XX CONTENTS. 



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28. Biittikofer on two new Species of Gerygone .... 304 



29. Dresser's ' Monograph of the Hollers' ..... 304 



30. Elliot's 'Monograph of the Pi««?f<;' 305 



31. Powler on the Marsh- Warbler 305 



32. Hartert's Remarks on German Birds 306 



33. Hutton on the so-called Dinornis queenslandke . . 306 



34. Kaiser on the Birds of Sinai 307 



35. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier on JEpyornis . . . 307 



36. North on the Occurrence of the Corn-Crako in Aus- 



tralia 308 



37. North on a new Australian Parrakeet 308 



38. ' Novitates Zoologica?.'— No. I 308 



39. Ogilvie-Grant on the Game Birds 309 



40. Pycraft on the Barbs of Feathers 312 



41. Beichenow on the Birds of Adoliland 312 



42. Bhoads on Parus hudsonicus and its Allies .... 313 



43. Eiehmond on Birds from Nicaragua and Costa Biea . 313 



44. Bidgway on new Birds from Aldabra and the adjoin- 



ing Islands 314 



45. llidgway on some Costarican Birds ...... 314 



46. Eidgway on the Genus Myiarclms . . . . - . . 314 



47. llothschild on the Avifauna of Laysan 315 



48. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidce 315 



49. Stejneger on Japanese Birds 316 



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



Letters from Mr. John Whitehead, Mr. A. Everett, Heer F. 

 E. Blaauw, Mr. L. W. Wiglesworth, the Ilev. Canon Tristram, 

 Dr. W. T. Blanford, Mr. E. Hartert, and Mr. W. P. Pycraft. 

 The Structure and Variations of the Bird's-Egg ; Dates of 

 Publication of Jardine and Sclby's ' Illustrations of Ornitho- 

 logy ' ; An extinct Aptcrygine Bird in Australia ; Sale of a 

 Great Auk's Egg ; The Black Crow of Somaliland ; Supposed 

 new extinct Gigantic Bird in Australia ; Mr. II. C. L. Perkins 

 in the Sandwich Islands 316 



