CONTENTS OF NUMBER XXIV. [continued). 



Paga 



98. Saunders's ' Manual of British Birds ' | ^^^ 



99. Sclater on the Oligomvodian Passeres j 



100. Sousa on the Birds of St. Thom^ ) 



101. Taczanowski on Caucasian Birds i 490 



lu2. Tegetmeier on Pallas's Sand Grouse j 



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



Letters from Mr. E. L. Layard ; Sir J. W. P. Campbell-Orde ; 

 Mr. F. E, Beddard ; Ur. G. Hartlaub ; and Mr. Hugh R. 

 liabbetts ; Extract from a Letter from Dr. Burmeister to Mr. 

 Sclater. Assumption of Male Plumage by Female Birds. 

 Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 1888. 

 Obituary — Mr. Henry Stevenson 491 



Index 499 



Titlepage, Preface, List of Members, and Contents. 

 General Index to the Fifth Series. 



Publications received since the issue of No. 23, Fifth Series, 



AND NOT noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



65. Allen. On the Structure of Birds in relation to flight, with special 

 reference to recent alleged discoveries in the Mechanism of the Wing. (Traos. 

 N. Y. Acad, of Soi. vol. vii. p. 89.) 



66. Bericht (Erster) iiber die Thatigkeit des Thier- und Pflanzenschutz- 

 Vereins fiir das Herzogthum Coburg. (8vo. Coburg, 1888.) 



67. Berlepsch. Beschreibung eines neuen Colibri und Bemerkungen iiber 

 eine Collection von Vogel-Balgen aus der Umgegend von Sta. Fe de Bogota in 

 Colombia. (Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Ornith. 1837, p. 177.) 



68. Blasius (R.). Die Vogelw^elt der Stadt Braunschweig und ihrer 

 nachsten Unigebung. (Ver. f. Naturw. z. Braunschweig, v. Jahresber. p. 59.) 



69. Blasius (II.). Mergus anatarius, PJimbeck, ein Bastard zwischen 

 Mergus albellus, Linn6, und Glaucion clangula, Linne. (Monatschr. d. deutsch. 

 Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw. xii. no. 14.) 



70. Blasius (W.). Vogel von Gross-Sanghir. (IBraunschweigische An- 

 zeigen, Jahr. 1888, no. 9.) 



71. Blasius (W.). Die Vogel von Palawan. (Ornis, 1888, p. 301.) 



72. Hartlaub. Aus den ornith ologischen Tagebiichern Dr. Emin Pascha's. 

 (J. f. O. 1887, p. 310.) 



73. Hartlaub. Vogel. Skeletiren eines Vogels. (Neumayer's Anleitung 

 IVL wissensch. Beobachtung. auf Reisen. 2 Aufl. Bd. ii. p. 373.) 



74. Jaliresbericht X. (18^5) des Ausschusses fiir Bdobachtungsstationen der 

 Vogel Deutschlands. (J. f. O. 1887, p 337.) 



75. Kempen. Sur une s^rie de Mammiferes et Oiseaux d'Europe pr^sentant 

 des Anomalies ou des Vari6t«5s de Coloration. (Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 

 t, xiii. p. 103.) 



76. Mf.yer and Helm. III. Jahresbericht (1887) der ornith ologischen 

 Beobachttmgstationen im Konigreieh Sachsen. (Abb. u. Ber. d. k. zool, u. 

 anthropol.-ethnograph. Mus. z. Dresden 1888-89.) 



77. Picaglia. Intorno ad una recente iuvasione del Syrrhaptes paradoxus, 

 Dl. (II Panaro, Anno xxvii. Num. 160). 



78. Ramsay. Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at present known to 

 the Author. (Sm. 4to. Sydney, 1888.) 



79. Regalia. Unghie ai diti i. e ii. della Mano in Uccelli italiani. (Pro- 

 cesso Verbale d. Soc. Toscana d. Sci. Nat. 1888, p. 86.) 



80. Salvadori. II Sirratte in Italia nella primavera del 1888. (Boll. d. Mus. 

 d. Zool. e. Anat. Comp. d. R. Univ. d. Torino, vol. iii. no. 47.) 



81. Salvadori. Le date della pubblicazioiie della "Iconografia della Fauna 

 Italica " del Bonaparte. (Boll. d. Mus. d. Zool. e. Anat. Comp. d. R. Univ. d. 

 Torino, vol. iii. no. 48.) 



82. Salvadori and Giglioli. Uccelli raccolti durante il Viaggio della 

 Corvetta '< Vettor Pisani " negli anni 1879-81. (Mem. d. R. Accad. d. Sci. d. 

 Torino, ser. 2, t. xxxix. p. 99.) 



83. Shufeldt. Osteology of Porzann Carolina. (Journ. of Comp. Med. and 

 Surg. July 1838.) 



84. Shufeldt. On the skeleton in the genus Sf.urnella, with osteological 

 notes upon other North American Icterida: and the Corvid(S. (Journ. of Anat. 

 and Phys. vol. xxii. p. 309.) 



85. Turner. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska. (4to. 



