CONTENTS OP VOL. I.— SIXTH SERIES. 



(1889.) 



Number I., January. 



I. Notes on some Birds of the Canary Islands. By E. G. 

 Meade- Waldo 1 



II. Ornithological Notes on the Island of Gran Canaria. By 



H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S 13 



III. On the Genus Platalea, with a Description of a new 

 Species from New Guinea. By W. R. Ogilvie -Grant. 

 (Plate I.) 32 



IV. Notes on Woodpeckers. — No. XV. On three new Ame- 

 rican Species. By Edward Hargitt, F.Z.S 58 



V. On the Breeding of Pvjffinus auduboni in the Island of 

 Barbados. By Colonel H. W. Feilden 60 



VI. On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo. By R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S. &c., Zoological Department, British 

 Museum. With Notes by John Whitehead. (Plates II,-IV.) 63 



VII. Notes on the Birds collected by Dr. G. Radde in the 

 Transcaspian Region. By H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S. (Plate V.) 85 



VIII. An Attempt to Diagnose the Suborders of the Ancient 

 Ardeino-Anserine Assemblage of Birds by the aid of Osteolo- 

 gical Characters alone. By Henry Seebohm 92 



IX. On an apparently undescribed Species of Owl from An- 

 jouan Island, proposed to be called Scops capnodes. By John 

 Henry Gurney 104 



