CONTENTS OE NUMBER XIII.— EIGHTH SERIES. 



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I. Oil a Collodion of Birds from the District of Declfontein in 



Cape Colony. By It, Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. &c, — Part I. 1 



II. The Birds of Nak! Island, on the Coast of Syria. By J. II. 



Stenhocse, M.B., R.N., H.M.S. 'Hotspur' .."... 29 



III. Ornithological Journal of a Voyage round the World in 

 the 'Valhalla' (November 1902 to August .1903). By 

 M. J. Nicoil, M.B.O.U. (Plate I.) *. 32 



IV. On the Breeding of some of the Waterfowl at Gooilust in the 



Year 1903. By F. E. Blaauw, C.M.Z.S 07 



V. The Linnean Mot ac ill a stapazina identified and restored 



to use. By T. Salvador!, II. M.B.O.U 75 



VI. Saldanha Bay and its Bird-Islands. By W. L. Sclateb, 



Director of the South African Museum 79 



VII. On further Collections of Birds from the Efulen District of 

 Cameroon.West Africa. By R. Bowdler Suarpe, LL.D. &c. 

 —Part I. (Plate II.) 88 



VIII. On some rare or unfigured Eggs of Paloearctic Birds. By 



H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., &c. (Plate III.) . . 100 



IX. Studies in Bird-Migration. II. The Results of Observations 



made at the .Kentish Knock Lightship in the Autumn of 

 1903. By William Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 

 (Plate IV.) 112 



X. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications: — 



1. ' Annals of Scottish Natural History ' [ ... 



2. Arrigoni degli Oddi on French and Italian Birds . . . . ( 



3. 'The Auk' 144 



4. ' A vicultural Magazine ' 145 



5. Blasius on the Great Auk 140 



6. Castle and Allen on Albinism | . ,_ 



7. Dubois' 'Synopsis Avium ' j 



8. 'The Emu' 148 



9. Evans's 'Turner on Birds' lit) 



10. Goeldi's Album of Amazonian Birds | . 



11. Hartert on the Birds of the Key and .South-east Islands . \ 



12. Hartert on the Birds of the Rio de Oro ' 1 --> 



13. Hellmayr on new or little-known South- American Birds . \ 



14. Hellmayr on the Paridte, Sittidce, and Certhiidce .... 1 53 



15. Huber on the Materials of the Nest of Ostinops decumanus . | . - r 



1U. ' Irish Naturalist ' f l&0 



17. Loudon's Ornithological Journey in Central Asia .... 150 



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