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



Letters from Prof. Dr. M. Menzbier, Mr, J. Cordeaux, and 

 Mr. A. Trevor-Battye. Rare Birds at Madras ; Occurrence of 

 Bidweria columhina in China ; Nesting of Kaup's Flycatcher 

 [Arses kaupi) ; Movements of Ornithologists ; The Position of 

 the Feet of Birds during Flight ; Egg of Pityriasis gf/mno- 

 cephcda ; Proposed Memoir of the late A. G. More .... 154 



XIII. Obituary.— H. T. Wharton ; Henry Seebohm ; H. E. 

 Barnes; Robert Brown ; T. H.Huxley 159 



Nttmbee VI., April. 



XIV. Notes on the Ornithology of the Barberton District of 



the Transvaal. By Perc? Rendall, M.D., F.Z.S 165 



XV. On a Collection of Birds from Mount Chiradzulu, in the 

 Shire Highlands, Xyasaland. By Capt. G. E. SnELLEr, F.Z.S. 

 With Prefatory Remarks bj' P. L. Sclatee. (Plate IV.) . .177 



XVI. Birds'-nesting in and around Lucknow. By William 

 Jesse, La Martiuiere College, Lucknow, Oude 185 



XVII. Notes on Birds observed in Russian Lapland, Kolguev, 

 and Novaya Zemlya, in 1895. By Heney J. Peakson. With 

 Introductory Remarks by Col. H. W. Feilden, C.M.Z.S. . . 199 



XVIII. Remarks^on Richardson's Merlin (Faico richardsoni, 

 Ridgway). By W. E. Bkooks. (Plate V.) 22(3 



XIX. On a Collection of Birds made by ]\lr. Alfred Sharps 

 in the Zomba District of Nyasaland. By Capt. G. E. Shelley, 

 F.Z.S 229 



XX. Notes on a small Collection of Birds from Mashonaland. 



By Gtjr A. K. Marshall 241 



XXI. On the Geographical Distribution of Sterna dougalli, 

 Mont. By Howard Saunders 24(i 



