CONTENTS OF NUMBER, VIll. [continued). 



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



Letters from W. VV. Smith, Esq.; Lt.-Col. E. A. Butler; Heer 

 F. E. Blaauw ; A. II. Everett. Syrrhaptes paradoxus in Cap- 

 tivity. A Tame Cuckoo. New Breeding Birds in the Trondhjeni 

 District; International Ornithological Congress of 1891 ; Breed- 

 ing of Falco babyhmicus ; The Gatke Collection. Obituary — 

 W. K. Parker. J. H. Gurney (Correction of an Error) . . . 462 



Index of Scientific Names 471 



Index of Contents 485 



Titlepage, Preface, List of Members, and Contents. 



Publications received since the issue of No. 7 , Sixth Series, 

 and not noticed in the present number. 



59. Abstract of the Proceedings of the Linnsean Societj' of New York for the 

 Year ending March 7, 1890. 



60. The Auk. (Vol. vii. No. 3.) 



61. Berlepsch u. Leverkukn. Studien iiber einige siidamerikanische 

 Vogel nebst Beschreibungen neuer Arten. (Ornis, vi. p. 1.) 



62. Brusina. Motriocem pticjega Svijeta. Naputak i popis Doniacik ptica. 

 (Glasnik Hrv. Naravoslov. Druztva, v. 1890.) 



63. Feilden. The Deserted Domicile of the Diablotin in Dominica. (Trans. 

 Norf. and Norwich Nat. Soc. v. p. 24.) 



64. Giglioli. Primo Resoconto dei resultati della inchiesta Ornitologica in 

 Italia. Parte seconda. (8vo. Firenze, 1890.) 



65. Hume and Oates. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds. Vols. II. & III. 

 (8vo. London, 1890.) 



66. Leverkuhn. Zur Geschichte des Vogelschutzes in Hessen. (Monatschr. 

 Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw. xv. p. 211.) 



67. Lucas. Catalogue of Skeletons of Birds collected at the Abrolhos Islands, 

 Brazil, the Straits of Magellan, and the Galapagos Islands, in 1887-88. (Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 127.) 



68. Martorelli. Nota Ornitologica sopra alcuni esemplari del Gen. Limosa 

 appartenenti alle specie Limosa lapponica, Linn., e Limosa uropygialis, Gould. 

 (Atti Soc. Ital. sci. nat. xxxiii. 1890.) 



69. Maynard. Das Brullen der amerikanischen Rohrdommel (Botaurus 

 lentiginosus, Steph.). — I. (Monatschr. Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw. 

 xv. p. 242.) 



70. Middendorff. III. Ornithologischer Jahresbericht (1887) aus den Rus- 

 sischen Ostsee-Provinzen. (8vo. Wien, 1890.) 



71. Mittheilungen des omithologischen Vereines in Wien. (xiv. 1890, 

 Nr. 1-14.) 



72. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. (Band i. Hefte 6-8, 1890.) 



73. Ramsay. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Australian Accipitres in 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W. (8vo. Sydney, 1890.) 



74. Ramsay. Catalogue of the Australian Birds in the Australian Museum 

 at Sydney, N.S.W— Part III. Striges. (8vo. Sydney, 1890.) 



75. Ridgway. Further Notes on the Genus Xiphocolaptes of Lesson. (Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 47.) 



76. Salvadori. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale. — I. 

 Collezioni Ornitologische. (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, ix. p. 476.) 



77. Salvadori. II Cypselus affinis in Liguria. (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 

 Genova, ser. 2, ix. p. 549.) 



78. Salvadori. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale. — II. 

 (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, ix. p. 554.) 



79. Schalow. Neue Beitrage zur Vogelfauna von Brandenburg. (J. f. O. 

 1890, p. 1.) x 



80. Seebohm. The Birds of the Japanese Empire. (Royal 8vo, VLondon, 

 1890.) . a ; AT) 



81. Shupeldt. Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and 

 Sub-Arctic Water-Birds. — Part VII. (Journ. Anat. & Physiol, xxiv. p. 543.) 



82. Sibree. Madagascar Ornithology. (8vo. Antananarivo, 1890.) 



83. Stone. Catalogue of the Owls in the Collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1890, p. 124.) 



84. Torrey. Das Brullen der amerikanischen Rohrdommel (Botaurus lenti- 

 ginosus, Steph.). — II. (Monatschr. Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw. xv. p. 62.) 



