INDEX OF CONTEiXTS. 



1896. 



Aden, further notes on the birds of, 



^pyornis, on the skull, sternum, and 



shoulder-girdle of, 376. 

 Africa, description of three new species 

 of Barbets from, 132 ; on new birds 

 from, noticed, 151 ; on birds from the 

 mountains of Nyika, British Central, 

 482 ; ' The Birds of Africa,' notes on, 

 258, on the completion of the first 

 volume of, 2(>3, noticed, 419. 

 Aglaia, the priointy of the name, 



noticed, 152. 

 Albatrosses, Catalogue of the, in the 



Briti.'<h Museum, noticed, 282. 

 Alcippe, on some Chinese species of the 



genus, 309. 

 Aleutian Islands, on two new Ptar- 

 migans from tlie, noticed, 411. 

 Allen's ' Naturalist's Library,' Birds, 



vol. ii., noticed, 151. 

 Ameghino collection of Fossil Birds, 



note on the. 293. 

 America, exliibition of some skins of 

 birds of North, 261 ; ' Check-list of 

 Birds of N'orth,' 2nd ed., noticed, 

 267 ; ' Sliore-biiTfsof North,' noticed, 

 270 ; on the birds of North, noticed, 

 576 ; ' Manual of the Birds of North,' 

 2nd ed., noticed, 579. 

 American Ornithologists' Union Check- 

 list of North-American Birds, 2nd 

 ed., noticed, 267. 

 Andersen, K., on Diomedea melano- 



phrys in the Faeroes, noticed, 136. 

 Andrews, C. W., remarks on the Sterc- 

 ornithes, a group of extinct birds 

 from Patagonia, 1 ; on the skull, 

 sternum, and shoulder-girdle of 

 .^pyornis, 376. 



'Annals of Scottish Natural History,' 

 noticed, 137, 405. 



Antarctic Islands, on the .iiimilaritj' of 

 the faunas of tlie Mascarei;e Islands 

 and the, noticed, 576. 



Archivopteryx, on the wing of, noticed, 

 578. 



Ai'deidae, list of species of the family, 

 253. 



Argentine Republic, on birds from the, 

 noticed, 282; on the birds of the 

 Estaucia Sta. Elena, pt. iii., 315. 



' Auk,' noticed, 137, 406. 



Australia, Report on tlie Birds of the 

 Horn Scientific Expedition to Cen- 

 tral, noticed, 577 ; new expedition 

 into, 589 ; on the newly discovered 

 extinct gigantic bird of South, 593. 



Babuyan Group, on the birds of Fuga 

 Island, in the, 101, 132. 



Bagaces, Costa Rica, on birds of the 

 vicinity of, 431. 



Baker, E. C. S., notes on the nidifica- 

 tion of some Indian birds not men- 

 tioned in Hume's ' Nests and Eggs,' 

 Part lii., 318. 



Banggai, on birds from, noticed, 414. 



Barbertun District of the Transvaal, on 

 the Ornithology of the, 1()5. 



Barnes, H. E., obituarial notice of, 162. 



Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H., departure 

 of, for the North Pacific, 427 ; ' Har- 

 row Birds,' noticed, 568. 



Barrington, R. M., note on the con- 

 templated voyage of, to Rockall 

 Island, 427. 



Barrows, W. B., and Schwarz, E. A., 

 on the American Crow, noticed 

 265. 



