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Alphabetical List of Contributors .



Jones, Major H.


♦Habits of the Cuckoo, 45


Littek, Miss C. Rosa


♦Swainson’s Lorikeet Nesting, 105


Meade-Waedo, K. G. B.


♦Wood-Swallows killing Mice, 189

♦The Tropical Seed Finch, 189

Abbotts’ Rail, Rallus abbotti, 219


Newman, T. II., F.Z.S.


The Madagascar Turtle-Dove, Turtnrpicluralus, 79

The Kagu, r 19


January Meeting of the Council, 156

♦Duration of Incubation of Tuttur picluralus, 217

Nesting of the Partridge Bronzewing Pigeon, Geophaps scripla, 337


Percivae, W. G.


♦Bustards, 159


Phieeipps, Reginaed


h'eniale Regent Bird Assuming Male’s Plumage, 54

The Olive Finch, Phonipara lepida, with side glances at Phonipara

generally, etc., 163


The Black-cheeked Lovebird, Agapornis nigrigenis, 206

Breeding of the Black-cheeked Lovebird, Agapornis nigrigensis, 31S


ST. Quintin, W. H.


*Peat Moss for Birds, 105

♦Breeding Ravens, 218


♦The Use of Gentles as a Food for Birds, 240


Sen e it ken, Henry


♦The Trumpeter Bird, 104


♦The White-eyebrowed Wood-Swallow, 34S


Skth-Smith, I).


Stray Notes, 43


Avieultural Notes for the past Year, 69

British Birds in New Zealand, 71

♦Old Books with New Names, 77

♦Messrs. Payne and Wallace’s Collection, 1S6

Notes on my Visit to Australia, 287, 309


Birds of Paradise at the Zoological Gardens, 292

♦The Use of Gentles as Food for Birds, 296

♦Curassovvs breeding at the Zoological Gardens, 348



