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:ONTENTS OF NUMBER XXIII. {continued). 



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72. Mansel-Pleydell on tlie Birds of Dorsetshire 3G6 



73. Nehrkorn ou bis Collection of Eggs 1 



74. Pelzelu and Lorenz on types in the Vienna Museum . . > 367 

 76. Eidgway on the Species of Phryr/ilus | 



76. Salvador! on a new Hemi.rus I „„„ 



77. Salvador! on the Caspian Plover in Italy \ 



78. Seebohm on the Distribution of the Limicolfe 369 



79. Shufeldt on some Birds' Sterna and Skulls 1 o-,, 



80. Smith on the Birds of Wiltshire \ '^'^ 



81. Sousa on two new Birds from Angola j ot-i 



82. Sousa on the Birds of Angola ( ' 



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



Letters from Prof. W. Blasius ; Dr. J. v. Madarasz ; Prof. R. 

 CoUett ; Mr. H. E. Dresser ; Mr. C. S. Millard ; Mr. R. Lloyd 

 Patterson ; Mr. W. A. Sauford ; and ]\[r. F. E. Blaauw. Notes 

 on the Breeding of the Hoatzin ; the new Irruption of Syrrhaptes 

 paradoxus. News of Bird-collectors in Foreign Parts. Obit- 

 uary — Mr. H. Pryer and M. M. N. Bogdanow. News of 

 Emin Pasha 372 



Publications received since the issue of No. 22, Fifth Series, 

 and not noticed in the present number. 



45. ' The Audubon Magazine.' (Vol. i. no. 12, ii. no. 1.) 



46. ' The Auk.' (Vol. v. no. 2.) 



47. Baird. Proceedings at a meeting commemorative of the Life and 

 Scientilic Work of Spencer FuUerton Baird. (8vo. 1888.) 



48. Baeboza du Bocage. Sur un oiseau nouveau de St. Thome de la 

 Fam. " Fringillidfe." (Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, no. xlvii. p. 148.) 



49. BuTTiKOFER. Zoological Researches in Liberia : a List of Birds collected 

 by the author and Mr. F. X. Stampfli. (Notes Leyden Mus. x. p. 59.) 



50. Chapman. Observations on the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. (' The 

 Auk,' vol. V. p. 37.) 



51. Dubois. Compte Rendu des Observations Ornithologiques faites en 

 Belgique pendant I'Annee 1886. (Bull. Mus. R. d'hist. nat. Belg. v. p. 99.) 



62. GiGLioLi. Note intorno agli Animali vertebrati raccolti dal Conte 

 Augusto Boutourline e dal Dr. L. Traversi ad Assab e nello Scioa negli anni 

 1884-87. (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vi. p. 5.) 



53. Irby. British Birds : Key List. (8vo. London, 1888.) 



54. Menzbier. Qiuvres posthumes de M. le Dr. N. A. Sewertzow. Fasc. ii. 

 (Nouv. M^m. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, xv. livr. 5.) 



55. Meyer and Helm. II. Jahresbericht (1886) der ornithologischen 

 Beobachtungsstatiouen im Konigreich Sachsen. (8vo. Dresden, 1887. ) 



56. Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (Jahrg. xii. nos. l-o, 

 1888.) 



57. Ornis. (Jahrg. iii. Heft, iv., Jahrg. iv. Heft i.) 



58. Pelzf.ln and Lorenz. Typen der ornithologischen Sammlung des k. k. 

 naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Theil IV. (Ann. k. k. naturh. Hofmus. Wien, 

 iii. p. 37.) 



59. Ramsay. Description of a new Species of Epimachus, from the Astrolabe 

 Range, S.E. New Guinea. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ser. 2, ii. p. 239.) 



60. Report (First) on the Collection of Birds in the Colombo Museum. (8vo. 

 1887.) 



61. Salvador!. Catalogo di una CoUezione di Uccelli dello Scioa fatta dal 

 Dott. Vincenzo Ragazzi negli anni 1884-86. (8vo. 1888.) 



62. Shufeldt. Observations on the Pterjdosis of certain Picidce. (' The 

 Auk,' V. p. 212.) 



63. Sousa. Enumera^ao das Aves conhecidas da Ilha de S. Thome, seguida 

 da lista das que existem d'esta Ilha no Museu de Lisboa. (Jorn. Sci. Math. 

 Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, no. xlvii. p. 151.) 



64. Taczanowski. Contributions a la Faune ornithologique du Caucase. 

 (Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, t. xii.) 



