CONTENTS OP NUMBER XXII.— EIETH SERIES. 



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XIII. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. -XIV. On the Genus Gecinus. 



By Edward Hargitt, F.Z.S 153 



XIV. On a CoUectiou 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. Note on Long-faced Birds. By W. K. Parker, -F.R.S. . . 217 



XVII. Notes on the Birds of Cashmere and the Dras District. By 



Lieut. W. Wilfrid Cordeaux (Queen's Bays) . . . .218 



XVIII. On the occasional Assumption of the Male Plumage by 



Female Birds. By J. H, Gtjrney, Jun 226 



XIX. Further Notes on Cnlyptonuna whiteheadi. 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, Nucifmga caryo- 



catactes. By Henry Seebohm 236 



XXII. 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 ' I ^,.y 



37. ' The Auk ' \ -"^^ 



38. Biichner on the Birds of the St. Petersburg District .... 269 



39. Emerson on the Birds of Southern Califoruia ) 



40. Ernst on the Birds of the Caracas Museum > 270 



41. Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia CentraU-Americana ' . . | 



42. Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea' 271 



43. Gurney on the House-Sparrow ) 



44. Harvie-Brown and Buckley on the Bu'ds of Sutherland and > 272 



Caithness ) 



45. Linnean Society of New South Wales (Proceedings of ) . . 274 



46. Menzbier on the Osteology of the Penguins 275 



47. Merriam on the Misdeeds of the British House-Sparrow , . 276 



48. Montlezun on Bernicle Geese 1 



49. ' Ornis ' I 277 



50. Palmen on Siberian Birds ) 



51. Salvador! on Birds frooi Upper Burmah I g-rg 



52. Salvadori on Birds from Tenasserim ( 



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