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XXXVII. Bornean Notes : Xo. II. By E. Bo-\vdler SnAsrE, 

 LL.D., F.L.S., &c 421 



XXXVIII. Note on some newly-discovered Eggs of the 

 Great Auk. By Edwakd Bidwell 422 



XXXIX. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Nos. 

 XVI.-XVIII 424 



XL. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



50. Biittikofcr on Birds from Celebes, Saleycr, and Flores 435 



51. Chapman on the Birds of Trinidad 43G 



52. Clarke on the Persecution of the Great Skua . . . 437 



53. CoUett's Contributions to the Norwegian Avifauna . 437 



54. Elliot's ' Monograph of the Pittidoi ' 438 



55. Lansdell on Birds from Central Asia 439 



56. Mathew on the Birds of Somerset 439 



57. Meyer on new East-Indian Birds 440 



58. Milne-Edwards on the extinct Birds of the Masearene 



Islands and Madagascar 440 



59. Milne-Edwards and Oustalet on recently extinct Birds. 440 



60. Nelson and Palmer on new Birds from Mexico . . 441 



61. Oustalet on Drejyanornis bniijni 441 



62. Oustalet on new Birds in the Paris Collection . . . 441 



63. Eidgway on the Genus Formicarius 442 



64. Eidgway on a new Storm-Petrel 442 



65. Sharpe's ' Monograph of the Paradiseidce ' . . . . 442 



66. Sharpe on the FulicariiC and Alectorides 443 



67. Stuhlmann on Emin Pasha's last Journey .... 445 



68. Wilson and Evans's 'Aves Hawaiienses' 446 



69. Wyatt's 'British Birds' 447 



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



Letters from Mr. Henry J. Pearson, Mr. William E. De 

 Winton, Mr. J. Backhouse, Mr. Knud Andersen, Mr. C. C. 

 Trowbridge, Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, and Mr. Eobert 

 Patterson. Great Bustard Breeding in Captivity ; Hirnndo gut- 

 iuralis at Brighton ; the Nectarinia of Mount Kenia ; Marbled 

 Duck in Bavaria ; Fdecanus cnsjpus in Italy ; Tinamous as 



