CONTENTS OE NUMBER XIL—EOURTH SERIES. 
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XXII. A Contribution to the Ornithology of Asia Minor. By C. 
G. Daneord .261 
XXIII. Recent Observations, on the Parrots of the Genus Eclectus. 
By W. A. Forbes, F.Z.S. 274 
XXIY. Notes on a Collection of Birds made by Mr. E. C. Buxton in 
the district of Lampong, S.E. Sumatra. By Arthur, 
Marquess of Tweeddale, M.B.O.U. (Plates V. & YI.). 283 
XXY. Report on the Additions to the Collection of Birds in the 
British Museum in 1875 . 323 
XXYI. Notes on a ‘Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Mu¬ 
seum/ by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. Gurney 325 
XXYII. General Remarks on the Avifauna of Madagascar and the 
Mascarene Islands. By Dr. G. Hartlaub .334 
XXYIII. Description of a new Species of Calliste and of a new 
Humming-bird of the Genus Heliangelus . By A. von 
Pelzeln, Hon. Memb. B.O.U.337 
XXIX. Additional Notes on the Ornithology of the Republic of 
Transvaal. By Thomas Ayres. Communicated by 
John Henry Gurney. (Plate YII.).339 
XXX. Notes on the Avifauna of New Caledonia. By Edgar L. 
Layard, C.M.G., E.Z.S., &c., H.B.M. Consul, and E. 
Leopold C. Layard, Yice-Consul at Noumea .... 355 
XXXI. Notes on some Birds collected during the Exploration of 
the Ely River. By M. L. D’Albertis, C.M.Z.S. . . . 363 
XXXII. Notices of recent Publications:—• 
30. Baldwin’s ‘ Large and Small Game of Bengal 1 .372 
31. ‘ Yagrancy Acts ’.373 
32. Orton’s ‘Andes and the Amazon ’.373 
33. ‘ Log-letters from the Challenger ’.374 
34. ‘The Cruise of the Challenger’.374 
35. ‘ Stray Feathers ’.374 
36. Sharpe’s edition of Layard’s ‘ Birds of South Africa ’ . . . . 375 
37. Heuglin’s ‘ Journey in North-eastern Africa ’.375 
38. Elliot’s Monograph of the Hornbills.376 
39. Gould’s ‘Birds of New Guinea’.377 
40. Gould’s ‘Birds of Asia ’.377 
41. Rowley’s ‘ Ornithological Miscellany ’.378 
42. Beccari’s Account of the Playing-places of Amblyornis inomata. 379 
43. Salvador’s Recent Ornithological Papers ........ 379 
44. Barboza du Bocage’s Thirteenth List of African Birds .... 380 
45. Homeyer upon German Mammals and Birds.380 
46. Allen’s ‘Progress of Ornithology in the United States ’ . . . 381 
47. Pelzeln on Birds from Ecuador.383 
48. Pelzeln on Additions to the Imperial Museum at Yienna . . . 383 
49. Pelzeln’s Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 1875 . . . 384 
50. Baird’s ‘ Ornithology of Utah ’.384 
51. Major God win-Austen’s List of Birds from the Hills of the N.E. 
Frontier of India. 385 
X XX III. Letters, Announcements, &c.:—- 
Letters from the Marquess of Tweeddale (two), Edward R. Alston, 
T. M. Brewer, J. H. Gurney, jun., W. Edwin Brooks, J. H. Gurney, 
H. Schalow, and T. Salvadori; Roraima and its Mysteries ; Trans* 
lation of Miiller’s memoir on the Yoice-organs of the Passeres . . 385 
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