﻿Pa 
  ire 
  

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

   Nyassalaud. 
  By 
  Captain 
  G. 
  E. 
  Suelley, 
  F.Z.S. 
  With 
  a 
  

  

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

  

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

  

  American 
  Fin-foot 
  {Heliomis 
  surinamensis). 
  Jiy 
  Frank 
  E. 
  

  

  Peddard, 
  M.A., 
  F.ll.S., 
  Prosector 
  to 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  

  

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

  

  IIL 
  On 
  the 
  Extinct 
  Giant 
  Birds 
  of 
  Argentina. 
  By 
  11. 
  Lydekker. 
  40 
  

  

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

  

  Seebohm 
  ^-^ 
  

  

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

  

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

  

  TI. 
  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 
  

  

  li. 
  W. 
  SnuFELDT, 
  M.D., 
  C.M.Z.S 
  '.84 
  

  

  VIII. 
  Notes 
  on 
  Collecting 
  in 
  Kona, 
  Hawaii. 
  By 
  II. 
  C. 
  L. 
  Perkins, 
  B. 
  A 
  ! 
  101 
  

   IX. 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  Three 
  now 
  Birds 
  from 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  Islands. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  112 
  

  

  X. 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Ornithologists' 
  Club. 
  Nos. 
  I.-IEl. 
  . 
  114 
  

   XI. 
  Notices 
  of 
  recent 
  Ornithological 
  Publications: 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  Allen 
  on 
  the 
  Woodpeckers 
  of 
  North 
  America 
  124 
  

  

  2. 
  Allen 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  Venezuela 
  )' 
  

  

  3. 
  Allen 
  on 
  a 
  new 
  Gallinule 
  ! 
  | 
  ^^''' 
  

  

  4. 
  JJendire's 
  Life-Histories 
  of 
  North-American 
  Birds' 
  ,' 
  .' 
  .' 
  ( 
  

  

  h. 
  Bocage 
  on 
  liirds 
  from 
  Benguela 
  j 
  •''^*' 
  

  

  ^. 
  Bocage 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  Dahomey 
  1 
  

  

  7. 
  Buller 
  on 
  New-Zealand 
  Birds 
  " 
  > 
  1 
  27 
  

  

  8. 
  Buller 
  on 
  Apten/x 
  maxima 
  [ 
  

  

  5). 
  Biittikdfer 
  on 
  the 
  Genus 
  Tatare 
  i 
  

  

  10. 
  Biittikofer 
  on 
  Tlmmnokea 
  ni(]rn 
  128 
  

  

  11. 
  Biittikofer 
  on 
  Birds 
  frtim 
  Liberia 
  \ 
  \ 
  

  

  12. 
  Biittikofer 
  on 
  a 
  Sumatran 
  Weaver-bird 
  \ 
  

  

  13. 
  Biittikofer 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  Flores, 
  Sumb.i, 
  and 
  Rotti 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  f 
  ^ 
  

  

  14. 
  Cherrie 
  on 
  two 
  new 
  Tyrannidce 
  f 
  

  

  15. 
  Clarke's 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Great 
  Skua 
  ) 
  

  

  • 
  ]6. 
  CoUett 
  on 
  the 
  IJirds 
  of 
  Arctic 
  Ntu-way 
  130 
  

  

  17. 
  D'Urban 
  and 
  Mathew's 
  ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  Devon 
  ' 
  1,'U 
  

  

  18. 
  Evans 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Melrose 
  District 
  13:> 
  

  

  19. 
  Evans 
  on 
  the 
  Grebe 
  of 
  Ross-shire 
  1 
  

  

  20. 
  Forbes 
  on 
  Hxtinct 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  ( 
  J 
  83 
  

  

  21. 
  Forbes 
  on 
  Cyanorhamphus 
  eryfhrotis 
  j 
  

  

  22. 
  Godrnan 
  and 
  Salvia's 
  'Jiiologia 
  Centrali-Americana' 
  . 
  . 
  ( 
  ,.,, 
  

  

  23. 
  Hamilton 
  on 
  Moas' 
  Gizzard-stones 
  j^ 
  IM 
  

  

  24. 
  Hamilton 
  on 
  the 
  Genus 
  Aptornis 
  1 
  

  

  25. 
  Hartert 
  on 
  a 
  new 
  ^ft<racAosi'o?««s 
  '. 
  l;}.") 
  

  

  2(). 
  Hartlaub 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  China 
  i 
  

  

  27. 
  Harvie-Browu 
  and 
  Buckley 
  on 
  the 
  Fauna 
  of 
  Argyll 
  and 
  

  

  the 
  Inner 
  Hebrides 
  13(5 
  

  

  28. 
  lluttiin 
  on 
  the 
  Moas 
  I 
  

  

  29. 
  Junker's 
  Travels 
  in 
  Africa 
  ,137 
  

  

  30. 
  Macpherson 
  and 
  Ferguson's 
  'Vertebrate 
  Fauna 
  of 
  Lakeland.' 
  . 
  138 
  

  

  31. 
  Men-iam 
  on 
  Geographical 
  Distribution 
  in 
  North 
  America 
  . 
  . 
  13!> 
  

  

  32. 
  Meyer 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land 
  140 
  

  

  33. 
  Meyer 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Sumba 
  141 
  

  

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