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INHEX OF CONTENTS. 



Meade-Waldo, E. G. B., on the destruc- 

 tion of bird-life in Great Britain, 

 643. 



Meek, A., on the birds collected on St. 

 Aignan Island by, noticed, 204. 



Meinertzhagen, D., and Hornby, R. P., 

 ' Bird-life in an Arctic Spring,' no- 

 ticed, 388. 



Mercerat, A., on the Stereornithes, 

 noticed, 553. 



Mexico, on new birds from North- 

 western, noticed, 211. 



Migration, Herman on, noticed, 207; 

 at Irish Light-Stations, noticed, (377. 



Milne-Edwards, A., obituarial notice of, 

 563. 



Mivart, St. G., obituarial notice of, 

 5G2. 



Monk, T. J., notice of death of, 220 ; 

 obituarial notice of, 402. 



Montana, on the migration of Phala- 

 ropes in, 67. 



Moult, on the birds', 404 ; on the sum- 

 mer moult of Ducks, noticed, 690. 



Mozambique, on a collection of birds 

 obtained by Mr. Cavendish in, 109. 



Munich, Report of the Ornithological 

 Society of, noticed, 388. 



Musters, P., exhibition of a pair of 

 Ansererythropus obtained in Norway 

 by, 375. 



Nansen, F., and Collett, R., ' The Nor- 

 wegian North Polar Expedition, 1893 

 -96,' noticed, 554. 



Natal, on the birds of, noticed, 216. 



National Collection of Birds, progress 

 of the, 696. 



Negros Island, on birds from, 351. 



Nelson, E. W., on new birds from 

 North-western Mexico, noticed, 211. 



Nesting-boxes, exhibition of some birds', 

 376. 



Nests, description of some New Guinea 

 birds', 612 ; on Australian birds', 

 noticed, 685. 



Neumann, O., on the genus Sigmodus, 

 noticed, 685 ; revision of the African 

 Bush-Shrikes, noticed, 685. 



New Forest, on the preservation of 

 birds in the, 544. 



New Guinea, on Biro's birds from, 

 noticed, 210; on rare birds froui, 

 noticed, 212 ; description of some 

 nests and eggs from, 612. 



New Hebrides, on Capt. Farquhar's 

 birds from the, 337, 364 ; ornitholo- 

 gical notes in the, 607. 



New Zealand, on the ornithology of, 

 noticed, 201. 



Nile, on the birds collected during the 

 Lovat Expedition to the Blue, 115, 

 304 ; Garstin's Expedition to the 

 White, 402. 



Noble, H., exhibition of eggs of the 

 Spine-tailed Swift and of the nest, 

 eggs, and nestlings of White's Thrush, 

 377. 



North, A. J., description of a new 

 Honey-eater from N. Queensland, 

 noticed, 389 ; description of the nest 

 and eggs of Microeea pallida, noticed, 

 389 ; notice of his new work on the 

 eggs of Australian birds, 571 ; on 

 nests and eggs of Australian birds, 

 noticed, (585. 



Nurthcott, H. P., exhibition of birds 

 obtained at Gambaga, Gold Coast 

 Colony, by, 183 ; note on the death 

 of, 361. 



Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 

 noticed, 554. 



Notes of Wild Birds, Witchell ou, 

 noticed, 216. 



Novaya Zemlya, two summer voyages 

 to, noticed, 390. 



Noxious birds, on the danger of intro- 

 ducing, noticed, 557. 



Oates, E. W., note on the progress of 

 his new Catalogue of Eggs, 572. 



Oberholser, H. C., on birds from the 

 Cameroons, noticed, 389; on birds 

 collected by R. P. Currie in Liberia, 

 noticed, 389 ; some untenable names 

 in Ornithology', noticed, 555 ; on 

 birds from Santa Barbara Islands, 

 noticed, 686 ; on birds collected by 

 Dr. Abbott in Central Asia, noticed, 

 686 ; on birds from Madagascar, 

 noticed, 687. 



Oldham, C, and Coward, T. A., 'The 

 Birds of Cheshire,' noticed, 679. 



Olive, E., on the birds obtained on the 

 Katherine River by, noticed, 387 : 

 field-notes on the birds of Cooktown 

 and Cairns, North Queensland, 617. 



Osgood, W. H., on Chamaaa fasciata, 

 noticed, 390. 



Ostrich, on the pairing and incubation 

 of the, 219. 



Oustalet, E., on birds from the Eschiras, 

 W. Africa, noticed, 556 ; on some 

 birds from W. China, noticed, ,556 ; 

 on the birds of Dahomey, noticed, 

 556 ; on the birds of Cambogia, Laos, 

 Annam, and Tonquin, noticed, 557. 



Palmer, T. S., on the danger of intro- 

 ducing noxious birds, noticed, 557. 



