XIV CONTEXTS. 



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XI. List of Birds collected by ifr. H. O. Forbes in the Island 



of Java. By Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S 139 



XII. Description of a new Finch of the Genus Propasser 

 from Yarkund. By Major John Biddulph. (Plate YI.) . . 156 



XIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Bocage on a new African Coracias 157 



2. Bocage on West-African Birds 157 



3. Campbell on the Nesting of the Orange-wattled Crow 158 



4. Coues's Ornithological Bibliography 158 



5. Desfontaines's Memoire (Reprint) 158 



6. Elliot's Monograph of the Hornbills 159 



7. Finsch on two Pacific Birds 159 



8. Freke on Birds found in Europe and North America . 159 



9. Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia Central!- American a' . 160 



10. Gould's ' Birds of Asia ' 160 



11. Harvie-Brown's ' Ornithological Journal ' . . . .160 



12. Has well's Notes on the Anatomy of Birds . . . .161 



13. Henshaw's Ornithological Report 161 



14. Homey er's ' Journey to Heligoland ' 161 



15. Hutton on. Anas gracilis 162 



16. Kirk on the Red-capped Dotterel 162 



17. Kirk on some curious New-Zealand Birds . . . .162 



18. Legge's ' Birds of Ceylon ' 163 



19. Marsh on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America 164 



20. Oustalet on new Birds from New Guinea . . . .164 



21. Pelzeln's Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 



1878 165 



22. Reichenow and Schalow's ' Compendium ' . . . .165 



23. Rodd's ' Birds of Cornwall ' 166 



24. Salvadori's ' Prodromus,' Part 9 166 



25. Schlegel's ' Museum des Pays-Bas ' 166- 



' 26. Schmaltz on the Fruit-Pigeons of the Genus Ptilopus 167 



27. Schmeltz on the Fauna of the New Hebrides . . .167 



28. Relator's ' Jacamars and Puff- birds ' 167 



29. Smith's Miscellaneous Ornithological Papers . . .168 



30. Steere on the Mammals and Birds of Ann Arbor . .168 



31. Stevenson on the Pomatorhine Skua 168 



32. Stieda on the Bursa Fabricii 168 



