CONTENTS. 



VI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications :- 



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Bangs on some Siberian Birds ; Dabbene and Lillo on two 

 new Argentine Birds ; Gifford on the Birds of the Galapagos ; 

 Grinnell on new races of North- American Birds ; Gurney on 

 the Gannet ; Gyldenstolpe on Birds from Siam ; Heatherley 

 on the Peregrine ; La Touclie on the Birds of Chinwangtao, 

 China; Mathews on Australian Birds ; Mathews' New 

 Check-list of Australian Birds ; Mearns on new African 

 Birds; Millais' Diving Ducks; Reiser on tlie Great Spotted 

 Cuckoo ; Ridgway on Colour Nomenclature ; Stresemann on 

 Malayan Birds ; Swarth on the Arizona Bush-Tit ; Trevor- 

 Battye on Crete ; Witherby on the Book ; Migration Report 

 for 1912 ; The Auk ; Journal fiir Ornithologie ; Trans. New 

 Zealand Institute ; and List of other Publications received . . 139 



YII. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Letters from Messrs. J. Russell Kennedy, Henry 0. Forbes, 

 Philip W. Mimn, and George L. Bates ; The International 

 Commission of Zoological Nomenclature ; the Generic Name 

 Oxynotus Swains.; Wild Birds' Protection Act; Penguins 

 in South Georgia ; General Index to ' The Ibis ' ; Change in 

 the Method of Publication of 'The Ibis'; The Annual 

 Meetino- of the B. 0. U 166 



Number II., April. 



VIII. Some Notes on the Habits and Distribution of Para- 

 doxornis heutlci David. By Capt. Hubert Lynes, R N., 

 M.B.O.U. (Plates VII.-IX.) 177 



IX. Notes on Birds observed in the Bermuda Islands during 



the V/inter 1912-1913. By John Noble Kennedy, R.N. . . 185 



X. Notes on a Collection of Birds from Sierra Leone. By 

 Major H. J. Kelsall, R.A., M.B.O.U. (Plate X. and Text- 

 figures 1, 2.) 192 



