INDEX or CONTENTS. 



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Menzbier, M. A., Severtzow's ' Ornitho- 

 logy of Turkestan,' noticed, 388. 

 Mergus anatarius {see Blasius, R.). 

 Merriam, C. H., rejjort of the Ornithol- 

 ogist of the U.S. Department of Ag- 

 riculture, noticed, 124 ; migration in 

 the Mississippi Valley, noticed, 383. 



Mexico, new birds from (see Brewster, 

 W.) ; note on the birds of (see Salvin, 

 O., and Godman, F. D.). 



Meyer, A. B., Pallas's Sand-Grouse in 

 Bulgaria, noticed, 248. 



Meyer, A. B., and Helm, F., report on 

 the ornithological stations of Saxony, 

 noticed, 120. 



MiddeadorfF, E. v., report on the birds 

 of the Russian Eastern Provinces, 

 noticed, 388. 



Migration of birds, British Association 

 Report on, noticed, 560; in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley {see Cooke, W. W.). 



Milne- Rdwards, A., and Oustalet, E., 

 birds of the Comoro Islands, noticed, 

 389. 



Mississippi Valley, migration in the {see 

 Cooke, W. W.). 



Mqjsisovics, A. v., zoo-geography of 

 South Hungary, noticed, 6()3. 



Morocco, Bustard-hawking in, 40.5. 



Miiller, A., on an instance of a Cuckoo 

 hatching its own eggs, 219. 



Murghab, abundance of Phasianus prin- 

 cipalis on the Upper, 584. 



Nelson, E. W., report on the birds of 

 Alaska, noticed, 248. 



Newfoundland, blackgame in, 261. 



New Guinea, a new species of Platalea 

 from {see Ogilvie-Grant, W. R.) ; 

 'Birds of New Guinea' {see Gould, J.). 



Newon, A., letter on the use of the fore 

 limbs of birds as instruments of pro- 

 gression, 577. 



Newton, E , address to the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Naturalists' Society, noticed, 

 121. 



Newton's Bower-bird, habits of, 581. 



' New Zealand,' ' Birds of ' {see Buller, 

 W. L.) ; notes on some birds of {see 

 Kirk, T. W.). 



Njctea scandiaca in Ireland {see Patter- 

 son, R. L.). 



Gates, E. W., on the European Cuckoo 



and its Indian allies, 355. 

 QEstrelata sandwichensis {see Ridgway, 



R.). 

 Ogilvie-Grant, W. R., on the genus Pls/- 



talea, with a description of a new 



species from New Guinea, 32 ; on the 



genus Turnix, 446. 



Opisthocomug cristatus, anatomy of {see 

 Beddard, F. E.). 



Ornithological works in course of publi- 

 cation, 405. 



Orthnocichla whiteheadi, figured, pi. xii. 



Osteology of Porzana Carolina ; of Arctic 

 and Sub-arctic water-birds ; of Stur- 

 nella and other Icterida; and the Cor- 

 vidae ; of Circus hudsonius ; of the 

 N. American Anseres {see Shufeldt, 

 R. W.) ; of the Thrushes, MiminiB, 

 and W rens {see Lucas, F. A.). 



Oustalet, E., birds of the Comoro Islands 

 {see Milne-Edwards, A., and Oustalet, 

 E.). 



Owen Stanley Peak, attempt to reach 

 the {see Forbes, H. O.). 



Page, Capt., expedition to the Rio de la 



Plata, 402. 

 Palawan, Platen's birds of {see Blasius, 



W.). 

 Pallas's Sand- Grouse {see Syrrhaptea 



paradoxus). 

 Parker, W. K., on the "Man us" of 



Pbcjenicopterus, 183. 

 Parrots {see Marshall, W.). 

 Parus palmensis, figured, pi. xvi. 

 Patterson, R. L., letter on the occurrence 



of Syrrhaptes paradoxus and Harelda 



glacialis in Ireland, 137 ; letter on the 



occurrence of tiie Snowj' Owl (Nyctea 



scandiaca) in Ireland, 2()0 ; letter on 



the occurrence of Fulmarus glacialis 



on Rathlin Island, 580. 

 Peek, H., British birds at Rousdon, 



noticed, 390. 

 Penguin of the Rio de la Plata, 144 ; 



near Cape Corrientes, 257 ; near Rio 



Grande do Sul, 258. 

 Peru, two new birds from Northern {see 



Berlepsch, H. v.). 

 Phalacrocorax punctatus (see MacLean, 



J. C). 

 Phasianus principalis, abundance of, on 



the Upper Murghab, 584. 

 Phoenicopterus, Manus of {see Parker, 



W. K.). 

 Phylloscopus newtoni {see Gatke, H.). 

 Picaglia, L., Syrrhaptes paradoxus in 



Italy, noticed, 121. 

 Picidoe, new species of (.see Hargitt, E.). 

 Picoides albidior {see Stejneger, L.). 

 Picumnus {see Hargitt, E.). 

 Platalea, on the genus {see Ogilvie-Grant, 



W. R., and Stejneger, L.) ; structure 



of, figured, pi. i. 

 Platen's birds of Palawan (see Blasius, 



W.). 

 Plectropbanes nivalis nesting in the 



north of Scotland {see Young, J.). 



