CONTENTS. 



Page 

 I. JS'otes on the Nidification of some Birds from Burma, By 



Major H. H. Hakington, Indian Army. (Plate I.) . . . 1 



IT. Notes on Birds observed in Katanga, Belgian Congo, By 



L, Berespokd Moitritz, M,B.0.U 2G 



III, An Orinthological Expedition to the Eastern Canary Islands. 

 By Dayid a. Banneeman, B.A., M.B.O.U., E.Il.G.S, Part I. 

 (Plates Il.-VI.) 38 



lY. A List of the Birds of Melville Island, Northern Territory, 



Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews, M.B.O. XT 91 



Y. Obituary. Alfred Hussel Wallace ; Richard John Ussher ; 

 WiLi,iAM John Ansorge ; Ora Willis Knight; Anton 

 Eeitsch 133 



YI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



Bangs on some Siberian Birds; Dabbene and Lillo on two new 

 Argentine Biids ; Gifford on the Birds of the Galapagos; 

 Grinuell on new races of North-American Birds; Giirney on 

 the Gannet ; Gyldenstolpe on Birds from Siam ; Heatherley 

 on the Perogrine ; La Touche on the Bii'ds of Ohinwangtao, 

 China ; Mathews on Australian Birds ; Mathews' New 

 Check-list of Australian Birds; Mearns on new African 

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

 Cuckoo; Ridgway on Colour Nomenclature; Stresemann on 

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

 Battye on Crete ; Witherby on the Rook ; Migi-ation 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. Munn, and George L. Bates ; The International 

 Commission of Zoological Nomenclature; The Generic 

 name Oxynotus Swains. ; W^ild Birds Protection Act ; 

 Penguins in South Georgia ; General Index to ' The Ibis ' ; .: 

 Change in the method of Publication of 'The Ibis '; The ' 

 Annual Meeting of the B. 0. U . . . . . 166 



Communications intended for publication in 'The Ibis ' should be addressed 

 to tl.e Editor. 



Clambers are requested to inform the Secretary, c/o The Zoological Society 

 of London, Regent's Park, N.W., of any change of Address, so that the 

 Tuimbers of ' The Ibis ' may reach them without delay. 



