CONTENTS OF NUMBER XIV. (continued). 
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45. Menzbier on the Posthumous Works of Severtzofif . . . 197 
46. ‘The Naturalist’.198 
47. Newton’s Memoir of the late John Scales.199 
48. Olphe-Galliard on the Birds of Western Europe . . . .) qqq 
49. Palacky on the Distribution of Birds.( 
50. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidse.] 
51. Smithsonian Report for 1883 .( 201 
52. Stejneger on the Birds of the Commander Islands andf 
Kamtschatka. j 
53. Taczanowski’s Ornithology of Peru.202 
XXYI. Letters, Announcements, &c.:— 
Letters from Mr. W. Davison, Dr. Gadow, Dr. Giinther, and 
Mr. W. E. Brooks; Science in Indiana; The Abundance of 
Quails last year; The Generic Term Simorhynchus ; The 
Wings of Birds; The British Association Migration Com¬ 
mittee ; Habits of the Rufous-backed Humming-bird ( Selas - 
jphorus rufus) ; New Birds from Celebes; New and Recent 
Expeditions.203 
Publications received since the issue of No. 13 , Fifth Series, 
AND NOT NOTICED IN THE PRESENT NUMBER. 
14. Annalen des k.-k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, redigirt von Dr. Franz 
Ritter von Hauer. Band i. no. 1. 
15. Bericht iiber die Yerwaltung der koniglichen Sammlungen fur Kunst 
und Wissenschaft zu Dresden in den Jahren 1882 und 1883. (4to, 1885.) 
16. Blasius. Die Raubvogel von Cochabamba. (Mitth. d. ornithol. Yer. 
1884, no. 9.) 
17. Blasius. Osteologische Studien (Messungs-Methoden an Vogel-Ske- 
letten). (J. f. 0. 1885, p. 409.) 
18. Blasius. Ueber einige Vogel von Cochabamba in Bolivia. (J. f. 0. 
1885, p. 416.) 
19. Blasius. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Yogelfauna von Celebes.—I. 
(Zeitsch. f. d. ges. Ornith. 1885, Heft iii.) 
20. Boeck. Ornis des Thales von Cochabamba in Bolivia. (Mitth. d. 
ornithol. Ver. 1884, nos. 7, 11.) 
21. The Canadian Record of Science. (Vol. ii. no. 1.) 
22. Finsch und Meyer. Vogel von Neu-Guinea. Parts i., ii. (Zeitsch. f. 
d. ges. Ornith. 1886, Heft 1.) 
23. Hancock. Note on the Habit of the young Cuckoo in ejecting the Eggs 
and Young of its Foster-parent from the Nest. (N. H. Trans, of Northumb., 
Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, vol. viii.) 
24. Jahresbericht (1883) des Ausschusses fur Beobachtungsstationen der 
Vogel Deutschlands. (J. f. 0. 1885, p. 225.) 
25. Lawrence. Characters of two supposed new Species of Birds from 
Yucatan. (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. no. 9.) 
26. Lwoef. Beitrage zur Histologie des Haares, der Borste, des Stachels 
und der Feder. (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, pt. i. p. 141.) 
27. Mittheilungen des ornithologischen Yereines in Wien. (Section fur 
Vogelkunde, &c. 1885, Jahr. 9, Nos. 29-32; 1886, Jahr. 10, Nos. 1-5.) 
28. Random Notes on Natural History. Yol. iii. no. 2. 
29. Schalow. Die Musophagidse. (J. f. 0. 1886, p. 1.) 
30. Shufeldt. The Skeleton in Geococcyx. (Journ. Anat. & Phys., Jan. 
1886.) 
31. Vorderman. Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Avifauna van den Berg Salak 
(West-Java). (Natuurk. Tijdsch. v. Nederl. Indie, Dl. xlv. Afl. 3.) 
