CONTENTS OF NUMBER XIIL— NEW SERIES. 



I. On the Raptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. By Alfeed E. AVai- 



LACE, F.Z.S. &e. (Plate I.) ] 



II. Stray Notes on Ornithology in India. By Allan Hume, C.B 2i 



III. An Eighth additional List of Birds from Natal. By J. H. Gueney, F.Z.S, 



(Plate II.) 4( 



IV. Ornithological Notes from Amoy. By Robert Swinhoe, Her Majesty's 



Consul, F.Z.S. &c 52 



V. Observations on the Egg-beds of j^pjornis. By Alfred Geandidier . . 65^ 



VI. Note on Lanius melanthes, Swinhoe, and on Lanius cephalomelas, B^d. By 

 Viscount Walden 





VII. On a recently-discovered Tanager of the genus CalUste. By P. L. Sclatee, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Zoological Society of London. 

 (Plate III.) . . . • 



VIII. Notes on Various Indian Birds. By R. C. Beavan, Capt. Bengal Staff Corps, 



C.M.Z.S 73 



IX. Remarks on Professor Huxley's proposed Classification of Birds. By The 

 Editor 



X. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. English'. — Sclater's edition of Nitzsch's ' Pterylography ; ' Eyton's ' Osteologia 



Avium; ' G. R. Gray's ' List of Gallinas;' Rodd's ' Ornithology of Cornwall;' 

 BuUmore's ' Cornish Fauna ; ' J. H. Gurney, jun., on Occurrences of the Grey 

 Phalarope ; Layard's ' Birds of South Africa ' 96 



2. French : — Verreaux on New Birds ; Ornithological papers in the ' Revue de Zoo- 



logie' 102 



3. Swiss: — ' Bulletin de la Societe Ornithologique Suisse,' vol. i. part 2 . . . .104 



4. Italian : — Riva's * Ornitologo Ticinese ;' Bettoni's ' Uccelli che nidificano in Lom- 



bardia,' parts 1-15; Cara's ' Osservazioui al Catalogo dal Dottore Salvadori' . 105 



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



Inseln;' HoiFmann, ' Die Waklschnepfe ' 10/ 



C. Dutch and Belgian : — Sehlegel's 'Museum des Pays-Bas,' part 9; Finsch's 'Die 



Papageien,' vol. i. ; Dubois's ' Archives Cosmologiques ' 110 



7. Norwegian and Swedish: — Collett's ' Observationer fra Hvaloerne;' Holmgren's 



' Skandinaviens Foglar,' part 1 ; Westerlund's ' Skandinavisk Oologi ' . . .113 



8. American : — Lawrence on New American Birds and on New TrochilidcB ; Cassin's 



' Third Study of the Icteridce ; ' Jackson on the Habits of Melanerpes formici- 

 vorus 114 



9. ^MsiraZiawi—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. Cunning- 

 ham, and Messrs. J. H. Gurney, W. E. Brooks, E. Blyth, and Tristram ; Nature 

 of the Colouring-matter in the Touracoos; Deaths of Mr. Chambers-IIodgetts 

 and Dr. David Scott ; Mr. W. Jesse's Appointment as Zoologist to the Abyssi- 

 nian Expedition; Erratum 118 



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