CONTENTS OF NUMBER I. (continued). 



Page 



2-5. Regalia on the Claws of Birds I 



26. Report of the Ornithologist of the U. S. Department of > 124 



Agriculture , . . . j 



27. Report of the Coburg Society for the Protection of Animals ) 



and Plants 



125 



28. Report of the Committee onObserving-Stations for German | 



Birds ) 



29. Ridgway on the Genus Dendrocincla j 



50. Ridgway on Catharus berlepschi \ 126 



51. Ridgway on new Central American Birds ) 



52. Ridgway on the Generic Name Uropsila ! 



■33. Ridgway on new Birds from the Lower Amazons . . . > 127 



■34. Ridgway on the Genus Psitiacula ) 



35. Ridgway on Birds from the Caribbean Islands and Honduras. 128 

 S6. Ridgway on a new Psaltriparus I -i 9q 



37. Salvadori on Bonaparte"'s ' Fauna Italica' \ 



38. Salvadori on the Occurrence of Pallas's Sand Grouse in Italy ) 



•39. Salvadori on Birds from Shoa and Harar t ISO 



40. Salvodori and Giglioli on the Birds of the Voyage of the ( 



' Vettor Pisani ' ) 



41. Shiifeldt on the Osteology of ^S^wrwe/te i Til 



42. Shufeldt on the Osteology of Porzana Carolina ..... \ 



43. 44. Sousa on Additions to the Birds of Angola .... 1 



45. Stejneger on the Birds of the Idzu Islands \ 132 



46. Stejneger on Japanese Birds ) 



47. Taczanowski on the Birds of Poland i l.'^l 



48. Turner on the Birds of Alaska { 



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



Letters from J. H. Gurney, Esq. ; J. A. Harvie-Brown, Esq. ; 

 Lt.-Col. E. A. Butler : Rev. H. A. Macpherson ; J. Young, Esq ; 

 R. Lloyd Patterson, Esq. Additions to the National Bird Col- 

 lection in 1877-78 ; Loche's Collection of Algerian Birds ; Pro- 

 tection of the Sea-Birds on the Fame Islands ; Hydrochelidon 

 leticoptei'ci in New Zealand and Australia ; The Birds of British 

 India ; The Northern Falcons ; The Penguin of the Rio de la Plata 134 



Publications received since the issue of No. 24, Fifth Series, 

 and not noticed in the present number. 



1. 'The Auk' (Vol. v. No. 4.) 



2. BuLLER, Sir W. A Classified List of Mr. S. W. Silver's Collection of 

 New-Zealand Birds. fSvo. London, 1888.) 



3. BtJTTiKOFEE, on Birds from the Congo and South-western Africa. (Notes 

 Leyden Mus. x. p. 209.) 



4. LE\T:EKtrHN. Zweite vorlaufige Mittheilungen die Entenkojen betreffend. 

 (Monatschr. Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw., Sept. 1888.) 



5. LeveekIthn. Wann starb der grosse Alk aus ? (Monatschr. Deutsch. Ver. 

 z. Schutze d. Vogelw., Oct. 1888.) 



6. Leverktjhn. Litterarisches iiber das Steppenhuhn. (Monatsch. Deutsch. 

 Ver. z. Schutze d. Vogelw., Oct. 1888.) 



7. Meyer. Ueber das Vorkommen des Steppenhuhnes in Bulgarien. (Jagd- 

 Zeitung, 1888, p. 685.) 



8. Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereines in Wien. (Jahrg. xii. 

 Nos, 6-11, 1888.) 



9. ' Ornis.' (Jahrg. iv. Heft, ii.-iv.) 



10. Report of the Government Central Museum, Madras, for the year 1887- 

 88. 



11. Shufeldt. Observations upon the Morphology of Gctilus hankiva of India. 

 (Journ. of Comp. Med. and Surgery, Oct. 1888.) 



12. Shufeldt. Contributions to the Comparative Osteology of Arctic and 

 Sub-Arctic Water-Birds. Part I. (Journ. Anat. & Phys. xxiii.) 



13. Southwell. Notes on the Occurrence of Pallas's Sand-Grouse in 

 Norfolk. (Zoologist, 1888, p. 442.) 



14. Trumbull. Names and Portraits of Birds which interest Gunners. 

 (8vo. New York, 1888.) 



15. TscHusi zu Schmidhofen. a Collection of his Ornithological Papers, 

 1875-88. 



