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 XIV. Letters, Extracts, Announcements, &c. : — 

 Letters from Dr. A. B. Meyer, E. L. Layard (2), H. H. 

 Johnston, W. A. Forbes, and Dr. H. B. Tristram ; Obituary — 

 Mr. T. C. Eyton ; The Eange of Porphyrio cceruleus ; Prejeval- 

 sky's last Expedition ; The new Otidipliaps ; Note on Chhro- 

 phonia cyanodorsalis ; The Birds of Socotra ; Works in pre- 

 paration ; Expeditions in progress and projected 169 



Number XVIII., April. 



XV. Notes on the Avifauna of Italy. By Henry Hillter 

 GiGLioLi, Sc.D., C.M.Z.S., Professor of Zoology and Comparative 

 Anatomy of Vertebrates in the R. Istituto di Studii Superiori, 

 Florence 181 



XVI. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. I. On the Piculets of the 

 Old World. By Edward Hargitt. (Plate VII.) .... 222 



XVII. On the necessary Changes in the Nomenclature of 

 South-American Birds. By Hans, Graf von Berlepsch . . 239 



XVIII. Ornithological Letters from the Pacific. — No. VII. 

 Nawodo (Pleasant Island). By 0. Finsch, Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U., 



&c 24.^) 



XIX. Notes on a Collection of Birds from the Marquesas 

 Islands. By H. B. Tristram, F.P.S 249 



XX. On the proper Generic Designation of the European 

 Woodpeckers. By Henry T, Wharton, M.A., F.Z.S. . . . 2.5:3 



XXI. Notes on some Hawks of the Subgenera Cooperaxtur 

 and Urospizias. By John Henry Gtjrsey. (Plate VIII.) . 258 



XXII. Descriptions of some new Species of South- American 

 Birds of the Families Tijrannidce and Formicariidce. By P. L. 

 SciATER and Osbert Sala'in. (Plate IX,) 267 



XXIII. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 

 British Museum' by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 

 Gukney 271 



XXIV. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 

 33. Agassiz's Report on the Museum of Comparative 



Zoology 279 



