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GENERAL INDEX. 



Quails, abundance of, in 1885, 1886, 

 210; near Chipping Norton, 1886, 

 101. 



QuiscalinPB (see Sclater, P. L.). 



(^uiscaliis teuuirostris, figured 188+, 

 pi. V. 



Eabbetts, H. E., letter on the capture 

 of Siurus noveboracensis in the Bay of 

 Bii^cay, 1888, 494. 



Radde, E., and Pelzehi, A. v., birds from 

 the Caucasus, noticed 1884, p. 344. 



Kadde, G., news of, 1885, 237; ' Ornis 

 Caucasica,' noticed 1885, 111 ; expe- 

 dition in Transcaspia, 1886, 384; 

 Transcaspian Expedition, 1 887,260; 

 the Fauna of the South-western Cas- 

 pian district, noticed 1886, 521. 



Eagazzi, V., collection of birds from 

 Slioa {see Salvador!, T.). 



Eaggi's Paradise Bird, habits of, 1885, 

 463. 



Rallus jouyi (see Stejneger, L.). 



Eamiige, G. A., in Dominica, 1888, 380. 



Ramsay, E. P., Notes on the Zoology of 

 the Solomon Islands, Part IV., nfjticed 

 1883, 108; the Zoology of Lord Howe's 

 Island, noticed 1883, 108 ; the eggs of 

 five species of Fijian Birds, noticed 

 1883, 108; Australian Oology, Parti., 

 noticed 1883, 108; two new Birds 

 from the Solomon Islands, noticed 

 1883, 219 ; the type specimen of Car- 

 pophaga fiuschi, noticed 1883, 380; 

 contributions to the Zoology of New 

 Guinea, noticed 1S84, 210; a new 

 Collyriocincla, noticed 1885, 90 ; the 

 birds of Mount Astrolabe, noticed 

 1886,90. 



Ramsay, E. G. Wardlaw-, Catalogue of 

 the Tweeddale collections, 1884, 123 ; 

 contributions to the ornithology of 

 the Philippine Islands — No. 1, on 

 two collections of birds from tiie vi- 

 cinity of Manilla, 18 84, 330; No. 2, 

 on additional collections of bird.s, 

 1886, 155. 



•■Eandom notes on Natural History,' 

 vol. iii. no. 2, noticed 1886, 373. 



RapaccB diurnse and Rapaces nocturna;, 

 geographical distribution of the, in 

 Russia {see Menzbier, M.). 



Ratitffi, claws ini the wings of (sec 

 Parker, W. K.). 



Rcctes, note on the genus {see Sharpe, 



R. B.). 

 Reeve's Pheasant at home, 1886, 382. 

 Regulus calendula, plumage of {see 

 Beckham, C. W.). 



Reichenow, A., foreign cage-birds, no- 

 ticed, parts 5-10, 1883, 381 ; part 11. 



1885, 112; birds of Zoological Gar- 

 dens, noticed 1884, 108; birds of 

 Masai-Land {see Fischer, G. A., and 

 Eeichenow, A.). 

 Eeid, S. G., letter on the nesting of 

 Balearica chrysopelargus and Grus 

 paradisea, 1883, 225; letter on an 

 error in his paper on Saxicola mon- 

 ticola, 1884, 466; winter notes from 

 Morocco, 1885, 241 ; the birds of 

 Bermuda, noticed 1885, 447; notes 

 on the birds of Teneriife, 1887, 424, 

 and 1 888, 73; letter on Mr. Seebohm's 

 paper on the birds of Natal {sre But- 

 ler, E. A., Feilden, H. W., and Reid, 

 S. G.) ; on variations in plumage of 

 Saxicola monticola {sec Butler, E. A., 

 Feilden, H. W., and Reid, S. G.). 

 Reinhardt, J. T., obituiiry notices of, 



1883, 131,384. 



Reischek, A., Zoological Researches 



made on the Chicken Islands, noticed 



1883, 109r New-Zealand Ornithology, 



noticed 1886, 90. 



Report of the Committee for Stations of 



Observation of the Birds of Germany, 



noticed 1883, 109; of the German 



Committee on the Migration of Birds, 



No. VII, noticed 1884, 344; of the 



Austro-Hungarian Committee ou the 



Migration of Birds, noticed 1884, 345. 



Revoil, G., Birds from Somali-land {see 



O'ustalet, E.). 

 Reyes, V., the birds of Spain, Portugal, 

 and the Balearic Islands, noticed 

 1886, 521. 

 Rhamphocoenus, the genus {see Sclater, 



P. L.). 

 Ridgway, R., Notes on some Costarican 

 Birds, noticed 1883, 110; a new Fly- 

 catdier and a supposed new Petrei 

 from the Sandwich Islands, noticed 

 1S83, 110 ; a new Owl from Portorico, 

 noticed 1883,110; two new Thrushes 

 from the United States, noticed 1883, 

 111 ; two recent additions to the 

 North-American Bird fauna, noticed 

 1883, 111 ; description of several new 

 races of American Birds, noticed 1883, 

 111 ; the genera Harporhynchus and 

 Methriopterus with a description of 

 a new Genus of Miminte, noticed 1883, 

 111 ; the Tree-creepers (Certhia) of 

 Europe and North America, noticed 

 1883,112; some new North-American 

 Birds, noticed 1883, 219; Catalogue 

 of the Birds of Costa Rica, noticed 

 1 8 8 3 , 38 1 ; a new Warbler I'rom Santa 

 Lucia, noticed 1883, 382; a supposed 

 new Plover from Chili, noticed 1S83, 

 382; the genu.*; Tantalus, noticed 



