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XXVI. On Sterna fuscafa Linne. By Tom Iredale, 

 M.B.O.U. (Plate XVI.) 436 



XXVII. The Distribution and Nidification of the Tubinares 

 in the North Atlantic Islands. By David A. Bannerman, B.A., 

 M.B.O.U., F.R.G.S. (Plate XVII.) 438 



XXVIII. Some Facts bearing on the Affinities oiSmitJiornis. 



By G. L. Bates, M.B.O.U. (Plate XVIII. and Text-figure 8.). 495 



XIX. Notes on some Species of the Genus Tludassogeron. 

 By T. Salvadori, Hon.M.Z.S. (Plate XIX.) 503 



XXX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Bryant on the Western Meadowlark ; Chandler on Areas of 

 Distribution and Extent of SpeciKc Modification ; Chandler 

 on the Plumage of Circus htidsonmsj Chapman on new Neo- 

 tropical Birds ; Flower on Indian Zoological Gardens ; Grinnell 

 on Berkeley Birds ; Grinnell on the Birds of the lower Colorado 

 liiver ; Hartert's Paleearctic Bh'ds ; Howard's British War- 

 blers ; Baron Loudon's Fifth Journey to Central Asia; 

 Mathews on Australian Birds ; Phillips on Size Inheritance ; 

 Phillips on Birds from the Sudan ; Robinson on Malayan Birds ; 

 Salvadori and Festa on the Hawfinch of Sardinia ; Schalow 

 ou Muller's Calamoherpe hrelwiii; Schalow on the Nutcracker 

 in Thuringia ; Slresemaun on the Birds of Ceram ; Stresemann 

 on the History of the Paradise-bird ; Thayer and Bangs on 

 Siberian Birds ; Walpole-Bond on rare British Birds ; Aquila ; 

 Cassinia ; Journal S. African Ornithologists' Union ; The South 

 Australian Ornithologist ; and List of other Publications 

 received 506 



XXXI. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from Messrs. J. Lewis Bonhote, C. B, Ticehurst, 

 C. Boden Kloss, G. C. Lambert, D, A. Bannermann, and 

 W. C. Tait ; A Naumann Museum in Cothen ; Disputed 

 Questions in Nomenclature ; An Apology 528 



