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XXY. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Arrigoni and Damiani on the Birds of the Tuscan Islands ; 

 Dabbene on the Birds of Paraguay ; Griunell on the Band- 

 tailed Pigeon ; Hartert on Unfigured Birds ; Hellmayr on 

 the Birds of Lower Amazonia; Ingram on the Portuguese 

 Long-tailed Tit ; Menegaux on European Birds ; Mathews' 

 Birds of Australia ; Millais' Diving Ducks ; North on 

 Australian Nests aud Eggs ; Oberholser on the Great Blue 

 Heron ; Oberholser on New Birds from Sumatra aud its 

 Islands ; Ogilvie-Grant on the Birds' Eggs of the British 

 Museum ; Pycraft on Palceocovax moriorum ; Robinson on the 

 Eider ; Rothschild and Hartert on Birds from New Guinea ; 

 Rothschild and Hartert on their Algerian Journeys ; Salva- 

 dori on the Parrots allied to Conurus cBvuginosus ; Salvador! 

 on a new European Bird ; Salvador! and Festa on the Sardinian 

 Jay ; Sassi on Collections from Mesopotamia and Central 

 Africa ; Stone on Colour-Characters ; Swann on Bird-Names ; 

 Taylor on Dominancy ; Trotter on the Faunal Regions of 

 North America ; Tschusi on Austro-Hungarian Avian Litera- 

 ture; Aquila; Austral Avian Record ; British Birds; Cassinia 

 for 1912 ; Journal S. African Orn. Uniou ; aud List of other 

 Publications received 457 



XXVI. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Mr. Bannerman's Expedition to the Canary Islands ; The 

 Return of Dr. WoUaston's New Guinea Expedition ; Bird 

 Protection in the United States ; Life-History of North 

 American Birds ; ' The Emu ' in London 483 



Number IV,, October. 



XXVII. Notes on Birds around Mpumu, Uganda. By 



L. M. Seth-Smith, B.A., M.B.O.U. (Plates X. & XL). . '. 485 



XXVIII. A Visit to Babel Island, the Nesting- place of 

 Piiffiims tenuirostris brevicavxlus Gould. By C. E. Cole , . £09 



XXIX. Corrections to the ' Catalogue of the Collection of 

 Birds' Eggs in the British Museum.' By the Rev. F. C. 11. 

 JouEDAiN, M.A., M.B.O.U 513 



