The Humming Bird. 



Pages . 



List of birds collected, by Mr Hardy at Porto-Real, Brazil 

 with description of one supposed new species, by 



Messrs Boucard and Count Berlepsch 41 



Description of a supposed new species of the genus Manti- 

 cora, « Cicindelid^e » from Damara Land, South Africa, 



by A. Boucard 45 



Description d'une espèce nouvelle de Diptère parasite de 



Costa Rica, Ornithomyia genic lata, par M. J. Bigot . . 49 

 The Completion of the Panama Canal, by A. Boucard. . 50-57 

 A complete list, up to date, of the Humming Birds found 

 in Columbia, with descriptions of several supposed new 



species, by A. Boucard 73 



Christopher Columbus . 89 



Festivities and Exhibitions, held in honour of Christopher 

 Columbus in America, Spain, Italy and France .... 92-120 



America, by A. Boucard 105 



Le Canal de Panama, by A. Boucard 120 



International Exhibition in Monaco 122 



A new Emission of Postage Stamps . . 123 



REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS . . 123 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithso- 

 nian institution, 1890 1891 124 



Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Vol . XX, 1891 . 124 



Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum Vol. XVI, 1892. 124 



Catalogue of Birds in thé Britich Museum. Vol XXII, 1892. 126 



Zoological Record, Vol XXVIII, 1892 . 126 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1892. 127 

 The Ibis, Vol. IV, Sixth Series, 18 ->2 ... .128 



Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France, Vol. V, 1892. 129 

 Memorias y Revista de la Sociedad cientifica, Antonio 



Alzate, 1892 130 



Actes de la Société scientifique du Chili. Vol. 1, 1892. 130 



The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 181 2 1b0 



OTHLR PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 130 



OBITUARY 131 



August von Pelzen 131 



Dom Pedro d'Alcantara 132 



M. Alphand 132 



Monseigneur Freppel 133 



Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau 133 



Duke of Clarence 134 



Henry Walter Bates 24, 26, 134 



Etienne Arago 134 



Hermann-Charles Burmeister 134 



Carl-August Dohrn 1.15 



Marshal da Fonseca .... 135 



Ernest Renan 135 



Alfred Tennyson 136 



Xavier Marmier 136 



GENERA OF HUMMING BIRDS, by A. Boucard 1 56 



