CONTENTS OP NUMBER XXI.— EIETH SERIES. 



Page 

 I. Notes on "Woodpeckers. — No. XIV. On the Genus Gecinus. 



By Edwaed Haegitt, F.Z.S 1 



II. Notes on the Birds of New Zealand. By T. W. Kirk, of the 



Geological Survey Department 42 



III. On the Hornbills of the Ethiopian Eegion. By Captain G. 



E. Shelley, F.Z.S 47 



IV. On the Birds of Bhamo, Upper Burmah. By Eugene W. 



Gates, F.Z.S. (Plate I.) 70 



V. Notes on the Birds of Teneriffe. By Capt. Savile G. Reid, 



E.E. (Concluded from vol. v. page 435.) 73 



VI. On the Genus Cyclorhis, Swains. By Hans von Beelepsch . S3 

 VII. Remarks on the Acanthizce of Tasmania. By Colonel AV. 



V. Legge, R.A., F.Z.S 93 



VIII. Ornithological Notes of a Tour in Cyprus in 1887. By Dr. F. 

 H. H. Guillemard, M.A., F.Z.S. With a Preface by 



Lord Lilfoed. (Plate II.) 94 



IX. On the presence of Claws in the Wings of the Ratitse. By 



W. K. Parker, F.R.S 124 



X. Descriptions of two new Species of Birds from Bogota, 



Colombia. By Hans von Beelepsch 128 



XI. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Anderson on the Birds of the Mergui Archipelago ... I i qi 



2. Berlepsch on the Birds of Paraguay ( 



3. Blasius on the Birds of Celfebes i T^o 



4. Biyaut on the Ornithology of Guadalupe Island . . . . j 



6. BuUer's ' Birds of New Zealand ' 133 



6. Carazzi on the Birds of Spezia J 



7. Hartert on the Birds of Prussia t 1 34 



8. ' Indian Annals aud Magazine of Natural Science ' . . . T 



9. Lucas on the Osteologj^ of Nothura I 



10. Meyer on the Capercaillie and Black Grouse 1 



11. Milne-Edwards and Oustalet on the Birds of Grand Comoro '> 135 



Island ) 



1 2. Nazarow on the Zoology of the Kirghiz Steppes . . . . i 



13. Nicholson on the Birds of the Manchester District . . . > 136 



14. ' Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society's Transactions . 1 



15. Pelzeln and Madarasz on the Pipridse i 1 S" 



16. Ridgway's Manual of North-American Birds | 



17. Ridgway on a new Cotinrja i l <^Q 



18. Ridgway on a new Spindalis | 



19. Ridgway on the female of Carpodectes antonvs ....') 



20. Ridgway on a new Porzana 



21. Ridgway on Ardea wuerdemanni )■ 140 



22. Ridgway on an Arizouan Trogon | 



23. Ridgway on a new Deudi-ocolaptine Bird J 



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