CONTENTS OF NUMBER XXIV. (continued). 



Pa;e 

 XLIII. Letters, Xotes and Extracts : — 



Letters from Messrs. T. II. Nelson, S. A. Buturlin, and 

 II. E. Dresser. The Alexander Trans-Afiican Expedition; 

 The Ruwenzori Expedition ; Mr. Neave's Expedition to N.E. 

 Rhodesia; Olfactory Organs of the Kiwi; The Cidilomian 

 Earthquake^ Is the Kea carnivorous ? ; -Mr. W. L. JSclater . 735 



Index of Scientific Names 743 



Index of Contents 763 



Titlepage, Preface, List of Members, Contents, List of Plates. 



Publications received since the issue of No. 23, Eighth 

 Series, and not noticed in the present Numder. 



96. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Niiove osservazioni sulla cattura della Fuliyula 



humei/eri Baed. nel Venelo. (Poll. Soc. Zool. Ital. 1906.) 



97. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Notizie sopra un ibridodi^4n«s boscas e Sptitula 



clypeata della Collezione Contarini. (Avicula, x.) 



98. Arrigoxi degli Oddi. N'ota sulla cattura di una Eniberiza aureola in 



Toscana. (Avicula, x.) 



99. Arrigoni dkgli Oddi. Note sul IV. Congresso Ornitologico Inter- 



nazionale tenutosi in Londra nel Giugno 19U5. (Atti R. 1st. Veneto d. 

 Sri. lxv.) 



100. < Avicultural Magazine.' (N. S. iv. nos. 10, 11.) 



101. ' Boletim do Museu Goeldi (Museu Paraense).' (Vol. iv. no. 4, 1900.) 



102. Brewster. The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts. 



(Mem. Nuttall Oruithol. (Tub, iv.) 



103. Chapman. The Birds of the Vicinity of New York City. (Amer. Mus. 



Journ. vi.) 



104. 'Emu.' (Vol. vi. pt. 1.) 



10-J. Jourdaix. On the Hybrids which have occurred in Great Britain between 



Black-game and Pheasant. (Zoologist, PJOb.) 

 100. LoNnberg. Contributions to the Fauna of S'Uith Georgia. — I. Taxonomic 



and Biological Notes on Vertebrates. (Kongl. Sveusk. Vetenskaps- Akad. 



Handl. 40.) 



107. M'Lean. The Pern-Bird of New Zealand (Sphenwaem pnnctutus). (Emu, 



vol. vi.) 



108. Palmer. Game Protection in 1905. (Yearbook Dept. Agric. 1905.) 



109. Palmer. Federal Game Protection : a five years' retrospect. (Yearbook 



Bept. Agric. 1905.) 



110. Palmer and Williams. Game Laws for 190G. (Farmers' Bull. No. 20-3. 



U.S-. Bept. Agric.) 



111. 'Philippine Journal of Science.' (Vol. i. no. 6.) 



112. PlaczVRE. Die Vogelwelt in ihren Beziehungen zu Insekten und ver- 



wandten Kleintiereii. (Wien, 1900.) 

 II.'!. Sarudny. Francolinus orientalis boydanori, subsp. n. (Oruithol. 

 Monatsb. 190b.) 



1 14. Sauudny and Loudon. Asio accipitrhvis pallidas, subsp. n. (Ornitndl. 



Monatsb. 190b.) 



115. Sciil'ster. Bie Flutwicklungsgeschiehte der Viigel. (Mitt. d. Oesterr. 



Reiehsb. f. Vogelk., Wien, Jahrg. vi.) 

 lib. St.ixham. The Birds of the British Islands. Part 2. (190G.) 



117. 'Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.' (Vol. 



xxxviii.) 



1 18. Tschusi /.u Scbmidhoffex. Einige Worte iiber deu Aarauer Laubvogel. 



(Orntthol. Beobachter, v.) 



119. Warren. Catalogues of some of the Collections on Exhibition at the 



Natal Government Museum. (First Report Natal Gov. Museum, 1906.) 

 120-. 'Zoological Record.' Aves. By R. Bowjjler Sbarjpe. (1906.) 



