CONTENTS. 



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I. Notes on Embernagra platensis and its Allies, with the 

 description of a new Species. By Charles Chubb, F.Z.S., 

 M.B.O.U. (Plate I.) 1 



II, Index-List of the Coloured Plates of Birds in 'The Ibis,' 

 1859 to 1917. By Dr. E. Hopkinson, D.S.O., M.A., M.B., 

 M.B.O.U 10 



III. Notes on the Nidification of some Indian Ealconidse. III. The 



Genera Ictinaetns and Microhierax. By E. C. Stuart 

 Baker, M.B.O.U. (Plate II.) 51 



IV. Erythrism in Birds' Eggs: an Address read at the Third 



Oological Dinner on 26 September, 1917, by E. C. Stuart 

 Baker, M.B.O.U 68 



V. On Birds recently collected in Siam. Part I. Phasianidcf — 



Eurykemidee. ' By C. Boden Kloss, M.B.O.U 76 



VI. The Platycercine Parrots of Australia : a Study in Colour- 

 change. By Gregory M, Mathews. (Plate III. & Text- 

 figures 1,2.) 115 



VII. Rejections by Birds of Eggs unlike their own : with Uemarks 

 on some of the Cuckoo Problems, Bv C. F. M. Swynnbrton, 

 C.M.B.O.U '. 127 



VIII. Obituary : Alfred John North ; Cecil Godfrey Bawling ; 



Commander The Hon. R. 0. B. Bridgeraan, B.N. . . .154 



IX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Despott on Maltese Birds : Gladstone on Lord Lilford's 

 Coloured Figures of British Birds ; Gyldenstolpe on the heel- 

 pads of Birds ; Gyldenstolpe on Malay Birds ; Mathews on 

 Australian Birds ; Peters on the Birds of Santo Domingo ; 

 Roberts on South African Birds ; Shufeldt on a fossil bird 

 from Colorado ; White ou the Birdlife of the South Australian 

 Coasts ; The Auk ; The Avicultural Magazine ; The Emu ; and 

 List of other Ornithological Publications received 158 



X. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from C. F. M. Swynnerton, the Rev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain, Captain T. N. Kennedy, Hugh Whistler, Gregory 

 M. Mathews, and 11. W. Robinson; Third Oological Dinner; 

 Diatiyma (PI. IV.) ; Russian Ornithological Review ; A new 

 book by Mr. Beebe ; Errata in Major Meiklejohn's Paper . . 172 



Communications intended for publication in ' The Ibis ' should be addressed 

 to the Editor, 10 Sloane Court, Chelsea, S.W. 1. 



Members are requested to inform the Secretary, c/o Tne Zoological Society 

 of London, Regent's Park, N.W. 8, of any change of Address, so that the 

 numbers of * The Ibis ' may reach them without delay. 



