CONTENTS OF NUMBEli IX.— SIXTH SERIES. 



Page 

 1. A Visit to the Blasket Islands and the Skellig Rocks. By 



William H. Turle 1 



II. Extracts from the Letters of Mr. J. Graham Kerr, Naturalist 



to the Filoomayo Expedition 1^^ 



III. Further Notes on the Birds of the Argentine Republic. By 



A. H. Holland. With Remarks by P. L. Sc later . . . 1<> 

 IV. Notes on Buteo {Onyclwtes) soUtarius. By the late John 



Hkxrt GuRNEr 21 



\. Report on Birds from British New Guinea. By C. W. 



.DeVis, M.A . 25 



Vl. On some Birds from South-eastern China, with Descriptions 



of two new Species. By Henry H. Slater. (Plate!.) . 41 

 YII. Description of an apparently new Species of the Genus Si2>hia 



from Borneo. By A. H, Everett, C.M.Z.S 45 



VIII. Descriptions of two new Species of Flycatchers from the Island 



of Negros, Philippines. By E. L.'Moseley. (Plato II.) . 46 

 IX On a rare Species of Lorikeet in the Rothschild Collection. 



By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. (Plate IIL) .48 



X. On the Periods occupied bv Birds in the Incubation of their 



Eggs. By William Evans, F.R S.E 52 



XI. On the Fijian Species of the Genus P<u-h>/cq)hala. By Henry 



Seebohm oo 



XII. Notes on Eurystomns orleatalis. By H. E. Dressek, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 'J9 



XIIJ. Notes on a second Colhsction of Birds made by Mr. W. D. 



dimming at Fao, in the Persian Gulf. By R. Bowpler 



SuARPE, F.L.S., &c.. Zoological Department, British Museum. 103 



XIV. Descriptions of fourteen new Species of Birds discovered by Mr. 



F. J. Jackson in Eastern Africa. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, 



FZ.S., F.L.S 117 



XV. On some new Francolins and a new Hornbill discovered by 

 Mr. F. J. Jackson in l':astern Africa. By W. R. Ogilvie- 



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XVI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Berlepseh and Levorklihn on South-American I'.irds . . I j2,s 



2. Blasi us on new Birds from the Soolo) Inlands. . . . . \ 



3. Blasiua on Birds from Mindanao . I 



4. Brusina on the Birds of ('roatia and Slavonia • 12U 



5. Biittikofer on Birds froai Libt^ria ) 



0. Coues's Handbook of ( )nuthnlo<2y . I'^O 



7. Feilden on the Domicile of the Diabl, tin 1 



8. Giglioli on the Results of the Oruitholofirieal Tnvfsfgation ( ^|y^ 



of Italy , I 



0. Ilartlaub on Emin Pasha's new Birds ) 



10. Holtz on the Irruption of »S;(/r;7^rt;>f(?s of 1888 I lf^., 



1 1 . Hume and Gates's Ne&ts and Eggs of Indian Birds . . • ( 



12. Lucas on Bird-skeletons collected by the s.s. ' Albatross' . I jg.^ 



13. Mavtorelli on some Species of i.'wiosa f 



14. Merriam on the Birds of Arizona l-!4 



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