X CONTENTS. 



Page 

 XXII. Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, 



&c. :— 



Letters from Messrs. Swinhoe, C. B. "Wharton, P. L. Selater, 

 and J. H. Gurney : Dr. Hartlaiib's Description of Chalcojpelia 

 brehmeri : Mr. Sclater's note on Dendroeca chrysoparia : Occur- 

 rence of Anthus rupestris in England : Specimen of Hhodostethia 

 rossi: Supposed Identity of Corethrura guatemalensis and C. 

 ruh'a : Mr. Edward Newton on Similarity of Birds' Names in 

 Zambesia and Madagascar: Announcement of Mr. Gould's 

 * Handbook of the Birds of AustraKa :' Mr. R. Kennicott's De- 

 parture for Russian America : Mr. Frederick Godman's Depar- 

 ture for the Azores : Deaths of Mr. W. S, Macleay and Sir 

 Robert Schomburgk * 230 



Ntjmbek III., July. 



XXIII. On the Ornithology of Palestine. Part II. By the 

 Rev. H. B. Tbisteam, M.A., E.L.S., C.M.Z.S. 241 



XXIV. A Seventh additional List of Birds from Natal. By 



J. H. GiTENEY, M.P., F.Z.S 263 



XXY. Notes on some of the Birds inhabiting the Southern 

 Ocean. By Captain E. W. Hutton, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 

 F.G.S., Deputy- Assistant Quartermaster- General at Dublin . 276 



XXYI. Notes on Birds breeding in the Neighbourhood of 

 Sydney. By Edwaed P. Ramsay 298 



XXYII. Notes on Kriiper's Nuthatch, and on the other known 

 Species of the genus Sitta. By P. L. Sclatee, F.R.S,, &c. 

 (Plate VII.) 306 



XXVIII. Notes on the^Birds of Southern Texas. By H. E. 

 Deessee 312 



XXIX. On an apparently undescribed Bird from the SeycheUe 

 Islands. By Alfeed Newton, M.A., F.L.S., &c. (Plate 

 VIII.) 331 



