CONTENTS. 



Page 

 I. Notes on some Birds from the Near East and from Tropical 

 East Africa, By Colonel II. Meinertzeiagen, D.S.O., 



F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. (Text-figures 1-7) 1 



II. Notes on the Birds of Tsushima and Iki Islands, Japan, By 



Nagamichi Kuroda, Rigalcushi, F. M.B.O.U 75 



III. A short systematic review of the African Franeolins. By 



C. W. Mackworth Praed, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ... 105 



IV. A lieminiscence of the last great flight of the Passenger 



Pigeon (Ectojjistes migratorius) in Canada. By Percy It. 

 Lowe, from information derived from Dr. A. B. Welford 



of Woodstock, Ontario, C mada 137 



V. A note on some Oriental Zosteropidje, and descriptions of new 



Subspecies, By E, C, Stuart Baker, M,B.0.U 142 



YI. Some Remarks on the Names of certain Birds. By Claud B, 



TiCEHURST, M,A., M.R.C.S., B.C., M.B.O.U 147 



VII. Notes on some Indian Wheatears. By Claud B. Ticehurst, 



M,A., M.R.C.S., B.C., M.B.O.U, (text-tigure 8.) . , . 151 

 VIII. The Birds of Spitsbergen and Bear Island, By the Rev, 



F, C. R. JouRDAiN, M.A., M.B.O.U., C.F.A.O.U 159 



IX. Species and Subspecies. By Percy R. Lowe, M.B.O.U. . .170 

 X, Obituary : Joel Asaph Allen ; Sorgius Nikolaevich Alpheraky ; 

 Valentin Lvovich Bianchi; William Spiers Bruce; Charles' 

 Barney Cory; Alfred Grandidier ; John Macoun , . . 186 



XI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Chapin on African Birds ; Chapman on new South 

 American Birds; Chapman en Peruvian Birds; Crandall 

 on the Blue Bird of Paradise ; Dvvight and rxriscom on the 

 genus Aflapetes; Gladstone on the Value of Birds; Grote on 

 African Birds ; Grote's Translations of Russian Memoirs ; 

 Hartert's Birds of the Paltearctic Fauna : McGregor on 

 Philippine Birds ; Mathews on Australian Birds ; Ifobinson 

 and Kloss on new Oriental Hird.^i; Rothschild on New 

 Guinea Birds; Salvador! and Festa on the Birds of 

 Cyrenaica ; Swann on the Accipitres ; Van Oort on the Birds 

 of Holland ; Wetmore's Recent Papers; Witherby's Hand- 

 book of B^iti)^h Birds; Wood and Green on Bird 

 Economics ; Journal fiir Ornitbologie ; Journal of the 

 Museum of Comparative Oology ; Norsk Ornith(dogisk 

 Tidsskrift; Trans. London Nat. Hist. Soc. ; Trans. Norfolk 

 and Norwich Naturalists' Soc. ; List of other Ornithological 



Publications received 193 



XII. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from Mr. P. F. Bimyard on the Little Ringed 

 Plover in the Balearic Islands, Dr. A. Landsborough 

 Thomson on Bird-Migration and the Marking Method, Mr. 

 E. Leonard Gill on a possible Mendelian variation in 

 Nature, Mr. H. F. Witherby on Nestling Plumages of 

 Owls, and from Mr. A. L. Butler on a blue-grey example of 

 Egretta gnrzetta ; Report of the British Museum ; Bird 

 Protection in Norfolk ; Mr. Bannerman's work on the 

 Canary I<lands ; The Everest Expedition; Personal; 

 Notice to Contributors 214 



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