5xxii CONTENTS. 



XVIII. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Page 



Letters from Messrs. Budolpli von Thanner, William 



Brewster, the Authors of the ' Hand-List of British Birds,' 



Count T. Salvadori, and Mr. G. M. Mathews. The Second 



Freiburg Moluccan Expedition ; The Alexandra Parrakeet 



(^Foli/telis aJexcmdrcB) ; The Pennant Collection; The Birds 



of Sinai ; The Museum at Brighton ; A " ringed " Swallow 



taken in Natal; The B.O.U. Second New Guinea Expedition ; 



The Annual Meeting of the B.O.U 330 



Number III., July. 



XIX. On a Small Collection of Birds from Henderson Island, 

 South Pacific. By W. R. Ogilvie-Geant. (Plate IX.). . . 343 



XX. The Birds of Hong Kong, Macao, and the West River 

 or Si Kiang in South-Eastern China, with special reference 

 to their Nidification and Seasonal Movements. — Part III. 

 (Conclusion and Appendix). By Lieutenant R. E. Vaughan, 

 R.N., M.B.O.U., and StaiF-Surgeon K. H. Jones, M.B., R.N., 

 E.Z.S., M.B.O.IJ 351 



XXI. The Evolution of Adaptation in Parasitic Cuckoos' 

 Eggs. By E. C. Stuart Baker, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U 384 



XXII. On the Linnean Names Strix fnnerea and Anser ery- 

 thro^nis, and on the Species which should be referred to them. 



By Dr. Einar Lonneeeg, of Stockholm 398 



XXIII. A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. — 

 Part II. By Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale . . . 402 



XXIY. Proceedings at the Annual General Meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 1U13 453 



