CONTENTS. 



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I. A Revision of the Genus Haplopelia. By David A. Banner- 

 man, B.A., M.B.O.U., F.R.G.S 1 \ 



II. Notes on some of the Birds of Grand Cayman, West Indies. 



By T. M. Savage English. (Plate I.) I7 



III. Noteg on the Birds of the Jhelum District of the Punjab. By 

 Hugh Whistler, M.B.O.U. With Notes on the Collection 

 by Claud B..TTCEHUKSX, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Plate II.) . . 35 



lY. Note on a remarkable Honey-eater ( Woodfordia mjjerciliosa 

 Nort.h) from Bennell Island in the Western Pacific. By 

 .C. M. WooDEORD, C.M.G., late Resident Commissioner, 

 British Solomon Islands Protectorate. (Plate III.) . .118 



V. Studies on the Charadriiformes. — III. Notes in Relation to 

 the Systematic Position of the Sheath-bills (Chionididte). 

 By Percy R. Lowe, M.B., M.B.O.U. (Text-figures 1-4.) . 122 



VI. Obituary: R. M. Barrington, E. S. Cameron, Otto Herman, 

 Hon. Gerald Legge, Sir A. W. Riieker, C. H. T. Whiteliead, 

 H. E. Dresser 1,3.-) 



YII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : 



« Blaauw's Travels in South Africa ; Chalmers Mitchell on the 



Anatomy of the Coulan. or Limpkin ; Chapin on new African 

 Birds ; Cooke on the Protection of the American Shore-birds ; 

 Corv on new South American Birds ; Faxon on Peale's Museum • 

 Ghidini on the Herring-Gull ; Gordon on Hill Birds of Scot- 

 land; Hony on AViltshire Birds ; Leviok on the Adtjlie Pen- 

 guin ; Mathews on Australian Birds ; Miller on new Generic 

 Types ; Shufeldt on the Eggs of the Auklets ; Taverner on the 

 shortcomings of Canadian Ornithologists ; Thorburu's British 

 Birds ; Wood 011 the Eyelids of Birds ; The Auk ; Avicultural 

 Magazine; California Fish and Game ; Messager Ornitho- 

 logique ; and List of other Ornithological Publicatfons received. 163 



YIII. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from the Marquis of Tavistock and J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown ; List of M.B.O.U. .serving with H.M. Forces ; Oological 

 Dinner ; Experiments on Homing j Notice to B.O.U, Members. 182 



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 of London, Regent's Park, N.W., of any change of Address, so that the 

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