CONTENTS OP NUMBER XXIII. {continued). 



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84. Salvadori on Pucrasia rvficollis I c:rn 



85. ' Scottish Naturalist ' | ^^ 



86. Van Somereu's Studies of East-African Bird-life . . \ ^ki 



87. The South African Journal ( ^^ 



88. Thompson on Bird-marking 552 



XXVII, Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letter from Mr. H. L. White ; New and rare Birds from 

 S.E. Tibet ; Shedding of the sheath of the bill in the 

 Penjruin ; Additions to the British Bird-list; Mr. Wollaston's 

 new Expedition to New Guinea; Death of Dr. W. Blasius . . 552 



Publications received si.mce the issue of No. 22, Ninth 

 Series, and not noticed in the present Number. 



69. ' Annals of the Cyprus Nat. Hist. Soc' (No. Ill, .Tan.-Dec. lOll. 1912.) 



70. 'Ardea.' Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Oruithologische Vereeniging. 



(Jaargang i. Atiev. 1, April 1912.^ 



71. 'Bird Notes.' Journal of the Foreign Bird Club. ( Vol. iii. Nos. 3-6. 1912.) 



72. ' Bird Notes and News.' (Vol. v. Nos. 1 & 2. 1912.) 



73. ' British Birds.' (Vol. v. Nos. 11, 12 ; Vol. vi. Nos. 1 & 2. 1912.) 



74. ' Bulletin de la Soci4t6 Zoologique de Geneve.' (Tome i. Ease. 10-16. 



1911.) 



75. 'Ca.ssinia.' A Bird Annual. (No. xv. 1911. Philadelphia, 1912.) 



76. 'The Condor.' (Vol. xiv. Nos. 2, 3. 1912.) 



77. Eagle Clarke, W, Studies in Bird-Migration, (liondon, 1912. ) 



78. Gladstone, H. S. A Catalogue of the Vertebrate P\iuna of Dumfries- 



shire. (Dumfries, 1912.) 



79. Hautert, Jourdain, Ticehurst, and Witherby. A Hand-list of 



British Birds. (London, 1912.) 



80. Harvie-Brown, J. A. The Eidniar : its Past and Present Distribution 



as a Breeding Species in the British I^les. (Scottish Nat. 1912.) 



81. Headley, F. W. The Flight of Bird.s. (London, 1912.) 



82. Hennicke, C. R. Vogelschutzbuch. (Naturwissenschaftiiche Weg- 



weiser, Serie A, Band 27. Stuttgart, 1912.) 



83. Horsbrugh, Major Boyd. The (:iame-Iiirds and Water-Fowl of South 



Africa. (Part'l. London, 1912.) 



84. Manila Bureau of Science. Tenth Annual Report. (Manila, 1912.) 



85. Mathews, G. M. The Birds of Austialia. (^Vol. 1. pt. 6 ; Vol. 2. pt. 1. 



1912.) 



86. ' Messager Ornithologique.' (No. 2, 1912, Moscow.) 



87. Morse, A. P. Pocket List of Birds of Eastern Massachusetts. (Peabody 



Academy of Science, Salem, 1912.) 



88. MouLTON, J. C. Report on the Sarawak Museum for 1910. (Sarawak, 



1912.) 



89. Murphy, R. C. The Birds of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. (Museum News, 



Vol. 7. No. 8. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1912.) 



90. 'OologiaNeerlandica.' (Parts II., IIL 1912.) 



91. ' Ornithologisches Jahrbuch.' (xxiii. Heft. 1, 2. 1912.) 



92. Palmer, T. S. Chronology and Index of the more important Events in 



American Game Protection, 1776-1911. (U.S. Dept. Agric, Bull. 41. 

 Washington, 1912.) 



93. Report of the Poultry Expert for the Year 1910-1911. (Adelaide, 



S. Australia, 1912.)' 



94. Shufeldt, Dr. R. W. American Ducks and how to distinguish them. 



(Milwaukee, May 1912.) 



95. Smith, Amy. The Rarer Birds of Somerset. (Taunton, 1912.) 



'J6. Tschusi zu Schmidhopfen, V, R. von. Ornithologisches Literatur 

 Oesterreich-Ungarns 1910. (Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1912.) 



97. . Zur Geschichte der Ornithologie in Steiermark. (Mitt, dea 



Naturw. Vereins f. Steiermark, Bd. 48. 1911.) 



98. WoLLASTON, A. F. R. I'ygmies and Papuans. (London, 1912.) 



99. ' Zoologischer Anzeiger.' (Bd. xxxix. Nr. 10-24. 1912.; 



