CONTENTS. XV 



Pago 



42. Sharpe on the Ornithology of Xew Guinea . . . .115 



43. Stejneger on Myiadectes ohscnrns 115 



44. Stejneger on the West-Indian Myiadectcn .... 115 



45. Stejneger's proposed alterations in Nomenclature . .116 



46. Stejneger on the Swans 117 



47. Vorderman's ' Birds of Batavia ' 118 



48. White's ' Cameos from the Silver-Land ' 118 



X. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Mr. Charles A. Wright, Mr. F. S. Mitchell, Mr. 

 Seebohm (two), Mr. H. P. Hornby, and Mr. W. Eagle Clarke ; 

 Proceedings of the Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Union, 1882 ; Mr. Forbes's Zoological Expedition up 

 the Niger ; Proceedings of Foreign Collectors ; New Works in 

 Preparation ; Discovery of a new Bird of Paradise ; Obituary — 

 Prof. Reinhardt 119 



Number II., April. 



XL On the Totanus haughtoni of Armstrong. By J. E. 

 Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (Plate IV.) 133 



XII. On a new Species of Poly pi ect run. By Eugknk W. 

 Gates, F.Z.S. (Plate V.) 13G 



XIII. Descriptions of three new Species of Birds from Bahia, 

 Brazil. By Hans von Berlepsch 137 



XIV. On a new Heed-Warbler from the Island of Nawodo, 

 or Pleasant Island, in the Western Pacific. By Otto Finsch, 

 Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U., &c ' 142 



XV. A Beview of the Species of the Family Icteridc^. — 

 Part I. Cassicimr. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 (Plates VI., VII.) . . ' 145 



XVI. Remarks on the Thrushes of the Ethiopian Region. 



By Henry Seeboum, F.Z.S 164 



XVII. Notes on Hirundo rufida and its Allies, with De- 

 scription of a supposed new Subspecies. By Henry Seebohm, 

 F.Z.S .' 3 67 



