CONTENTS OE NTJMBEB, XVI.—EIETH SEEIES. 
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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 Robert Ridgway, Curator 
Department of Birds, United States National Museum . 459 
XLII. On Empidochcmes fuscatus (Max.) and Empidonax brunneus , 
Ridgw. By Robert Ridgway .460 
XLIII. On the Species of the Genus Empidonax. By Robert 
Ribgway. 461 
XLIV. Ornithology in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. By 
Howard Saunders . ... . 468 
XLV. On a Collection of Birds front several little-known Islands 
of the West Indies. By Charles B. Cory . . . .471 
XLYI. On a Collection of Birds from Eao in the Persian Gulf. 
By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., E.Z.S., &c. With Notes 
by the Collector, W. D. Cumming .475 
XLYII. On a Collection of Birds from Bushire, in the Persian Gulf. 
By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.493 
XLYIII. A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in 
British Guiana. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 
(i Concluded .) (Plate XII.).499 
XLIX. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications :— 
77. The American Ornithologists’ Union Code and Check- 
List . ... 510 
78. ‘The Auk’ . . . ..% . 513 
79. The Bombay Natural History Society.) 
80. Brewster on Bird-Migration. j 4 
81. British Association’s Report on Migrations in 1885 . . . 515 
82. A. W. Butler on the Birds of Indiana.I 
83. Giglioli on the Birds of Italy.) 
84. Meyer on Birds from Emperor-William’s-Land .... 517 
85. ‘ Mittheilungen ’ of the Ornithological Union of Vienna • i r-i o 
86-87. Mojsisovics on Hungarian Birds.j 
88. ‘ Ornis,’ Vol. I. Nos. 2, 3.... ..[ 519 
89. Payne-Gallwey on Duck Decoys.j 
90. Radde’s Fauna and Flora of the South-western Caspian 
District.. 521 
91. Reyes on the Birds of Spain and Portugal. 
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