CONTENTS OF NUMBER XVI.—FOURTH SERIES. 
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Field-notes on the Birds of Denmark. By H. J. Exwxs . 385 
Remarks on the present State of the Systems Avium. By 
Pel SCbATER J... . 399 
Henry Durnrorp’s last Bxypedition i Teena ana Salta. 
GilanemaclT ings cus cs . 411 
Ornithological Letters fro ie Paci, Le IV. The 
Gilbert Islands, Kingsmill Group. By Orro Frvscu, Ph.D. 429 
Archeopterye macrura, an Intermediate Form between 
Birds and Reptiles. By Cart Voer, Professor in the 
University of Geneva. (Plate XIII.) . .. . . 434 
Description of a new Genus and Species of Owl from ie 
Seychelles Islands. By Canon H. B. Tristram, F.R.S. 
(Plate UV) ccs cenits . 456 
Remarks on two Species of Hate ee By E, ie Tee 
Elbe PAeVe) ace. . 459 
Note on Pachycephala ainits of if Rowen ane 0. Des 
Murs. By E. L. and E. L.C. Layarp . . . . 460 
Notes on a ‘Catalogue of Accipitres in the British Museame 
by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J.H.Gurnny . . 462 
On the Nesting in Confinement of the aes Owl. Py 
Jeb AGURNEY.; 2) dis . 471 
Notices of recent Onn ihe yee Papheaeeece = 
70. Cory’s ‘ Birds of the Bahamas’ . : 
71. De Selys-Longchamps on the Classification of Birds . 
72. Finsch on the Birds of Western Siberia 
5. Gould on two new Humming-birds from Bolivia . 
74. Gould’s ‘Supplement to the "Trochilidee ’ ce 
75. Gould’s ‘ Birds of New Guinea’ . 
76, Harvie-Brown on the Shiant Islands and their Bird-life 
77. Harvie-Brown and Cordeaux, ‘ Report on the Migra- 
tion of Birds’ . 
78. Jonesand Shultze, ‘Tllustrations of the Nests and \ Bes 
of the Birds of Ohio? ‘ | 
79. Ober’s ‘ Camps in the Ouulipees? 24) tk ee 
80. Pascoe’s ‘Zoological Classification’ oe : 
81. Reichenow and Schalow’s ‘ Compendium’ ; 
82. Ridgway’s ‘ Revision of the Nomenclature of certain 
North-American Birds’ ara) \ eat eeeltatey, batceaaaa 
83. Salvadori on the Genus Porphyrio . . 
84. Salvadori on the Ornithology of Papua and the Moluceas ee 
85. Salvadori on Porzana moluccana . 5 | 
86. Salvadori on certain Species of Collocalia ; r 
87. Sennett’s Notes on the epee: of the Lower Rio 
Grande of Texas. . .. Be J 
L, Letters, Extracts, Announcements, Reece — 
Index . 
Letter from Lord Lilford; Death of Dr. P. V. Lund. . . 480 
. 485 
Preface, List of Members: List of ies, ee 
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