CONTENTS OE NUMBER V.—EOURTH SERIES. 
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I. A Contribution to the Ornithology of Asia Minor. By C. G. 
Daneord. 1 
II. Notes on the Trochilidce. The Genus Thaumatias, By D. G. 
Elliot, E.E.S.E. &c. 35 
III. Eemarks on certain Species of Corvidce and Paradiseidce^ with 
a Description of an apparently new Species of Gyanoeoracc, 
By D. G. Elliot, E.E.S.E. &c. 54 
lY. Characters of a supposed new Species of South-American 
Thrush. By G. N. Lawrence. (Plate I.). 57 
V. Notes on the Birds of the Province of Buenos Ayres. By 
Henry Durneord . 58 
YI. Notes on the Dicruridce^ and on their Arrangement in the 
Catalogue of the CoUectiou in the British Museum. By 
Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, E.E.S.'. 69 
YII. Notes on a ‘Catalogue of the Aceipitres in the British Mu¬ 
seum,’ by E. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). (Plate II.) By I. 
H. Gurney. 84 
YIII. Notices of recent Publications :— 
1. ^Transactions of the New-Zealand Institute ’ 102 
^ 2. Lawrence on New Birds from the Island of Dominica. lOO 
3. Eidgway on the genus Leucosticte . 104 
4. Eidgway on the Birds of Guadalupe Island. 104 
5. Godwin-Austen on some species of Pellorneum and Poina- 
torhimcs, &c. 105 
6. Godmn-Austen on three new Species of Birds from Assam . . lOo 
7. Ilarvie-Brown on the Distribution of Birds in N. Eussia .... 106 
8. Barboza du Bocage’s ‘ Ornithology of Angola ’. 107 
9. Briiggemann on Birds from S.E. Borneo . 108 
10. Briiggemann on Birds from Celebes . 108 
11. Gould's ‘ Birds of New Guinea ’ . 109 
12. Gould’s ‘ Birds of Asia ’ . 109 
13. David and Oustalet’s ‘Birds of China ’ . 110 
14. D. G. Elliot and A. Eeichenow on the Ibises . Ill 
15. D. G. Elliot’s Descriptions of new Species of Birds. 113' 
IX. Letters, Announcements, &c.:— 
Letter from Mr. A. 0. Hume, C.B.; Eemarks thereon b}'- Editors 
and by Major Godwin-Austen; letters from Dr. T. M. Brewer 
(two), from Mr. J. H. Gurney (two), from Mr. A. 0. Hume, and 
from Mr. D. G. Elliot; Obituary of the late Mr. E. Swinhoe, E.E.S. 114 
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