﻿CONTENTS 
  OF 
  NUMBER 
  XVIII. 
  (continued). 
  

  

  XXVIII. 
  Letters, 
  Extracts, 
  Notices, 
  and 
  Obituar)'. 
  

  

  Letters 
  from 
  Mr. 
  John 
  M. 
  Cook 
  ; 
  Prof. 
  R. 
  Collett 
  ; 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  G. 
  

   Fairbridge 
  ; 
  Count 
  T. 
  Salvadori 
  ; 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  0. 
  Forbes 
  ; 
  

   Mr. 
  John 
  Whitehead 
  ; 
  and 
  tlie 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild. 
  The 
  

   Preservation 
  of 
  the 
  Native 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand; 
  News 
  of 
  

   Ornithologists 
  Abroad 
  ; 
  The 
  flumming-birds 
  of 
  Paraguay 
  ; 
  

   The 
  yheathbill 
  in 
  Ireland 
  ; 
  New 
  British 
  Polar 
  Expedition. 
  

   Obituary 
  : 
  The 
  Rev. 
  F. 
  O. 
  Morris 
  ; 
  Henry 
  Whitely 
  . 
  , 
  . 
  275 
  

  

  Publications 
  received 
  since 
  the 
  issue 
  of 
  No. 
  17, 
  Sixth 
  Series, 
  

  

  AND 
  NOT 
  noticed 
  IN 
  THE 
  PKESENT 
  NuMBER. 
  

  

  21. 
  Actes 
  de 
  la 
  Soci^t^ 
  Scientifique 
  du 
  Chili. 
  (Tome 
  ii. 
  livr. 
  1, 
  2 
  ; 
  1892.) 
  

  

  22. 
  Annals 
  of 
  Scottish 
  Natural 
  History. 
  (No. 
  5, 
  January 
  1893.) 
  

  

  23. 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Curator 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  Comparative 
  Zoology 
  at 
  

   Harvard 
  College. 
  1891-92. 
  

  

  24. 
  ' 
  The 
  Auk.' 
  (Vol. 
  x. 
  no. 
  1.) 
  

  

  25. 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum. 
  (No. 
  40, 
  1892.) 
  

  

  26. 
  B&TTiKOFEH. 
  On 
  il/erM/aJamnica 
  and 
  its 
  nearest 
  Allies. 
  (Notes 
  Leyden 
  

   Mus. 
  XV. 
  p. 
  107.) 
  

  

  27. 
  BtJTTiKOFER. 
  A 
  Complementary 
  Note 
  to 
  my 
  Review 
  of 
  the 
  Genus 
  

   Rhipidura. 
  (Notes 
  Leyden 
  Mus. 
  xv. 
  p. 
  113.) 
  

  

  28. 
  Chapman. 
  Notes 
  on 
  Birds 
  and 
  Mammals 
  observed 
  near 
  Trinidad, 
  Cuba, 
  

   with 
  remarks 
  on 
  the 
  Origin 
  of 
  West-Indian 
  Bird-life. 
  (Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist, 
  

   iv. 
  p. 
  279.) 
  

  

  29. 
  FiNscn. 
  Erfahrungen 
  iiber 
  meine 
  " 
  Selecta-Hiihner 
  " 
  (Crevecceur- 
  

   Brahma). 
  (Mittheil. 
  ornith. 
  Ver. 
  Wien, 
  xvi. 
  pp. 
  261, 
  273 
  ; 
  1892.) 
  

  

  30. 
  Gordon. 
  Our 
  Country 
  Birds. 
  (8vo. 
  London, 
  1892.) 
  

  

  31. 
  Harvik-Brown. 
  Contributions 
  to 
  the 
  Fauna 
  of 
  the 
  Shetland 
  Isles. 
  

   (Annals 
  Scottish 
  N. 
  Hist. 
  no. 
  5, 
  p. 
  9 
  ; 
  1893.) 
  

  

  32. 
  Keeler. 
  Evolution 
  of 
  the 
  Colours 
  of 
  North-American 
  Birds. 
  (8vo. 
  

   San 
  Francisco, 
  1893.) 
  

  

  33. 
  KoENiG. 
  Zweiter 
  Beitrag 
  zur 
  Avifauna 
  von 
  Tunis. 
  (8vo. 
  Naumbur?, 
  

   1893.) 
  

  

  34. 
  Mittheilungen 
  des 
  ornith 
  ologischen 
  Vereines 
  in 
  Wien. 
  (Jahrg. 
  xvi. 
  

   nos. 
  22, 
  23, 
  Jahrg. 
  xvii. 
  nos. 
  1, 
  2.) 
  

  

  35. 
  Ornithologisches 
  Jahrbuch. 
  (Band 
  iii. 
  Heft 
  6.) 
  

  

  36. 
  Ornithologische 
  Monatsberichte. 
  (Band 
  i. 
  no. 
  1, 
  1893.) 
  

  

  37. 
  Salvadobi. 
  Descrizione 
  di 
  una 
  nuova 
  specie 
  di 
  Colombo 
  del 
  genere 
  

   Ptilopus. 
  (Bull. 
  Mus. 
  Zool. 
  ed 
  Anat. 
  Comp. 
  R. 
  Universita 
  Torino, 
  vii. 
  no. 
  135.) 
  

  

  38. 
  Shufeldt. 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  American 
  Bittern. 
  (Auk, 
  1893, 
  p. 
  77.) 
  

  

  39. 
  Shufeldt. 
  The 
  Systematic 
  Position 
  of 
  Humming-birds. 
  A 
  rejoinder 
  to 
  

   Mr. 
  Ridgway. 
  (Popular 
  Science 
  News, 
  Boston, 
  xxvii. 
  p. 
  3.) 
  

  

  40. 
  SouiiF. 
  Nest 
  and 
  Egg 
  of 
  Queen 
  Victoria's 
  Rifle 
  Bird. 
  (Proc. 
  R. 
  Soc. 
  

   Victoria, 
  1892.) 
  

  

  