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CONTENTS. 
the islands of Bass’s Straits. From the Journal of Robert 
Elwes .397 
XLI. Notes on some of the Humming-birds of Ecuador 
figured in Mr. Gould’s Monograph. By Dr. William Jame¬ 
son of Quito, and Louis Eraser, Corr. Memb. Zool. Soc. . 399 
XLII. Review of Herr Badeker’s and Dr. Brewer’s 
Oological Works.400 
XLIIL On the Ornithology of Northern Africa. By the Rev. 
H.B. Tristram, M.A.,E.L.S. Part III. The Sahara (continued) 415 
XLIY. A List of the Tyrant-birds of Mexico, with de¬ 
scriptions of some new species. By Philip Lutlet Sclater, 
M.A. (Plate XIY.) .436 
XLY. Note on Pel’s Owl (S'cotopelia peli). By John 
Henrt Gurney, M.P., E.Z.S. (Plate XY.) ..... 445 
XLYI. Letter from Mr. Wallace concerning the Geo¬ 
graphical Distribution of Birds.449 
XLYII. Recent Ornithological publications. 
1. English publications :—Gould’s ‘Monograph of theHmn- 
ming-birds,’ pts.xvii.,xviii.; Gould’s Supplement to ‘The Birds 
of Australia,’ pt. iii.; Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society 1859, pt i.; Bree’s ‘ European Birds Annals of Na- 
turalHistory; Collingwood’s ‘Migration of Birds’ and ‘Fauna 
of Blackheath ’; E. Yernon Harcourt’s ‘ Sporting in Algeria’; 
The Zoologist, Osburn on the Birds of Jamaica.454 
2. French publications :—Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ; 
Malherbe’s ‘ Monographic des Pics ’ .457 
3. German , Dutch , and Russian publications :—Cabanis’ 
Journal fur Ornithologie; Naumannia, 1858, pts iv., v., vi.; 
Schlegel and Herklots’s ‘ Fauna von Nederland’; Hofman’s 
‘ Nordliche Ural ’.458 
4. American 'publications :—-Pacific R. R. Reports, vol. x.; 
Brewer’s ‘ N. American Oology ’; Report of the Smithsonian 
Institution for 1858 ; Proceedings of the Academy of Phila- 
phia for July.. 460 
XLYIII. Letters,*Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, 
&e. 
Mr. Edward Newton’s departure for the Mauritius; Mr. 
