CONTENTS OP NUMBEE IV.— EIETH SERIES. 



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 XXXVI. Notes upon some Rare Species of Neotropical Birds. By 

 RoBEEi EiDGWAT, Curator, Department of Birds, United- 

 States National Museum 399 



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

 of the Ethiopian Region. By Edward Hakgixt, F.Z.S. 

 (Plate XII.) 401 



XXXVIII. Descriptions of six new Species of Birds from Southern 

 and Central America. By Hans von Beklepsch. (Plate 

 XIII.) 487 



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



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

 Forbes in the Niger Region. By Captain G. E. Shelley. 

 (Plate XIV.) 538 



XLI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



102. Blakiston on the Geographical Distribution of the Birds 



of Japan I c/.o 



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



104. Blasius on Birds from the South-east of Borneo ... I gg^ 



105. Blasius on Birds from Ceram ( 



106. Boucard on a new Pseudocolaptes j 



107. Brusina on Anomalies in some Croatian Birds . . . ( c^.j 



108. 'Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Chib' • • -f 



109. Dalgleish on Passer montanus J 



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



chanter " in Birds 66o 



111. Dubois on the Existing Species of Pelicans .... 1 



112. Durnford on the Birds of Walney Island V 566 



113. Dybowski on the Puffins of Kamtschatka ) 



114. Gadow's ' Catalogue of the Paridee, Laniidse, and Certhio- 



morphse ' 567 



115. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea ' 668 



116. Hartlaub on Birds from Alaska I ggg 



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



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



119. Kutter on Philippine Birds 1 



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



121. Eidgway on a new Petrel from Alaska ) * ' 



122. Sharpe's ' Catalogue of the TimeliidjB ' ".672 



123. Stearns and Coues's ' New-England Bird-Life ' . . . . 573 



124. Stevenson on the Dusky Shearwater in Norfolk ... I g^^ 



125. Taczanowski on the European Nuthatches | 



126. Taczanowski on the Birds of Kamtschatka . . . . .1 



127. Tschusi zu Schmidhofen and E. F. von Homeyer on \ 575 



Austro-Hungarian Birds ) 



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