CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



The Common Squirrel. By E. K. B 49 



Notes on the Cuckoo. By J, M' Intosh^ Esq 51 



Odds and Ends. By the Eev. R. P. Alington 55 



A Chapter on Instinct. By the Rev. F. 0. Morris 67 



The proposed increase of the Size and Price of "The Naturalist." 60 



Three Days in Caernarvonshire. By J. H, Davies, Esq 61 



Systema Naturae. By the Rev. F. 0. Morris 64 



Miscellaneous Notices. — To the Editor of '^The Naturalist." Oc- 

 currence of the Mealy Redpole at Hammersmith. The Lime 



Tree 67 



The Retrospect. — The Hawk 68 



The Querist. — Breeding and Rearing of Foreign and English Birds 

 in confinement. Spider and Fly. Answer to F. G. Bonney's 



Query in the December Number 71 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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donable,' read 'unfavourable.' Pago 41, for 'enfreogenous,' read 'cugeogcnous;' for 'mjyrometrica,' 

 read 'hi/i/romeMca.' Page 42, for 'cileata' read ^ciliata;' for 'anutangium,' read 'anictahgii 



'jium. 



^*^ Correspondents arc particularly requested to write the 

 names of persons, places, and things very distinctly. 



A box of insects has been received, with a note signed "H. S. 

 Wyndham," but without the address. I wish to thank the writer, 

 and take this mode of asking for it that I may do so. 



F. O. Morris. 



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