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XVIII. Modern Noraonclature and Subspecies. By H. J. 

 Elwes, F.K.S., M.B.O.U ^1-1 



XIX. llesults of a Collecting Trip in the Cantabrian 

 Mountains, northern Spain, By H. F. Witheuby, M.B.O.U. 

 (Plates III. & IV.) 323 



XX. Obituary : Joun Kikk ; John BtDDur,PH ; Wim.iam 

 WiLLoUGHBT Cole Vekner ; John Patricius Chawokth- 

 MUSXERS 346 



XXI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Baker on Indian Game-Birds ; Bangs on Chinese and Burmese 

 Birds ; Bannerman on the Canary Islands ; Beebe on the 

 Pheasants ; Cherrie and Eeichenberger on new South 

 American Birds ; Chubb's Birds of British Guiana; Gladstone 

 on the Scottish Capercaillies ; Grote on the birds of South- 

 West Africa; Lonnberg on the food of the Buzzard; Mathews 

 on Australian Birds; Miller and Griscom on new Central 

 American Birds ; Murphy on the Sea-birds of Peru ; Murphy 

 and Harper on the Diving Petrels ; Oberholser on desert bird- 

 life ; Phillips on breeding hybrids ; Schaanning on a new race of 

 Blackcock ; Sheels on Ulster l^.irds ; Todd on the Tyranuid;e 

 Wetmore on Birds' temperature; Witherby on the ^^'esterl] 

 Mediterranean Shearwater; Auk; Avicultural Magazine; 

 Bird-Lore ; Bird Notes ; liombay Journal ; Bull. Essex 

 County Ornithological Club ; Fauna ocli Flora ; Gerfaut ; 

 Irish Naturalist ; Ornithologische Monalsberichte ; Revue 

 Franvaise d'Ornithologie ; Scottish Naturalist; Contents of 

 recent ornithological and other Journals 3o2 



XXII. Letters, Extracts, and Notes: — 



Letters from Capt. P. W. Munn and the Rev, F. C. R. 

 Jourdain on the Little Ringed Plover in the Balearic Isles ; 

 jNlr, A. J. Campbell on Illogical Rules of Nomenclature; The 

 Annual (General Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union; 

 The McCunnell collection of British Guiana birds ; Bird 

 Sanctuaries in the London Parks ; Importation of bird-skins 

 for scientitic purposes ; PersouaUa 388 



