﻿CONTENTS 
  OF 
  VOL. 
  V.— 
  SIXTH 
  SERIES. 
  

  

  (1893.) 
  

  

  Number 
  XVII., 
  January. 
  

  

  Page 
  

  

  I. 
  List 
  of 
  Birds 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Alexander 
  Whyte, 
  F.Z.S., 
  

   in 
  Nyassaland. 
  By 
  Captain 
  G. 
  E. 
  Shelley, 
  F.Z.S. 
  With 
  a 
  

   Preface 
  by 
  The 
  Editor. 
  (Plates 
  I.-III.) 
  1 
  

  

  II. 
  On 
  tlie 
  Osteology, 
  Pterylosis, 
  and 
  Muscular 
  Anatomy 
  of 
  

   the 
  American 
  Fin-foot 
  (lleUotviis 
  siirinamensis). 
  By 
  Frank 
  

   E. 
  Beddard, 
  M.A., 
  F.R.S., 
  Prosector 
  to 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  

  

  of 
  London, 
  Examiner 
  in 
  Biology 
  to 
  the 
  Roy. 
  Coll. 
  Surg. 
  ... 
  30 
  

  

  III. 
  On 
  the 
  Extinct 
  Giant 
  Birds 
  of 
  Argentina. 
  By 
  R. 
  

   Lydekker 
  40 
  

  

  IV. 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Loo-Choo 
  Islands. 
  By 
  Henry 
  

   Seebohm 
  47 
  

  

  V. 
  On 
  Five 
  apparently 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Birds 
  from 
  Hainan. 
  

  

  By 
  F. 
  W. 
  Styan, 
  F.Z.S 
  54 
  

  

  VI. 
  On 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Aden. 
  By 
  Lieut. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Barnes, 
  F.Z.S. 
  

   (Plate 
  IV.) 
  57 
  

  

  VII. 
  Comparative 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Swifts 
  and 
  Humming-birds. 
  

  

  By 
  H. 
  W. 
  Shupeldt, 
  M.D., 
  C.M.Z.S 
  84 
  

  

  VIII. 
  Notes 
  on 
  Collecting 
  in 
  Kona, 
  Hawaii. 
  By 
  R. 
  C. 
  L. 
  

   Perkins, 
  B.A 
  101 
  

  

  IX. 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  Three 
  new 
  Birds 
  from 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  

   Islands. 
  By 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  W2 
  

  

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