CONTENTS. 



52. Scott on the Birds of the Dry Tortugas 280 



53. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidce 287 



54. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-birds . . .287 

 65. Smith on the Disappearance of Spiza americana . . 288 



56. Stevenson and Southwell's ' Birds of Norfolk ' . . .288 



57. Stone on Birds collected in Yucatan and S. Mexico . 288 



58. Studer on the Birds obtained during the Voyage of 



the ' Gazelle ' 289 



59. Thompson on the Systematic Position of Hesperornis . 290 



60. Townsend on Birds collected by the U.S. Fish-Com- 



mission S.S. ' Albatross ' 290 



61. Wilson and Evans on Hawaiian Birds 291 



62. Winge on the Birds of Denmark 292 



63. Zehntner on the Development of Gi/pselus melba . . 292 



XXYIII. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. : — 



Letters from Dr. A. B. Meyer ; Sir J. W. P. Campbell Orde ; 



Dr. Ernst Hartert ; Herr Tschusi zu SchmidhofEen ; J. H. 



Gurney, Esq. ; Prof. H. H. Giglioli ; Chas. A. Payton, Esq. ; 



A. G. More, Esq. Munia sharpii ; Reappearance of Poh/teles 



alexandrce ; Irruption of Otis tarda ; The Gatke Collection ; 



New Ornithological Works in Preparation. Obituary — Prof. 



Poey 293 



Number XI., July. 



XXIX. Ornithological Results of an Expedition to the 

 Philippine Islands in 1887 and 1888. By J. B. Steere, Ph.D. 

 (Plates VIL, VIII.) 301 



XXX. On the Birds of the Lower Yangtse Basin. — Part I. 



By F. W. SxrAN, F.Z.S. 316 



XXXI. Notes on some of the rarer Western Palaearetic 

 Birds. By H. E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ." 360 



XXXII. On a Collection of Birds from Erzeroom. By 



H. E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S 364 



