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CONTENTS. 
Page 
62. Hancock on the Cuckoo.867 
63. Kingsley’s ‘ Standard Natural History’.368 
64. Lawrence on two new Birds from Yucatan . . . .370 
65. Lwoff on the Histology of Feathers.370 
66. Macpherson and Duckworth on the Birds of Cumberland 370 
67. Meyer’s Illustrations of Birds’ Skeletons . . . .371 
68. ‘ Mittheilungen’ of the Ornithological Union of Yienna 372 
69. Oustalet on new Birds from New Guinea .... 373 
70. Bandom Notes on Natural History.373 
71. Keport on the Dresden Museum of Art and Science . 373 
72. Beport on the Observing-stations of German Birds . 373 
73. Schalow’s Essay on the Touracoos.374 
74. Sclater on the Coerebidse, Tanagridae, and Icteridas . 375 
75. Shufeldt on the Skeleton of Gecococcyx .376 
76. Yorderman on the Birds of Mount Salak . . . .376 
XXXYIII. Letters, Announcements, &c.:— 
Letters from Count T. Salvadori, Herr A. von Pelzeln, Dr. G. 
Hartlaub, Mr. E. Cavendish Taylor, and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger; 
Beeves’s Pheasant at Home ; Badde’s Scientific Expedition in 
Transcaspia; Mr. H. 0. Forbes in New Guinea; News of Mr. H. 
H. Johnston; Bedi&covery of Platycercus unicolor; Anniversary 
Meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Union, 1886 ; Obituary— 
Prof. E. von Boeck, of Cochabamba ; and Heer Francois P. L. 
Pollen.377 
Number XVI., October . 
XXXIX. On the Wings of Birds. By C. J. Sundevall. 
(Plates X., XI.) ..\ . 389 
XL. Note on the Nestling Plumage of Gypoictinia melano- 
sternon (Gould). By John Henry Gurney .457 
XLI. Description of a new Species of the Genus Empidonax 
from Guatemala. By Bobert Bidgway, Curator Department 
of Birds, United States National Museum.459 
