CONTENTS OF NUMBER 1. {continued). 



30. Ridgway on Costarican Birds j 



31. Ridgway on new Birds fi'om the Sandwich. Islands . . [■ 110 



32. Ridgway on a new Owl • • ) 



33. Ridgway on new Thrushes from the United States . . ) 



34. Ridgway on two new North-American Birds . . . • ( -iii 



35. Ridgway on new Races of American Birds f 



36. Ridgway on Harporhynchus and Methriopterus . . . . ) 



37. Ridgway on the Tree-creepers ( Certhia) (no 



38. Salvadori on the Cassowaries j 



39. Salvadori's ' Prodromus ' xiii., xiv., and xv [ , , ., 



40. Seebohm's 'Siberia in Asia' f ^^^ 



41. Seebohm's ' Bi-itish Birds and their Eggs ' 114 



42. Sharpe on the Ornithology of New Guinea 1 



43. Stejneger on Myiadectes obscunis I 115 



44. Stejneger on the West-Indian Myiadectce ) 



45. Stejueger's proposed Alterations in Nomenclature . . . ,116 



46. Stejneger on the Swans 117 



47. Vorderman's ' Birds of Batavia ' i n « 



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



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 Orni- 

 thologists' Union, 1882 ; Mr. Forbes's Zoological Expedition 

 up the Niger ; Proceedings of Foreign Collectors ; New Works 

 in Preparation ; Discovery of a new Paradise-bird ; Obituary — 

 Prof Reinhardt 119 



Publications received since the issue of the last Number. 



1. Seebohm. Siberia in Asia. 



2. Hoffman. List of Birds observed at Ft. Berthold, D. T., during Sep- 

 tember 1881. (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. xxi.) 



3. Zeledon. Catalogo de las Aves de Costa-Rica. 



4. Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. No. 11. 



5. Habvie-Brown, Migration of Birds upon our British Coasts, 



6. Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1881, 



7. Habvie-Brown. Third Report on Scottish Ornithology. (Proc. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Glasgow, 1881.) 



8. Harvie-Brown, Past and Present Distribution of some of the Rarer 

 Animals of Scotland. 



9. In Memoriam Edward Richard Alston, (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 

 1881.) 



10. Gates. List of the Birds of Pegu. (Stray Feathers, vol. x.) 



11. Dubois. Variabilite des Oiseaux du genre Loxia. (Bull. Mus. Royal 

 d'Hist. Nat. Belgique, tome i.) 



12. MiJLLER. Die Ornis der Insel Salanga. 



13. Ramsay. New Birds from the Solomon Islands. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 

 S. W. vol. vii.) 



14. HuET. Note sur les Naissances d'Oiseaux. (Bull. Soc. d'Acclimat. de 

 France, 1882.) 



15. Babboza du Bocage. Aves das possessoes portuguezas da Africa occi- 

 dental. — Lista xxiii. (Jorn. Sc. Math., Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, no. xxxiii.) 



16. Shufeldt. Notes upon the Osteology of Cmclus mexicanus. (Bull. 

 Nuttall Oruith. Club. vol. vii.) 



17. Blasius und Nehrkorn. Dr. Platen's ornithologische Sammlungen aus 

 Amboina. (Verh. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, 1882.) 



18. Mela. Suomen Luurankoiset. 8vo. Helsingissa, 1882. 



19. The Ornithologist and Oologist, nos. 22, 23. 



20. The Field Naturalist, no. 7. 



21. Payne-Gallwey. The Fowler in Ireland. 8vo. London, 1882. 



