CONTENTS OE NUMBER I.— EIETH SEMES. 



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 I. Notes on the Birds of the Caucasus. By Henkt Sbebohm, 



F.Z.S 1 



II. On the Position of the Acrocephaline Genus Tatar e, with 

 Descriptions of two new Species of the Genus Acrocephalus, 

 By H. B. Tristram, F.K.S. (Plates I., II.) 38 



III. Notes on the Birds of Fanning Island, Pacific. By H. B. 



Tristram, F.R.S 46 



IV. On the Birds of the Pamir Range. By N. A. Setertzow . . 48 

 V. Notes on the earliest available Scientific Name for the Wood- 



chat-Shrike. By Howard Saunders, F.Z.S S'6 



VI. On a Collection of Birds from Borneo. By Francis Nicholson, 



F.Z.S 85 



VII. Observations on the Pied Wagtails of Japan. By Henry Seebohm 90 

 VIII. On the Genera Microhates and Bhamphoccenus of the Family 

 Foi-micariidce. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



(Plate III.) 92 



IX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications: — 



1. Barboza du Bocage on West- African Birds J 



2. Bean on Birds from Alaska and Siberia > 97 



3. Bolau on the Ornis of Eastern Siberia | 



4. Buller on the Notornis I qo 



5. ' BuUetin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club ' . . . . j 



6. Cheeseman on the Occurrence of Charadrius fulvus in New 1 



Zealand | 



7. Cheeseman on the Occurrence of the Australian Roller in J> 99 



New Zealand | 



8. Coues's Check-List of N.-American Birds J 



9. Elliot's ' Hornbills ' \ \02 



10. Grieve on Remains of the Gare-fowl j 



11. ' Guide to the Gould-Collection of Humming-birds ' . . i j^qo 



12. Hartlaub on new Birds from the Upper Nile ( 



13. Krukeuberg on the Colouring-matters of Feathers . . . | 



14. Menzbier on a new Grouse > 104 



15. Menzbiev's ' Ornithological Geography of Russia ' . . . ) 



16. Meyer on the Nestling-Plumage of Edectus 105 



17. Meyer on Xanthochroism in Parrots | 



18. Oustalet on new Birds from Eastern Afiica > 106 



19. Oustalet on Birds from Soraali-land ) 



20. Oustalet on a new Form of Gallinse j 



21. Palmiln on the Migration of Birds |- 107 



22. Parker on the Skeleton of Notornis mantdli | 



23. Ramsay on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands . . . . ] 



24. Ramsay on the Zoology of Lord Howe's Island . . . . ( -i oq 



25. Ramsay on the Eggs of Fijian Birds l" 



26. Ramsay's Contributions to Australian Oology . . . . j 



27. Reischek on the Birds of the Chicken Islands . . . . ) 



28. Report on the Australian Museum, for 1881 ( -iqq 



29. Report of the Committee for the Stations of Observation | 



of the Birds of Germany ) 



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