CONTENTS OP NUMBER XVII.— EOURTH SERIES. 



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 I. On tlie Contributions to the Anatomy and Classification of 

 Birds made by the^ate Prof. Garrod, P.R.S. By W. A. 

 Forbes, B.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 



Prosector to the Zoological Society of London 1 



II. Descriptions of two new Species of Birds. By Capt. R. G. 



Waedlaw Eamsat, F.Z.S., &c., 67th Eegiraent. (Plate I.) . 32 



III. On the Birds of Gilgit. By Major John Biddulph .... 35 



IV. Ornithological Letters from the Pacific. — Nos. V. & VI. By 



Otto Fiksch, Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U., &c 102 



V. On new Species of East- African Birds. By Capt. G. Shelley, 



(Plate IL) 115 



VI. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Museum ' 



by R. Bowdler Sharije (1874). By J. H. Gurnet . . .118 

 VII. A List of Birds collected at or near Mombasa, East Africa. 



By J. H. GuRNEY 124 



VIII. Descriptions of two new Species of Wrens from Ecuador. By 



OsBERT Salvia, M.A., F.R.S. (Plate III.) 129 



IX. On an apparently new Parrot of the Genus Conurus. By P. 



L. ScLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. (Plate IV.) 130 



X. Notes on the Avifauna of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. 

 By Edgar L. Layard, C.M.G., F.Z.S., &c., H.B.M. Consul, 

 and E. Leopold C. Layard, Vice-Cousul at Noumea. AVith 

 Remarks by the Rev. Canon Tristram, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., 



&c. (Plate V.) 132 



XI. List of Birds collected by Mr. H. 0. 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 VI.) . . . 156 

 XIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Bocage ou a new African Coracias ^'^^J^Ulii? 



2. Bocage on West- African Birds -iBt 



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



4. Ooues's Oruithological Bibliography vl'58 



6. Desfontaines's M6moire (Reprint) j 



6. Elliot's Monograph of the Hornbills j 



7. Finsch on two Pacific Birds \ 159 



8. Freke on Birds found iu Europe and North America . ) 



9. Godman and Salvin's 'Biologia Ce|i>fth-Americana ' . I 



10. Goidd's' Birds of Asia'. . ,^ /^^ [ 160 



11. Harvie-Brown's ' OrnithologicaljQurjM^ ) 



12. Haswell's Notes on the Anato^lMMPPs j 



13. Henshaw's Ornithological Report \ 161 



14. Homeyer's ' Journey to Heligoland ' ) 



16. Hutton on Anas (jracilis j 



16. Kirk on the Red-capped Dotterel > 102 



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



18. Legge's ' Birds of Ceylon ' 163 



19. Marsh on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America 



20. Oustalet on new Birds from New Guinea f 



21. Pelzeln's Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 1878 I i pc 



22. Reichenow and Schalow's ' Compendium ' j 



23. Rodd's ' Birds of Cornwall ' 



24. Salvadori's ' Prodromus,' Part 9 \ 106 



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



26. Schmeltz on the Fruit-Pigeons of the Genus Ptilopm . 



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



28. Sclater's ' Jacamars and Putf-birds ' J 



29. Smith's Miscellaneous Ornithological Papers . . . ""l 



30. Steere on the Mammals and Birds of Ann Arbor . . I -i po 



31. Stevenson on the Pomatorhine Skua f 



32. Stieda on the Bursa Fabricii J 



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