CONTENTS, XIX 



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 Number IV., October. 



XXXVI. Notes upon some Rare Species of Neotropical Birds. 

 By Robert Ridgway, Curator, Department of Birds, United- 

 States National Museum 399 



XXXVII. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. IV. On the Wood- 

 peckers of the Ethiopian Region. By Edward Hargitt, F.Z.S. 

 (Plate XII.) 401 



XXXVIII. Descriptions of six new Species of Birds from 

 Southern and Central America. By Hans von Berlepsch. 

 (Plate XIII.) 487 



XXXIX. The last Journal of W. A. Forbes . . . . .494 



XL. A List of the Birds collected by the late Mr. W. A. 

 Forbes in the Niger Region. By Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S. 

 (Plate XIV.) 538 



XLL Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



102. Blakiston on the Geographical Distribution of the 



Birds of Japan 562 



103. Blakiston's Ornithological Notes. Nos. I.-III. . . .562 



104. Blasius on Birds from the South-east of Borneo . . 563 



105. Blasius on Birds from Ceram 563 



106. Boucard on a new Pseudocolaptes 564 



107. Brusina on Anomalies in some Croatian Birds . . . 564 



108. ' Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club ' . . .564 



109. Dalgleish on Passer montanus 564 



110. Dollo on the Existence and Use of the " Third Tro- 



chanter " in Birds 565 



111. Dubois on the Existing Species of Pelicans .... 566 



112. Durnford on the Birds of Walney Island 566 



113. Dybowski on the Puffins of Kamtschatka .... 566 



114. Gadow's Catalogue of the Faridce, Laniidfe, and Cer- 



thiomorphce 567 



115. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 568 



116. Hartlaub on Birds from Alaska 569 



117. Homeyer and Tancre's Birds of the Altai .... 569 



118. Krukenberg on the Colouring-matters of Birds' Eggs 570 



119. Kutter on Philippine Birds 571 



120. Lawrence on new Birds from Tropical America . . 571 



