CONTENTS. 



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 VIII. Some Notes on the Habits and Distribution of Paradoxornis 

 heudei David. By Capt. Hubekt Lines, R.N., M.B.O.U. 



(Plates VII.-IX.) 177 



IX. Notes on Birds observed in the Bermuda Islands during the 



Winter 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 



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 



Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale, (Plate XI.) . 293 



XIII. The Moults and Plumages of the Common Moorhen (G'aZ/?*- 



nula cMoropus Linn.). By C. H. B. Grant. (Text- 

 figure 3.) 298 



XIV. Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of the Chiffchaff 



and Willow-Warbler. By Capt. Hubert Lynes, R.N., 



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



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

 American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



(Text-figure 4.) 315 



XVI. A Flock of Tubinares, By Robert Cdshman Murphy, Ph.B., 



Brooklyn Museum, New York City. (Text-figure 5.) . 317 

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



Dr. A. GljNTHER 319 



XVIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications : — 



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

 Brasil on the King Island Emu ; Faxon on Brewster's 

 Warbler ; Fleming on the Birds of Toronto ; Flower on 

 the Zoological Service in Egypt ; Grinnell and Swarth on 

 the Avifauna of the San Jacinto Mts. ; Gurnej^'s Norfolk 

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

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

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

 new Lark ; Rothschild and Hartert on New Guinea Birds ; ^ 

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

 a Bibliography of his Writings ; Shufeldt on Fossil Birds ; 

 Swarth on Californian Geese ; Thomson on Bird-niarking 

 in Scotland ; Todd on new Neotropical Birds ; Tschusi on 

 Austro-Hungariau Ornithology; Tyler on the Birds of 

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

 Birds of Holland; Vaucher on the Greek Partridge of 

 Canton Ticino ; Annals of the Cyprus Nat. Hist. Soc. ; 

 Bird Notes ; The Condor ; Le Gerfaut ; Irish Naturalist ; 

 Jaarbericht Nederlandsche Vogelkundigen ; Messager Orni- 

 thologique ; Ornithologisches Jahrbuch ; Die Schwalbe ; 

 The Scottish Naturalist; and List of other Publications 

 received 325 



XIX. Letters, Extracts, and Notes : — 



Lettei's from William Brewster, Frank E. Beddard, 

 P. Chalmers Mitchell, J. H. Gurney, and Edward 

 Bidwell. The Annual General Meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, 1914. The Plumage Bill .... 353 



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