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XXXIII. Notes on some Species of the Pamilies Cypselidce, 

 Caprimulgidce, and Fodarr/ida', with Remarks on Subspecific 

 Forms and their Nomenclature. By Ernst Hartf.rt. (Plates 



VI. & VII.) 362 



XXXIV. On the Skull, Sternum, and Shoulder-Girdie of 

 ^pyornis. By Chas. W. Andrews, B.Sc, F.G.S., Assistant in 



the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). (Plates VIII. & IX.) . .370 



XXXV. Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, held April 22nd, 1896 389 



XXXVI. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 

 Nos. XXXIV.-XXXVI 392 



XXXVII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



69. Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 17 & 18 . 405 



70. 'The Auk,' January and April, 1896 406 



71. Beal on the Crow Blackbirds and their Food . . . 407 



72. Beal on the Food of the Woodpeckers 408 



73. Boucard's ' Humming Bird ' 408 



74. Bruun on the Birds of South Greenland .... 409 



75. Biittikofer on Phasianus ignitus and its Allies . . 410 



76. Chapman on Ardetta neoxena 410 



77. Elliot on two new Ptarmigans 410 



78. Finsch on the Avifauna of New Zealand . . . .411 



79. Fisher on Hawks and Owls considered agriculturally 411 



80. Hartlaub on Birds recently Extinct or likely to 



become so 411 



81. Loomis on Californian Water-Birds 413 



82. Lorenz-Libarnau on a new Dendrocolaptine Bird . 413 



83. Lucas on the Tongues of North-American Wood- 



peckers 414 



84. Meyer and Wiglesworth on Birds from North-east 



Celebes, Peling, and Banggai 41 4 



85. North on Zosterojjs cci^rulescens 415 



86. North's ' Oological Notes ' 415 



87. North on Chlamydodera orientalis 415 



88. Noska and Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen on the Caucasian 



Snow-Partridge 416 



89. Eotzell on the Birds of Narberth, Pennsylvania . . 416 



