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90. Salvador! on Loria's Collections in Eastern Papuasia 416 



91. Salvadori on Birds from Somaliland and Gallaland . 417 



92. Sharpe's * Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain ' . 418 



93. Sharpe's ' Monograph of the Paradiseidce ' . . . .419 



94. Shelley's ' Birds of Africa " 419 



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



Letters from Count Salvadori, Mr. W. E. Brooks, and Lord 

 Lilford. Movements of Ornithologists and Collectors ; New 

 Edition of Shelley's ' Birds of Egypt ' ; Seebohm's Unfinished 

 Works ; Eemains of the Great Auk in Ireland ; Nesting of 

 Rupicola crocea in Guiana ; Waders in the Zoological Society's 

 Fish-house; The new Extinct Gigantic Bird of Australia; 

 Death of Lord Lilford 421 



Ntjmbeb VIII., October. 



XXXIX. A List of Birds collected or observed on the 

 Lower, Southern, and South-western Slopes of the Volcano of 

 Miravalles and the lower lands extending to Bagaces in Costa 

 Rica, with a few Observations on their Habits. By C. E. 

 Underwood 431 



XL. On the Change to Spring Plumage without a Moult. 

 By John Guille Millais. (Plate X.) 451 



XLI. On the Birds of the Philippine Islands.— Part VII. 

 The Highlands of Mindoro. By W. R. Ogilvie Grant. With 

 Field-Notes by John Whitehead. (Plate XL) 457 



XLII. A few Notes on Birds of Egypt, from Observations 

 made at Cairo in the months of January and February, 1896. 

 By E. Cavendish Taylor, M.A., F.Z.S 477 



XLIII. Notes on some Birds from the higher mountains oi 

 Nyika, west of Lake Nyasa, British Central Africa, with a 

 description of a new Species of Francolin (FrancoJmus craiv- 

 shayi). By W. 11. Ogilvie Grant. With Field-Notes by 

 Richard Crawshay. (Plate XII.) 482 



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