CONTENTS OF NUMBEE V.— SIXTH SERIES. 



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 I. On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. With Notes by John 

 Whitehead. — Part V 1 



II. On the supposed Occurrence of Stri.v parvissima, Ellman, 



in New Zealand. By W. W T . Smith 24 



III. On the Coloration of the Young in the Psitfcacine Genus 



Edectus. By Dr. A. B. Meier. (Plate I.) .... 26 



IV. An Attempt to Diagnose the Pico-Passerine Group of 



Birds and the Suborders of which it consists. By 

 Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S 29 



V. Notes on the Birds of Palawan. Bv John Whitehead. 



(Plate II.) " 38 



VI. On the Alimentary Canal of the Martineta Tinamou 

 ( Calodromas elegans). By Frank E. Beddard, M.A., 

 Prosector to the Zoological Society of London, Lecturer 

 on Biology at Guy's Hospital 61 



VII. Notes on the Island of Palma in the Canary Group. By 



H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S. (Plate III.) .... 67 



VIII. Remarks on the Fifth Cubital Remex of the Wing in the 



Carinat*. By P. L. Sclater, Ph.D., F.ll.S., &c. . . 77 

 IX. A List of the Birds of the Islands of the Coast of Yucatan 

 and of the Bay of Honduras. By Osbert Salvin, 

 M.A., F.ll.S. &c 84 



X. On the Birds of the Bonin Islands. By Henry Seebohm, 



F.Z.S 95 



XI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1 . Aitcliison on the Zoology of the Afghan Border 108 



2. Allen on the Species of Cyclorhis 109 



3. Allen on new South-American Birds I fl 



4. Aplin on the Birds of Oxfordshire ^ 110 



5. Berlepsch on new Neotropical Birds j 



G. Berlepsch on Birds from Brazil and North Peru . . . . ( 



7. Berlepsch's Notes on Neotropical Birds ) 



8. Biittikofer ou a new Gallinule (no 



9. Biittikofer on Birds from South-western Africa . . . . ( 



10. Chapman on a new Humming-bird ) 



11. Chapman on the Genus Xiphorhynchus ) 



12. Palgleish on Nests and Eggs from Paraguay \ 



13. Etheridge on the Birds of Lord Howe Island ... .1 



14. Giglioli's First Report on the Results of the Ornithological 1 114 



Investigation of Italy • • I 



15. Leverkulm on the Legendary History of the Hoopoe . . . 115 



16. Leverkuhn on Variations in the Coloration of Birda . . . 116 



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