CONTENTS OF NUMBER VII. (continued). 



63. Fiirbringer on Stringops and lynx 373 



04. Hume and Oates's ' Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds ' . . ) „„. 

 Go. Leverkuhn on Variations in the Coloration of Birds . . | 



66. Merriam's Report for 1888 375 



67. Meyer's Illustrations of Birds' Skeletons j 



68. Modigliani on the Birds of Nias I 376 



69. More's List of Irish Birds j 



70. Nehrling's North-American Birds j 



71. Ridgway on Birds from St. Lucia, the Abrolhos Islands, I 377 



and the Straits of Magellan J 



72. Salvadori on Additions to Papuan Ornithology .... I ,,„.. 



73. Sclater on the Tracheophone Passeres j 



74. Seebohm on the Classification of Birds 379 



75. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Water- Birds . . . . I „ , 



76. Shufeldt on Progress in Avian Anatomy j 



77. Stejneger and Lucas on Pallas's Cormorant j 



78. Tschusi zu Schmidhofen's ' Ornithologisches Jahrbuch' . I 382 



79. Woodford on the Head-hunters of the Solomon Islands . J 



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



Letters from Dr. H. Burmeister ; H. E. Dresser, Esq. ; John J. 

 Dalgleish, Esq. Butorides virescens in Cornwall ; Phylloscopus 

 superciliosus in the Scilly Islands; Turtur orientalis in Great 

 Britain ; Valuable Addition to the National Bird-Collection ; 

 The Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum ; New Bird- 

 books in preparation ; Pelagodroma marina in the Canaries ; 

 Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 

 1890; Obituary— J. H. Gurney 384 



Publications received since the issue of No. 6, Sixth Series, 

 and not noticed in the present number. 



40. The Auk. (Vol. vii. No. 2, 1890.) 



41. Christy. The Birds of Essex. (8vo. Chelmsford, 1890.) 



42. Clarke. The Birds of Jan Mayen Island. (Zoologist, Jan. & Feb., 

 1890.) 



43. Dwight. The Horned Larks of North America. (Auk, vii. p. 138.) 



44. Hartlaub. Leber eine Sammlung Chinesischer Vogel. (Abhandl. 

 naturw. Ver. Bremen, xi.) 



45. Hartert. Zur Ornithologie der indisch-malayischen Gegenden. (Jonrn. 

 f. Ornith. 1889, p. 345.) 



40. ' Ornis.' (Jahrgang iv. Heft 1.) 



47. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. (Band i. Hefte 2-4, 1890.) 



48. Pycraft. A Contribution to the Pterylography of Birds' Wings. (8vo. 

 Leicester, 1890.) 



49. Records of the Australian Museum. (Vol. i. no. 1, 1890.) 



50. Report of the Government Scientific Expedition to Bellenden-Ker Range. 

 (8vo. Brisbane, 1889.) 



51. Ridgway and Forbes. The Ornithology of Illinois. (Royal 8vo. 

 Springfield, 111.) 



52. Shufeldt. Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of the Families 

 of North-American Passeres. (Joum. of Morphol. iii. pi. 81.) 



53. Saufeldt. Notes on the Anatomy of Speotyto cunicidaria Hypogcea. 

 (Journ. of Morphol. iii. p. 115.) 



54. Shufeldt. On the Position of Chamcea in the System. (Journ. of 

 Morphol. iii. p. 475.) 



55. Shufeldt. Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and 

 Sub-arctic Water-Birds. — Part VI. (Journ. Anat. & Physiol, xxiv. p. 169.) 



56. Stejneger. Notes on a third Collection of Birds made in Kauai, 

 Hawaiian Islands, by Valdemar Knudsen. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 377.) 



57. Tschusi zu Schmidhofen. Das Steppenhuhn (Syrrhajites paradoxus, 

 Pall.) in Oesterreich-Ungarn. (Mitth. naturw. Ver. fur Steiermark, 1889.) 



58. Zeledon. Catalogo de las Aves de Costa Rica. (Anales Mus. Nac. Rep. 

 Costa Rica, 1887, p. 103.) 



