16. Middendoiff on the Birds of the Russian Baltic Provinces. J *^ 



16. Munay on Indian Game Birds [ 135 



17. Radde on the Birds of the Caucasus • . I 



18. Kamsay on the Birds in the Australian Museum . . ! . ( ^^^ 



19. Ridgway on some Species of Xiphoco^aptes ....!/ 



20. Salvadori on Birds collected by Loria \ ' \ 1^7 



21. Salvadori on the Occurrence of Ct/pselm affinis in' Italy '. I 



22. Sandager on the Birds of the Mokohinou Islands . . . ! 1 138 



23. Schalow on the Avifauna of Brandenburo- . . . . . \\ 



24. Seebohm on the Birds of the Japanese Empire . . . ! . 131) 



25. Sharpe on the Birds of Fernando Noronha . . .' . . .' 140 



26. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-birds ' ) 



27. Shufeldt's Myology of the Raven .'.'.*.'[ ^"*^ 



28. Spelman on a Collection of British Birds . . . . , i 



29. Stone on the Owls in the Collection of the Academy of ( 142 



Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . . | 



80. Tschusi zu SchmidhofFen's ' Oruithologisches Jahrbiich*' .' . 143 

 XVII. Letters, Extracts, Noticet., &c. : — 



Letters from K. H, Bennett, Esq.; Capt. J. B. Young; John 

 Cordeaux, Esq. ; Lt.-Col. E. A. Butler ; Count T. Salvadori • 

 F. H. Salvin, Esq. ; and Heer F. E. Blaauw. The Spotted^ 

 billed Pelican (Pekcanus manillensis) ; Phadanus humia from 



a new Locality; New or Rare British Birds, 



John 



V i^ocaiity; jNew or Rare Bntish Birds, Obituary- 

 Hancock 



143 



Publications received since the issue of No. 8, Sixth Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



. 1. The Auk. (Vol. vii. No. 4.) 



2. Bericht liber das Militar-Brieftaubenwesen, 1881-89. (Jahresb. ii d 

 VerJinder. u. Fortsch. im Militarwesen, xvi.) 



3. Blasius. Die Vogel von Gross-Sanghir. (Ornis, iv. p. 627.) 



4. Chapman. On a Collection of Birds made by Mr. Clark P. Streator in 

 British Columbia. (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 123.) 



5. Clarke. On a Collection of Birds from Fort Churchill, Hudson's Bay 

 (The Auk, 1890, p. 319.) •' 



6. Dubois. Compte rendu des observations ornitholoeriq ues faitee en Belcio ue 

 pendant les ann^es 1887 a 1889. (Ornis, 1890.) ^ 



7. Gbieg. Lagopus urogallo-albus. Ein neuer Moorschneehuhn-Bastard. 

 (Bergens Mus. Aarsberetning, 1889.) 



8. Hallgrimsson. Ses Travaux Zoologiques. Traduction par L. Olohe- 

 (ialliard. (8vo. Copenhague, 1890.) ^ ^ 



9. Hartebt. Ornithologische Notizen. (J. f. 0. 1890, p. 100.) 



10. Heine und Reichenow. Nomenclator Musei Heineani Omitholoffici 

 pp. 289-373. (8vo. Berlin, 1890.) uiuiugiti. 



1 1 . Jameson. Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Exnedi- 

 tion. (8vo. London, 1890.) ^ 



12. LEVERKtJHN. Ueber Farbenvarietaten bei Voffek IV rJ f O 1890 

 p. 168.) . V • • • -i"*^, 



13. LEVERKtJHN. Ueber eine alte pommersche Vogelfauna. (Rohl, Zeitsch. 

 f. Ornith. xiv. 1890.) 



14. Meyer. Pekcamts molinae. Gray. (J, f. O. 1890, p. 165.) 



15. Mittheilungen des omithologischen Vereines in 'Wien. (xiv. (1890) Nr. 

 15—22.) 



16. North. Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds found 

 breeding in Australia and Tasmania. (8vo. Sydney, 1889.) 



17. Olphe-Galliard. Sur 1' Utility des Oiseaux. (8vo'. Gap, 1890) 



18. Oruithologisches Jahrbuch. (Baud i, Hefte 9-12.) 



19. Palmer. Notes on the Birds observed during the Cruise of the United 

 States Fish Commission Schooner ' Grampus ' in the Summer of 1887 (Proc 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 249.) ' ^ 



. ^^- -^o^^^^- 0"iitbographia Rossica. Band ii. Lief. 3. (4to. St P^ters- 

 bourg, 1890.) 



21. Rii>gway Observations on the Farallon Rail {Porzana jamaicemia co- 

 iumtculus, Band). (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 309.) 



22. Scott. On Birds observed at the Dry Tortugas. Florida dminff narti 

 of March and April, 1890. (The Auk, vu. p. 301.) ^ ' ^ ^ 



