XXII. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. , , ^ „ ,, , .. ^"S'' 



Letters from Mr. A. H. Holland and Dr. G. Hartlaub. New 

 Hvpei inionts on Protective Coloration ; The Kosy Bulltinch m 

 J-Iollaiid ; 'I'he Chaffinch of Timbuctoo ; The " Operculum in 

 Katite liirds ; The Parasitism of Cassidix onjzioora ; l"he Generic 

 Name of the Swifts V \-- " •,\i/-,i" ' ^^^ 



XXIII Obituary.— Heiurich Giitke, C. E. Eendirc, and William 



Grah;i 



291 



Publications received since the issue of No. 9, Seventu Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



29. Annals of Scottish Natural History. (No. 21, January 1897.) 



;30. .\ruiooni degt.i Oddi. Nuta sopra una Varieta di Ntjruca afncana. 

 (Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxvi.) 



31. Arrigoni dkgh Oddi. Note Oraitologiche per 1 Anno 189o. (Atti 

 Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxvi.) i. r. , . , ,, 



.32. AuRiiJONi PEGLi Oddi. Note sopra un Anomalia di Oolonto della 

 Querqiiedula crecca. (Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxvi.) 



.33. Blaavw. Notes sur la Reproduction du Tinamou roux en CaptivittJ 

 en Uollande. (Bui!. Soc. d'AccLim. France, 1896.) 



34. Boletini do Mu^eu Paraense. (Vol. i. no. 4.) 



30. Butler, ludiana: a Century of Changes in the Aspects of Nature. 

 (Proc. Indiana Ac. Sci. no, v., 1895.) 



36. BuTTiKOFER. On a Collection of Birds from Nias. (Notes Leyden 

 Mus. xviii. p. 161.) 



37. BtJTTiKOFRR. On a probably new Species of Neiutonia from Madagascar. 

 (Notes Leyden Mus. xviii. p. 199.) 



38. Chapman. Notes on Birds observed in Yucatan. (Bull. Amer. Mus, 

 N. H. viii. p. 271.) 



39. D.-vGLEisH. Notes on a " List of the Birds which have been observed 

 in the district of Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire." with additions thereto. (Trans. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, New Ser. iv. part 3.) 



40. GoDMAN and Salvin. ' Biologia Centrali- Americana.' (Zoology, Parts 

 cxxxii. Dec. 1896, cxxxiii. Jan. 1897 ; Aves, vol. ii. pp. 545-598.) 



41. Grant. A Hand-Book of the Game-Birds. (Vol. ii. 8vo. London, 

 1897.) 



42. IIartert. An Account of the Collections of Birds made by Mr. \V. 

 Doherty in the Eastern Archipelago. (Novitates Zool. iii. p. 537.) 



43. IIartkrt. List of a Collection of Birds made in Lombok, by Mr. 

 Alfred Everett. (Novitates Zool. iii. p. 591.) 



44. Hkadley. The Atoll of Funafuti, EUice Group : its Zoology, Botany, 

 Etiinology, and General Structure, based on Collections made by Mr. C. Iledley. 

 (Mem. Australian Mus. iii.) 



45. Martoreli.i. Nota Ornitologica intorno ad un nuovo esemplare di 

 Falcone, sacro preso nelle vicinanze di Lucera. (Atti Soc. Ital. xxxvi.) 



46. Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (xx. nos. 3, 4.) 



47. Nelson. Preliminary Descriptions of new Birds from Mexico and 

 Guatemala in the Collection of the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 (' Auk,' 1897, p. 42.) 



48. Oberholser. A Preliminary List of the Birds of Wayne County, 

 Ohio. (Bull. Ohio Agr. Exper. Station, Technical Ser. i. no. 4, 1896.) 



49. OiiERHOLSER. Critical Remarks on the Mexican Forms of the Genus 

 Cerfhia. (' Auk,' xiii. p. 314.) 



50. OusTALET. Notice sur la Faune Ornithologique Ancienne et Moderne des 

 IL'S Mascaveigues. (Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 7, iii. p. 1.) 



51. pRAZ.vK. Vahev Acrocepludus jialu^tvis liorticolus, Naum. (' Aquila,' iii. 

 p. 187.^ 



52. Records of the Australian Museum. (Vol. iii. no. 1.) 



53. Kkichenow.* Ein Vei-zeichniss seiner bisherigen Arbeiten, 1839-96, 

 (Svo. 18s0.) 



54. Re.chenow. Zur Vogelfauna von Tog.i. (J. f. O. 1897, p. 1.) 



55. Rothschild and Hartert. Contributions to the Ornithology of the 

 Papuan Islands. (Novitates Zool. iii. p. 5-'iO.) 



56. Sc LATER. B.bliography of the published writiugs of. (Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 .Mus. no. 49.) 



57. Shufeldt. Fossil Bones of liirds and Mammals from Grotto Pietro, 

 Tampuni, and Gnve St. Alban. (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1896, p. 507.) 



58. Stirling and Zietz. Preliminary Notes on Genyornis neivtoni, a New 

 (ienus and Species of Fossil Struthious Biid found at Lake CiUabonna, 

 S. Australia. (Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. xx. p. 171.) 



