115. Ridgway's ' Manual of North-American Birds,' second ) 



edition ' ^~q 



116. Rid g way on a new Geothhipis 



117. Ridgway on new Birds from the Galapagos .... 



118. Ridgway ou a new Subspecies of Peucedramus . . . . i cqq 



119. Rothschild and Harterton tlie Birds of the Papuan Islands. ( 



120. Salvadori on Birds from South-eastern New Guinea . . ( ggi 



121. Shufeldt on Progress in American Ornithology . . . . ( 



122. Wilson and Evans's 'Aves Ilawaiieuses ' I non 



123. Witchell on the Song of Birds ( 



L. Letters, Extracts, Notices, &c. 



Letters from Mr. Ernest Gibson, Mr. Henry J. Pearson, Herr 

 Kuschel, Dr. A. B. Meyer, and Br. H. Gadow. Breeding of 

 Mycteria mnericcma ; The Nomenclature of the Palamedeidce ; 

 Nation's ' Birds of Peru ' ; New Australian Expedition ; Buller's 

 ' Birds of New Zealand ' ; The Collection of Birds at Gottiugen ; 

 The Collection of Eggs of the late Herr Wm. Hollandt ; Additions 

 to the Bird-Collections of the British Museum ; The newly- 

 discovered Extinct Gigantic Bird of South Australia 583 



LI. Obituary.— Lord Lilford 593 



Index of Scientific Names 597 



Index of Contents 615 



Titlepage, Preface, List of Members, and Contents, 



Publications received since the issue of No. 7 , Seventh Series, 

 and not noticed in the present number. 



78. The Annals of Scottish Natural History. (No. 19, July 1896.) 



79. Berg. Comunicaciones Oologicas. (Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aiies, 

 V. p. 33.) 



80. Bladen. The Cuckoo and its Foster Parents. (8vo. Stoke-upon-Trent, 

 1896.) 



81. Blasius. Vogelleben an den Deutsclien Leuchtthiirmen. (Ornis, viii. 

 p. 579.) 



82. Blasius. Schlussfolgerungen aus den ornithologiscben an deutschen 

 Leuchtthiirmen in dem zehnjahrigen Zeitraume von 1885-94. (Oruis, viii. 

 p. 593.) 



83. Blasius. Die "Vogel des Herzogthums Braunschweig und der angren- 

 zenden Gebiete. (Ornis, viii. p. 621.) 



84. BuTTiKOFER. On the Genus Pycnonotus and some allied Genera. (Notes 

 Leyden Mus. xvii. p. 225.) 



85. BtJTTiKoFER. On a probably new Species of Crypturus. (Notes Leyden 

 Mus. xviii. p. 1.) 



86. Cherrie. Contributions to the Ornithology of San Domingo. (Field 

 Columb. Mus. Publ. No. 10.) 



87. Hartert. On Oraithological Collectiims made by Mr. Alfred Everett 

 in Celebes and on the Islands South of it. (Novitates Zool. iii. p. 148.) 



88. Hartert. A new form of Swift from Madagascar. (Novitates Zool. iii. 

 p. 231.) 



89. Leverktjhn and Blasius. Ornithologische Beobachtungen aus dem 

 Herzogthum Braunschweig, 1885-94. (Ornis, viii. p. 373.) 



00. Lucas. Osteological and Pterylographical Characters of the Procniatidse. 

 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 505.) 



91. Manning. Ueber den Vogelzug auf Barbados im Jabre 1886. (Ornis. 

 viii. p. 367.) 



92. Mittheilungen des ornithologiscben Vereines in Wien. (xx. Nr. 2.) 



93. Nathusius. Zur Oologie der Rhea-Arteu. (J. f. 0. 1896, p. 257.) 



94. Oberholser. Descriptions of two new ^ubspecies of the Downy 

 Woodpecker, JJryobates jmbescens (Linn.). (Proa^U.S. Nat._ Mus. ^viJi. p. 547.) 



95. Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. (vii. Heft 4.) ^J i' ^^ ^-1^1^^ 



96. The Ornithologist. (Yol. i. no. 4.) ' • "^ ..-J l'*^"''^ 



97. Prazak. Ornithologische Notizen. — II. Ueber einige Varietaten von 

 Carduelis carduelis. (Ornith. Monatsb. 1896, p. 36.) 



98. Ridgway. Characters of a new American Family of Passerine Birds. 

 (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 449.) 



99. Richmond. Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott in Kashmir, Baitistan, and Ladak. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 451.) 



