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



Letters from Mr. J. H. Gurney, Mr. W. Davison, the Rev. 

 Canon H. B. Tristram, and the Rev. H. A. Maepherson ; The 

 Turati Collection ; The Breeding -habits of Flamingoes ; The 

 B.M. Catalogue of Birds : Sale of a Great Auk's Egg .... 145 



XUMBER XXIL, April. 



XIII. Notes on Woodpeckers. — Xo. XIV. On the Genus Ge- 

 einns. By Edavard Hargitt, F.Z.S 153 



XIV. On a Collection of Birds from the Island of Palawan. 



By R. BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Plates III., IV.) 193 



XV. The Polar Origin of Life considered in its bearing on 

 the Distribution and Migration of Birds. — Part II. By H. 



B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S 204 



XVI. Xote on Long-faced Birds. By W. K. Pakker, F.R.S. 217 



XVII. Xotes on the Birds of Cashmere and the Dras District. 



By Lieut. W. Wilfrid Cokdeaux (Queen's Bays) 218 



XVIII. On the occasional Assumption of the Male Plumage 



by Female Birds. By J. H. Gurnet, Jun 226 



XIX. Further Xotes on Calyptomena whiteJieacU. By R. 

 BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Plate V.) 231 



XX. Further Notes on the Birds of the Loo-choo Islands. 



By Henry Seebohm 232 



XXI. On the Arctic Form of the Nutcracker, Nucifraga 

 ccrn/ocatactes. By Henry Seebohm 236 



XXIL 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.R.S., &c 241 



XXIII. Notes on a small Collection of Birds from Newala, 

 East Africa. By H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S 265 



XXIV. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



36. Adamson's ' Illustrations of Birds ' 267 



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