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XXI. On the Columbine Genus Macropygia and its Allies. 



By Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. . . . 214 



XXII. On a new Genus of the Order Columbia. By Major 



R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 246 



XXIII. Notices of recont Ornithological Publications : — 



34. Allen on the Genus Elainea 247 



35. Bocage on Birds new to the Island of St. Thomas, 



West Africa 248 



36. Bartlett on Weavers and Finches 248 



37. Chapman on Amazilia ceneo-brunnea 249 



38. Hickson's < Naturalist in North Celobes ' .... 249 



39. Kempon on Pallas's Sand-Grouse in Northern France . 250 



40. Lumholtz's Adventures in Queensland 250 



41. Moyer on rare Paradise-birds 251 



42. Meyer and Helm's Report on the Ornithological Ob- 



serving-Stations for Saxony for 1888 251 



43. Nicholson's Translation of Sundevall's ' Tcntamen ' . 251 



44. Ninni on the Venetian Long -tailed Titmouse . . . 252 



45. Noll on Extinct Birds 252 



46. Oates's ' Birds of British India ' 252 



47. Oates's ' Matabele-land.' (Second Edition.) . . . 255 



48. Pleske's ' Ornithographia Rossica ' 255 



49. Pleske on the Birds of Prjovalski's Journeys in Cen- 



tral Asia 256 



50. Ridgway on the Genus Xipliocolaptes 256 



51. Ridgway on the Genus Sclerurus 257 



52. Ridgway on Birds from Galapagos 257 



53. Salvadori on Additions to Papuan Ornithology . . . 258 



54. Salvadori on Pallas's Sand-Grouse in Italy .... 259 



55. Saunders's ' Manual of British Birds ' 259 



56. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water-Birds . . .260 



57. Shufeldt on the Macrochires ........ 2(i0 



58. Shufeldt on the Herons 261 



59. Smith on the Birds of Lako Brunner District, New 



Zealand 261 



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



Letters from J. H. Gurncy. Esq. ; Dr. G. Hartlaub ; and A. 



