X CONTENTS. 



Page 

 J. H. Gumey, jun., on Occurrences of the Grey Phalarope ; 



Layard's ' Birds of South Africa ' 96 



2. French : — Yerreaux on New Birds ; Ornithological papers 



in the ' Revue de Zoologie ' . 102 



3. Siviss : — ' Bulletin de la Societe Ornithologique Suisse,' 

 vol. i. part 2 104 



4. Italian : — Riva's ' Ornitologo Ticinese ;' Bettoni's 'Uccelli 

 che nidificano in Lombardia/ parts 1-15 ; Cara's ' Osservazioni 



al Catalogo dal Dottore Salvadori ' 105 



5. German: — Finsch and Hartlaub, ' Ornithologie der Viti-, 

 Samoa- und Tonga-Inseln ; ' HoiFmann, ' Die Waldschnepfe ' . 107 



6. Butch and Belgian: — Schlegel's 'Museum des Pays-Bas,' 

 part 9; Finsch's 'Die Papageien,' vol. i. ; Dubois's 'Archives 

 Cosmologiques ' 110 



7. Norwegian and JSivedish : — CoUett's ' Observationer fra 

 Hvaloerne ; ' Holmgren's ' Skandinaviens Foglar,' part 1 ; Wes- 

 terlund's ' Skandinavisk Oologi ' 113 



8. American : — Lawrence on New American Birds and on 

 New Trochilidoi ; Cassin's 'Third Study of the Icteridce;^ ^aok- 



son on the Habits of J/isZawerpes/on?i/civorus 114 



9. Australian: — Diggles's 'Ornithology of Australia,' parts 1 



to 10 117 



XI. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. E. P. Ramsay and E. L. Layard, Prof. 

 M'Coy, Dr. Cunningham, and Messrs. J. H. Giu-ney, W. E. 

 Brooks, E. Blyth, and Tristram; Nature of the Colouring- 

 matter in the Touracoos ; Deaths of Mr. Chanjbers-Hodgetts 

 and Dr. David Scott ; Mr. \V. Jesse's Appointment as Zoologist 

 to. the Abyssinian Expedition ; Erratum 118 



Number XIV., April. 



XII. Notes on Mr. Layard's ' Birds of South Africa. By 



J. H. GuKNEY, F.Z.S. (Plate IV.) 135 



XIII. Notes on Various Indian Birds. By R. C. Beavan, 

 Bengal Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S 165 



