CONTEMTS OF I^UMBKK X. {conhnued). 



Pag 



49. Parker on the Morpliology of Ducks and Auks ... 1 



50. Pleske on the Birds of Pi^evalsk/s Journeys in Central > 28o 



Asia ) 



51. Ridgway on the " Farallon " Rail i „„ > 



52. Scott on the Birds of the Dry Tortu^as ^ ^»o 



53. Sharpe and Wj^att on the Hirundinidce I „□» 



54. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-birds . . . ( '^°' 



55. Smith on the Disappearance of Spka americana . . 1 



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



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



58. Studer on the Birds obtained during the Voyage of the 



' Gazelle ' 289 



59. Thompson on the Systematic Position of Hesperomis. \ 



60. Townsend on Birds collected by the U.S. Fish-Corn- [ 290 



mission S.S. ' Albatross ' ) 



61. Wilson and Evans on Hawaiian Birds 291 



62. Winge on the Birds of Denmark I nqo 



63. Zehntner on the Development of Cypselus melba . . j 



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



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

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

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

 A. G. More, Esq. Munia sharpii; Reappearance of Polyteles 

 a/e.rari(Z;'« ; Irruption of Otis tarda ; The Gatke Collection; New 

 Ornithological Works in Preparation. Obituary — Prof. Poey. 293 



Publications received since the issue of No. 9, Sixth Series, 



AND NOT noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



31. Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Harvard College for 1889-90. (8vo. Cambridge, 1890.) 



32. Beewster. Descriptions of seven supposed new North-American Birds. 

 (Auk, viii. p. 139.) 



33. Christy. A Catalogue of Local Lists of British Birds. (Bvo. London, 

 1891.) 



34. DwiGHT. The Homed Larks of North America. (Auk, vii. p. 138, 

 1890.) 



35. FtJRBRiNGER. Ueber die eystematische Stellung der Hesperornithidae. 

 (Ornith. Monats. Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw. xv. p. 488.) 



30. GooDCHiLD. Notes on Crested Bh-ds of Prey. (Proc. R. Phys. Soc. 

 Edinb. X. p. 202.) 



37. GooDCHiLD. The Cubital Coverts of the Euornithae in Relation to 

 Taxonomy. (Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. x. p. 317.) 



38. Hartert. Vorlautiges uber einige neue Vogelarten. (J. f. O. 1890, 

 p. 154.) 



39. Hartert. Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Museum Senckenbergischen 

 Naturforschenden GeseUschaft in Frankfurt-am-Main. (8vo. Frankfurt-a.-M. 

 1891.) 



40. Hartlaub, Vierte Beitrag zur Ornith ologie der ostlich-aquatorialen 

 Lander und der ostlichen Kiistengebiete Afrikas. (Abh. uaturw. Ver. Bremen, 

 xii. Heftl.) 



41. KoENiG. Ornithologische Forschungsergebnisse einer Reise nach 

 Madeira und den canarischen Inseln. (.T. f. 0. 1890, p. 257.) 



42. Meyer. Partieller Albinismus einer hahnenfedrigen Birkhenne. (Diana, 

 viii. p. 162, 1891.) 



43. Meyer und Helm. V. Jahresbericht (1889) der omithologischen Be- 

 obachtungstationen im Konigreich Sachsen. (Folio, Dresden, 1890.) 



44. Mittheilungen des omithologischen Vereines in Wien, (xiv. Nr, 23 ; 

 XV, Nr. 1-4.) 



45. North. Notes upon the Plumage of the Adult Males in certain Species 

 of the Genus Malurus. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ser. 2, v. p. 505.) 



46. Pelzeln. Geschichte der Saugethier- und Vogel-Sammlung des k.k. 

 naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. (Annalen k.k. naturh. Hofmus. v. Heft 4.) 



47. The Scottish Naturalist. (No. xxxi. 3rd ser,, Jan, 1891.) 



