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XI. An Ornithological Expedition to the Eastern Canary 

 Islands.— Part II. By David A. Bannerman, B.A., M.B.O.U., 

 F.R.G.S 228 



XII. Description of a strange New Zealand Wood-Hen. By 

 Gkegorx M. Mathews and Tom Ikedale. (Plate XI.) . . 293 



XIII. The Moults and Plumages of the Common Moorhen 

 (GalUnula cJiloropus Linn.). By C. H. B. Grant. (Text- 

 figure 3.) 298 



XIV. Bemarks on the Geographical Distribution of the 

 ChifFchafF and Willow- Warbler. By Capt. Hubert Lynes, 

 EX., M.B.O.U. (Plate XII.) , . . . 304 



XV. Size in the Avian Order Tubinares. By J. T. XicnoLs, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 

 (Text-ligure 4.) 815 



XVI. A Flock of Tubinares. By Egbert Cushman Mituphy, 

 Ph.B., Brooklyn Museum, New Tork City, (Text-figure 5.) . 317 



XVII. Obituary. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, F. V. 

 McConkell, Dr. A. GCtnther 319 



XVIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Baker on Indian Pigeons ; Brasil on Shore and Sea Birds ; 

 Bi'asil on the King Island Emu ; Faxon on Brewster's 

 W^arbler ; Fleming on the Birds of Toronto ; Flower on 

 the Zoological Service in Egypt ; Griunell and Swarth on 

 the Avifauna of the San Jacinto Mts. ; Gurney's Norfolk 

 Bird-diary ; Lowe on Sea-birds ; Mearns on new African 

 Birds ; NicoU on the Egg of the Sudan Crowned Crane ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant on British Game-birds ; Ogilvie-Grant on a 

 new Lark ; Eothschild and Hartert on New Guinea Birds ; 

 Salvador! and Festa on the Birds of Ehodes ; Salvadori, 

 a Bibliography of his Writings ; Shufeldt on Fossil Birds ; 

 Swarth on Califoruian Geese ; Thomson on Bird-marking 

 in Scotland ; Todd on new Neotropical Birds ; Tschusi on 

 Austro-IIungarian Ornithology ; Tyler on the Birds of 

 Fresno, California ; Van Pelt Lechuer on the Eggs of the 



