CONTENTS OP NUMBER XVIII.— FOURTH SERIES. 



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 XV. Notes on the Avifauna of Italy. By Henex Hillter Gi- 

 GLiOLi, Sc.D., C.M.Z.S., F.M.B.O.U., Professor of Zoology 

 and Comparative A natomy of Vertebrates in the K. Istituto 

 di Studii Superiori, Plorence 181 



XVI. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. I. On the PicuJets of the Old 



World. By Edwaed Hargitt. (Plate VII.) . . . .222 



XVII. On some necessary Changes in the Nomenclature of South- 

 American Birds. By Hans, Graf von Beelepsch . . . 239 



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



(Pleasant Island). By 0. Finsch, Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U., &c. 245 



XIX. Notes on a Collection of Birds from the Marquesas Islands. 



By H. B. Teisiram, F.K.S 249 



XX. On the proper Generic Designation of the European Wood- 

 peckers. By Henry T. Whaeton, M.A., F.Z.S. . . .253 



XXI. Notes on some Hawks of the Subgenera Cooperastur and 



Urospizias. By John Henbt Gurnet. (Plate VIII.) . 258 



XXII. Descriptions of some new Species of South- American Birds 

 of the Families Tyrannidce and Formicariidce. By P. L. 

 ScLATEE and Osbeet Salvin. (Plate IX.) 267 



XXIII. Notes on a ' Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Mu- 



seum' by K. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. Gtjeney 271 



XXIV. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



33. Agassiz's Report on the Museum of Comparative 



Zoology . ._ 279 



34. Bocage on the Birds of Zambesia ) jjq^ 



35. Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club . . . . ( '^°" 



36. Burbridge's ' Gardens of the Sun ' J not 



37. Cory's ' Beautiful and Curious Birds ' f ^"-^ 



38. D'Albertis's 'New Guinea' 282 



39. Fischer and Reichenow on Birds from East Africa. . ""1 



40. GigHoli on Fish-eating Birds in Italy [ ooo 



41. Hartlaub on new African Birds ^.dos 



42. Harting on Hawks and Hawking J 



43. Lawrence on a new Chri/sotis 'I 



44. Nehring on Prehistoric Bone-deposits [ „„ . 



45. Reinhardt on Loxia leueoptera r^°* 



46. Reinhardt on Lanius major J 



47. Seebohm's ' Siberia in Europe ' 285 



48. Seebohm on the Nesting of the Spoonbill j 



49. Sharpe on new Birds from New Guinea i 286 



50. Sharpe on two new Kingfishers ) 



XXV. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letter from Prof. Salvador! ; Obituary — Mr. John Gould, 

 Mr. E. R. Alston, Mons. E. Mulsant, and Mr. C. E. Lawson 286 



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