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Page. 

 Pterocles coronatus, near Fort Jumrood ... 296 



Erismatura leucocephala, near Loodhiana, Punjab... ib. 

 Letters to the Editor— 



Oalornis tytleri and CTirysococcyx maculatus at 



Madras— W. F. Dique ... ... 298 



A reply to Major Swinhoe. — E. A. Butler .- ib. 



Birds Nesting in Southern Travancore.— T. P. 



Bouedillon ... ... ... 299 



Nidification of Graptocephalus davisoni, Hume. — 



Eugene W. Oates ... ... ... 300 



Nos. 5 & 6.— September 1881. 



The Birds of Gilgit, by Major John Biddulph (a reprint, 



with Notes, from the Ibis) ... ... ... 302 



A Tentative Catalogue op the Birds of the Deccan 

 and South Mahbatta Country, by Captain E. A. 

 Butler, R. M.'s 83rd Begt. ... ' ... ... 367 



Passer pybbhonotus, Blyth ... ... ... 442 



Dumeticola bbunneipectus, Blyth, by W. Edwin Brooks... 445 

 Pebnis Tweedalti, Hume, by J. H. Gurney, {Note on a 

 Malayan species of Pernis distinct from P. ptilorhyn- 

 clius) ... ... ... ... ... 446 



A List of Birds observed in the neighbourhood of 



Chaman, S. Afghanistan, by H. E. Barnes ... 449 



Novelties.— 



CallopTiasis Jiumice, Sp. Nov. ... ... 461 



Perdicula manipurensis, Sp. Nov. ... ... 467 



Additional Notes on the Nidification of Birds in 



British Bubma ... ... ... ... 471 



Notes, chiefly Oological, from North- West Ceylon, 



by H. Parker, C.E. ... ... ... 475 



The Birds op the Lucknow Civil Division, by Geo. 



Reid {Part I) ... ... ... ... 491 



Notes — 



Pratincola insignis,y*ro»? Gondah in Oudh ... 505 



Additional species from N. E. Cachar ... ib. 



Trochalopterum meridionale, of W. Blanford ... ib. 

 Letters to the Editor — 



Albinoids.— W. F. Dique ... ... 507 



Painted Snipe breeding in December.— A. Toues 508 

 Index .. ... ... ... ... i 



