CONTENTS OF NUMBER XV. (continued). 
68. Pelzeln on Birds from Ecuador . 
64. Pelzeln on Birds from Borneo No aren heist i 
65. Ramsay on Birds from New Guinea... . . 
66. Reichenow on Foreign Cage-Birds 
67. Sclater’s ‘Jacamars and Puff-birds’ .. . 
68. Taczanowsli on the Birds of Askold Island . 
€9. Wolf’s Visit to the Galapagos . . . 
XXXVIII. Letters, Extracts, Announcements, &c. :— 
Letters from Dr. A. B. Meyer (2); Cormorant-fishing in 
China; Note on Chrysotis apophenica ; Death of Mr. 
Frank of Amsterdam; Mr. Forbes’s Expedition to Brazil; 
Continuation of Mr. Gould’s ‘ Humming-birds ;’ Acqui- 
sitions of the British Museum in the Class of Birds in 
1879-80; The Birds of Socotra; Mr. Ober’s new Expedi- 
tion to the Antilles; The Museum Godeffroy ; Eges of 
the Great Auk ; Short Notes from New Caledonia ; New 
Birds from Eastern Africa ; Salvadori’s ‘Papuan Orni- 
thology ;’ Note on Phylloscopus plumbettarsus ; Garrod 
Memorial ; List of Ornithological Works in course of 
Publication and Dates of last Parts issued ; Communica- 
tions, deferred, and!expectedi (2) 0.0). :-. ) Gets) Ode 
The Editors of ‘Tux Isis’ are glad to receive copies of Books 
and Papers of any sort relating to Ornithology, which will be duly 
noticed in this Journal. 
List or PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE ISSUE OF No. 14 anv 
NOT NOTICED IN THE PRESENT NUMBER. 
1. Dr Serys Lonecuamps. Sur la Classification des Oiseaux depuis Linné. 
8vo. Bruxelles, 1879. 
2. RercHENow und ScHaLow. Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gat- 
tungen und Arten. PartsI., II. (J. f. O. 1879.) 
3. Ripaway. Revision of Nomenclature of certain North-American Birds. 
(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1880.) 
4, Satvapori. Di alcune specie del genere Porphyrio. (Attid. R. Accad. 
Sci. Torino, xiv.) 
5. Satvapori. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. (Atti d. R. 
Accad. Sci. Torino, xiv.) 
6. Satvaport. Intorno alla Porzana moluccana, Wall., ed alla Gallinula 
ruficrissa, Gould. (Atti d. R. Accad. Sci. Torino, xiv.) 
7. Srrepa. Ueber den Bau und die Entwicklung der Bursa Fabricii. (Zeitsch.. 
f. wissensch. Zool. Bd. xxxiv.) 
8. HasweELu. Notes on the Anatomy of Birds. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. 
vol. iv.) 
9. Frnscu. Reise nach West-Sibirien in Jahre 1576. (Verh. d. k.k. zool.- 
botan. Gesell. Wien.) : 
10. FREKE. Comparative Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and North 
America. (Proc. R. Dublin Soc.) 
11. Sennerr. Further Notes on the Ornithology of the lower Rio Grande 
and Texas. (Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. v. pp. 371-440.) 
12. Sanvaport. Osservazioni intorno ad alcune specie del genere Collocalia, 
G. R. Gray. (Atti R. Ac. Tor. xv. pp. 843-350.) 
13. Goutp. Description of two new Humming-birds from Bolivia. (Ann. & 
-Mag. N. H. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 488.) 
14, Harviz Brown. ‘The Shiant Islands and their Bird-life. (Trans. Nort. 
& Norw. Nat. Soe. iii. pp. 47-60.) 
15. Harvie Brown and CorpEaux. Report on the Nidification of Birds in 
the Autumn of 1879. (Zoologist, 1880, pp. ») 
16. Pascor. Zoological Classification. Second edition. 
17. Jonrs & Suurze. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of 
Ohio. Parts I-IV. 
