

 consisting of Prof. Newton, Mr. J. Cordeaux, Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, Mr. R. 

 M. Barrington, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, and Re^•. E. P. Knubley. (Rep. Brit. 

 Assoc. 189G.) 



4. BuLLER. Notes on New Zealand Ornithology, with an Exhibition ot 

 Specimens. (Trans. New Zealand Ii.st. xxviii. p. 32(3.) 



5. BtJTTiKOFER. On a new Duck from the Island of Sumba. (Notes 

 Leyden Mas. xviii. p. 59.) 



6. Capek. Beitrage zur FortpHanzungsgeschichte des Kuckucks. (Ornith. 

 Jahrb. vii. 1886.) 



7. GuRNEY. The New Zealand Owl {Sceloylaux albifacies, Gray) in Cap- 

 tivity. (Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. Soc. vi. p. 154.) 



8. HoMEYER. Mus.mm Homeyeiianum. — Verzeichniss der ornithologischen 

 Sammlungen. (8vo. Braunschweig, 1893.) 



9. Hood. Papers presented to the World's Congress on Ornithology, edited 

 by Mrs. Irene Hood under the direction of Dr. Elliott Coues. (Chicago, 1896.) 



10. JuDD. Four Common Birds of the Farm and Garden. (Reprinted from 

 Year-book U.S. Dept. Agr. 1895, p. 405.) 



11. Kniszourek uxd Praz.vk. Ornithologische Beobachtungen aus der 

 Umgebung von Caslau uud dem Eisengebirge in Ostbohmen. (Mittheil. 

 ornith. Yer. Wien, 1894-95.) 



12. Koenig. Reisen und Forschungen in Algerien. (8vo. 1896.) 



13. Lee. Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, illustrated by the 

 Camera. (Part I. Folio. Edinburgh, 189U.) 



14. Lonnberg. Linnean Type-specimeis of Birds, Reptiles, Batrachians, and 

 Fishes in the Zoological Museum of the R. University of Upsala. (Bihang 

 K. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Haudl. xxii..Afd. iv. No. 1.) 



15. LouENZ. Ueber die Nestor-Papageien. (Verb. k.-k. zool.-bot. Gesell. 

 Wien, 1896.) 



10 Lucas. Contributions to the Natural History of the Commander 

 Islands.— XL The Cranium of Pallas's Cormorant. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xviii. p. 717.) 



17. Merriam. A-Birding on a Bronco. (12mo. Bos^ton and New York, 1896.) 



18. North. A List of the Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales. 

 Part I. (8vo. Sydney, 1896.) 



19. North. Note 'on a Nest of Petroeca le//(/u, Sharpe. (Records Austral. 

 Mus. ii. no (i.) 



20. Ornithologisches Jahibuch. (vii. Hefte 5, 6.) 



21. pRAzAK.'' Ornithologische Notizen. (Ornith. Monatsb. 1895, p. 143.) 



22. Prazak, Einiges liber die sogenannten " Fremdkleider " unserer ViJgel. 

 (Ornith. Monatss. Deuts. Ver. z. Schutze Vogelw. xxi. p. 184.) 



2:1 Prazak. Ornithologische Notizen.— HI. (Ornith. Monatsb. 1896, no. 7.) 

 24. Richmond. Description of a new Species of Ant-Thrush from Nicaragua. 



(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 625.) 

 ■25. Richmond. Partial List of Birds collected at Alta Mira, Mexico, by 



Mr. Frank B. Armstrong. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 627.) 



26. RoBiNSON. An Annotated List of Birds observed on Margarita Island, 

 and at Guanta and Laguayra, Venezuela. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 649.) 



27. Salvadoui. (^atalogo di una CoUezione di Uccelli delle vicinauze di Deli 

 in Sumatra. (Bull. Mus. Zool. Torino, xi. no. 250.) 



28. The Victorian Naturalist, (xiii. no. 250.) 



