CONTENTS OF NUMBER V. [continued). 



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28. Rothschild on a new Paradise-bird I if^i 



29. Sharpe's Plandbooli to the Birds of Great liritain . . . j 



30. Stone on the Generic Term Calliste 152 



31. Siichetet on Hybrids among' Birds I i .-o 



32. Trevor-Battye's ' Ice-bound on Kolguev ' ( '"*'"* 



XII. Letters, Extracts, Notices, «&;c. 



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

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

 Buhveria columbina in China ; Nesting of Kaup's Flycatcher 

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

 the Feet of Birds during Flight ; Egg of Pityriasis yymnocejjhala ; 

 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 



Publications received since the issue of No, 4, Seventh Series, 



AND not noticed IN THE PRESENT NuMBER. 



1. Babrows and Schwabz. The Common Crow of the United States. 

 (U.S. Dept. Agricult., Ornith. & Mainm. Bulletin No. 6.) 



2. Beal. The Crow Blackbirds and their Food. (Reprinted from the 

 Yearbook of the U.S. Dept. of Agricult. 1894, p. 233. 8vo. Washington, 1895.) 



3. Beal and Lucas. Pndiminary Report on the Food of Woodpeckers, 

 and the Tongues of Woodpeckers. (U.S. Dept. of Agricult. : Ornith. k Mamm. 

 Bulletin No. 7.) 



4. Bendibe. The Cowbirds. (Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1893, p. 587, 1895.) 



5. Cabpenteb. On Collections to illustrate the Evolution and Geographical 

 Distribution of Animals. (Reprinted from the Rep. Mus. Assoc. 1894.) 



6. Chapman. Further Notes on Trinidad Birds, with Description of a New 

 Species oi Synallaxis. (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 321.) 



7. Dbummond-Hay. Bird-Life within the Banks of the Tay, from Kenmore 

 to Invergowrie. (Trans. Perth. Soc, Nat. Sci. ii. p. 62.) 



8. Elliot. North American Shore Birds. (8vo. London, 1895.) 



9. FisHEB. Hawks and Owls, from the Standpoint of the Farmer. (Reprint 

 from the Yearbook of the U.S. Dept. of Agricult. 1894, p. 215. 8vo. Washing- 

 ton, 1895.) 



10. Leverkijhn. Vogelschutz in England. (Ornith. Monats. d. Deuts. 

 Ver. Schutze d. Vogelw. 1894, Nos. 1-11, 1895.) 



11. Lucas. The W^eapons and Wings of Birds. (Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 1893, p. 653, 1895.) 



12. LuMSDEN and Brown. A Guide to the Natural History of Loch 

 Lomond and Neighbourhood. (8vo. Glasgow, 1895.) 



13. Muibhead. ' The Birds of Berwickshire.' (Vol. ii. 8vo. Edinburgh, 

 1895.) 



14. The Nidiologist. (Vol. iii. Nos. 1-3, 1895.) 



15. NoBTH. Note on a Nest of Fetrosca leggii, (Records Austral. Mus. ii. 

 no. 6.) 



16. NoBTH. Note on a Semi-Albino Specimen of Dacelo giyas. (Records 

 Austral. Mus. ii. no. 6.) 



17. NosKA and Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen. Das kaukasische Birlihuhn 

 {Tetrao mlokosiewiczi, Tacz.). (Ornith. Jahrb. vi. 1895.) 



18. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. (vi. Heft. 5, 0.) 



19. Palmer. The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal-painter. (8vo. London 

 and New York, 1895.) 



20. ScHALOW. Ueber eine Vogelsammlung aus Westgronland. (J. f. O. 

 1895, p. 457.) 



21. Shufeldt. An Inland Rookery of Phalacrocorax alhociliatus. (Nidio- 

 logist, iii. p. 29, 1895.) 



22. Smithsonian Institution. The Account of the, its Origin, History, 

 Objects and Achievements. (8vo. Washington, 1895.) 



23. Smithsonian Institution. The Exhibit of the, at the Cotton States 

 Exposition, Atlanta, 1895. (8vo. AVashington, 1895.) 



24. TowNSEND. Birds from Cocos and Malpelo Islands, with Notes on 

 Petrels obtained at Sea. (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. xxvii. p. 121.) 



