CONTENTS.Page

XXV. On a new South American Jay of the Genus Cyanolyca. By W. L. ScLATEB, M.B.O.U. (Plate VIII.) 465

XXVI. Notes on the Ornithology of Malta. By G. Desi'ott, M.B.O.U. (Concluded from p. 349.) 466

XXVII. Birds in the Ancre Valley during the Winter of 191fS1917. By Lieutenant J. X. Kennedy, M.C., K.G.A., F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U. (Text-figure 4.) 526

XXVIII. Birds of the Suez Canal Zone' and Sinai Peninsula. By Captain A, W. Botd, M.C 539

XXIX. Further Notes on the Birds of the Province of Fohkien in South-east China. By J. D. D. La Touche, M.B.O.U. 557

XXX. The Birds of Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula, Shark Bay, Western Australia, 1916-17. By Thomas CartePv, M.B.O.U.; with Nomenclature and Kemarks by GBKGORi- M. Mathews, M.B.O.U. (Plates IX.-XI.J 564

XXXI. Some evidence corroborating the supposed Breeding of the Green Sandpiper in the British Isles. By H. W. BoBiNsoN, M.B.O.U 611

XXXII. Obituary: Emil August Goeldi; Godfrey Vassal Webster; Edward Pearson llamsay; Eric Brooke Dunlop; A. J. North 613

XXXIII. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications:—Allen's Autobiography and Bibliography; Bergtold on Incubation; Brooks on Falkland Island Birds; Buturlin on the Nuthatches; Chapman on Brent Geese; Dabbene on Ai'gentine Birds; Dixon on the Baird Sandpiper; Douglas on Irish Woodcock; Fuertes on tropical bird-song; Howell on the Birds of Californian Islands; Knroda's recent papers; Mathews on Australian Birds; Matthew and Granger on Diatryma; Mullens and Swann's Bibliography of British Ornithology; Ppters en a new Porto Ricau Bird; Poliakov on Siberian Birds; Swarth on AViliiamson's Sapsucker; Swenk on the Eskimo Curlew; Wetmore on a sexual character of the Ruddy Duck: Wetmore on the Birds of Culebra Island; Wetmore on the New Zealand Cuckoo; and List of other Ornithological Publications received 618

XXXIV. Letters, Extracts, and Notes:—Letters from The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, W. II. Workman, The Marquess of Tavistock, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, and Col. G. van II. Clarke G'iS Index of Scientific Names 645 Index of Contents 663 Titlepage, Dates of Issue of 'Ibis' for 1917, List of Members, Content, List of Plates, and List of Text-figures.

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