INDEX or CONTENTS. 



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Pj'craft, W. P., on the b.arbs of feathers, 

 noticed, 312 ; letter on material 

 required by hiin for studying the 

 pterylography of the bird's wing, 

 324 ; on the wing of Archffiopteryx, 

 noticed, 563. 



Rail, a new species of, from the Pacific 

 Islands, noticed, 556. 



Eeichenow, A., list of German birds, 

 noticed, 130 ; the birds of Bismarck- 

 burg, noticed, 312. 



Rhoads, S. N., on Parus hudsonicus 

 and its allies, noticed, 313. 



Rhone, birds of the mouth of the, 549. 



Richmond, C. W., on birds from Nicar- 

 agua and Oosta Rica, and description 

 of a new Trogon, n(jticed, 313. 



Rickett, C. B., on some birds collected 

 in the vicinity of Foochow. With 

 notes by H. H. Slater, 215. 



Ridgway, R., on two new Swifts, noticed, 

 132 ; on a new Odontophorus, noticed, 

 132; new birds from Aldabra and 

 Assumption Island, noticed, 314; 

 birds from Costa Rica, noticed, 314; 

 remarks on the genus Myiarchus, 

 noticed, 314 ; revision of the genus 

 Formicarius, noticed, 442 ; on a new 

 Storm -Petrel from Western Mexico, 

 noticed, 442 ; a new Geothl} pis from 

 Texas, noticed, 563 ; on birds collected 

 by the ' Albatross ' in Alaska, noticed, 

 563. 



Rio Frio, birds of, 313. 



Rollers, monograph of the, noticed, 

 304. 



Rothschild, W., note on Ilimatione 

 dolei, 121; 'Avifauna of Laysan,' 

 no* iced, part i. 132, part ii. 315 ; 

 exhibition of, and remarks upon, a 

 series of Snipes from the New Zealand 

 Islands, 294 ; note on Palmeria dolei, 

 301; 'Novitates Zoologicie,' No. 1, 

 noticed, 308 ; exhibition of some eggs 

 of Ptilorhis victoriai, 429 ; exhibition 

 of some skins and living specimens 

 of Apteryx, 429 ; exhibition of speci- 

 mens of Chastoptila angustipluma, 

 Loxops wolstenhohuei, and Drepan- 

 ornis bruijnii, 433; exhibition of 

 co-types of several species of birds 

 from the Talaut Islands, Kabruang, 

 andSalibabu, .547 ; exhibition of some 

 rare Japanese birds, 547 ; exhibition 

 of Aithurus polytmus from Jamaica, 

 and description of A. taylori, 547 ; 

 exhibition of a specimen of Dioinedia 

 iunnutabilis from Miyakeshima, 54S. 



Ryder, J. A., on the form of the Fowl's 

 egg, noticed, 134. 



Sahara, on birds from the, noticed, 5G1. 



Saleyer, birds from, noticed, 435. 



Salibabu, exhibition of co-types of birds 

 from, 547. 



Salvadori, T., new birds from New 

 Guinea, noticed, 563 ; on birds from 

 Somali-land, noticed, 564. 



Salvin, O., description of a new species 

 of Humming-bird, 120. 



Sandwich Islands, news of Mr. Perkins 

 in, 328 ; birds of the, noticed, 446. 



Santa Cru^, Solomon Islands, on birds 

 from, 28. 



Sarawak, birds from Mount Mulu, 542. 



Saunders, H., description of Stercora- 

 rius maccormicki, 291 ; remarks on 

 the geographical distribution of the 

 Herring-Gull group of Larid:\?, 300 ; 

 observations on the plumage of Larus 

 melanocephalus, 548 ; letter on 

 Spanish examples of Perdix cinerea, 

 575. 



Scandinavia, notes on the genus Lagopus 

 in, 122. 



Schmidhoffen {see Tschusi zu Schmid- 

 hoff'en). 



Schrenck, L. v., obituary, 459. 



Sclater, P. L., ornithology at Munich, 

 Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Frankfort, and 

 Oassel, 106; exhibition of, and re- 

 marks upon, a specimen of the 

 "King" Parrot, 119; exhibition of 

 specimens of the eggs of Podager 

 nacunda and Hydropsalis furcifera, 

 ] 19 ; notes on the Birds of Uruguay, 

 149 ; resolution passed on Dr. 

 Cabanis's retirement from the Editor- 

 ship of the 'Journal fiir Ornitliologie,' 

 293 ; exhibition of a needle used by 

 the natives of N. Queensland, made 

 from the stem of a feather, 299 ; ex- 

 hibition of and remarks on a skin of 

 Amaurolimnas concolor, 299 ; exhi- 

 bition of a specimen of Coracias 

 weigalli, 299 ; exhibition of a skin of 

 Turnix nana from Nyasaland, 424; 

 remarks on the " Scomber scomber" 

 principle in ornitliological nomen- 

 clature, 428; remarks on the Birds 

 of Antarctica, 494 ; exhibition of 

 skins of three rare Parrots from Ar- 

 gentina, 546; exhibition of eggs of 

 Phibalura flavirostris, 547. 



Scoter (Common), in Ireland, 451. 



Scott-Elliot, Mr., news of, in Central 

 Africa, 455. 



Seebohm, H., note on the cross-lines of 

 migration in E. Siberia and N.W. 

 America, 293 ; exhibition of, and re- 

 marks upon, a specimen of Geocichla 

 heineii, 298 ; on the Chinese species 



