XXXVIU CONTENTS. 



Page 

 XL. A JN'ote on Acquired or Somatic Variations. By 

 Pekcy R. Lowe, M.B.O.U 712 



XLI. Obituary: William Henky Hudson; Heatley jS'oble; 

 William Pa lmek; Theothil Stuber. 715 



XLII, Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Baker on the Birds of British India ; Baldwin on bird- 

 bandiug : Bangs and Penard's recent papers ; Fletcher and 

 Inglis on some common Indian Birds ; Flower on the Giza 

 Zoological Gardens ; Grote on new African Birds ; Haiuer on 

 Sexual Selection ; Hartert on Central and Eastern Asian 

 Larks and Wrens ; Kuroda on the Birds of Hainan ; Kuroda 

 on new Japanese Birds ; Lounberg on the protection of the 

 Golden-eye; McGregor on Philippine birds; Mathews on 

 Australian Birds ; Moruiyania and Kuroda on the Birds of 

 Micronesia ; Murphy on some American Petrels ; Van Oort 

 on the Birds of Holland ; Petronievics on Archceopteryx ; 

 Sachtleben on Lithuanian Birds ; Schiller on Danish Birds ; 

 Shufeldt on the Bermudan " Cahow " ; Swarth on the Birds 

 of the Stikine River, British Columbia ; Thomson on the mi- 

 gration of Starlings ; Ticehurst on the Birds of Mesopotamia ; 

 Wetmore on Fossil Birds from Porto Kico ; Witherby on 

 British Birds; Naturelaud; Nature-Lover; Provencher Society 

 of Nat. Hist. ; Contents of recent ornithological and other 

 Journals 718 



XLIII. Letters, Extracts, and Notes: — 



Letters from Dr. E. Hopkinson on Cuckoos in the (lanibia ; 

 Major li. F. Meiklejohn on a Defence of Egg-collecting, and 

 Nesting in Esthonia ; Dr. William Evans on the Wl)ite- 

 tailed Eagle on the Bass Rock; Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe — 

 a Correction ; Systema Avium ; Another Ringed Swallow in 

 S.Africa. . ." 745 



Index of Scientific Names 753 



Index of Contents 787 



Titlepage; Dates of Issue of ' The Ibis ' for 1922; Officers of 

 the B.O.U., past and present ; List of Members ; Contents ; 

 List of Plates ; and List of Text-figures. 



