iv. Index to Contributors. 



Editorials — continued. 



Avocets, The Nesting of, 117, 153 



The Night Parrot, 117 



Kare Birds, 117 



An Improved Insectivorous Food, 117 



Hatching of Redshanks, 154 



Nesting of INIalabar Starlings, 154 



Slaughter of Blue Jays, 153 



Do Birds desert young, 156 



The Kagu and Sun Bittern, 157 



A fine collection of Birds, 191 



A rare consignment of Neotropical Birds, 192 



Birds at Zoo, 194 



A New Hybrid, 196 



Mortalitj' among Newly Imported Birds, 196 



Breeding of Chingolo Sparrow, 197 



Toucan, 197 



Bronzewing x Magpie Mannikin Hybrid, 219 



Birds at Toddington Manor, 219 



Cutthroat x Ked-lieaded Finch Hybrid, 231, 254, 281 



Virginian x Grey Cardinal Hybrid, 222 



Some Notes on American Birds, 222 



Breeding Certificates, 225 



The Indian Blue Chat, 250 



The Red-breasted Marsh Bii-d, 252 



Nesting of Bullfinches and Pekin Robins, 253 



The Indian Zosterops, 253 



The Yellow- Kuniped Serin, 254 



The Pugnacity of Thrushes and Ouzels, 280 



Wintering Tanagers Out of Doors, 282 



Interesting Additions at the Zoo, 283 



Scaley-headed Weaver Bird, 310 



Breeding Swainson's I,orikeets, 312 



Bird Ferocity, 312 



Java Sparrow x Silverbill Hybrid, 313 



Indian Sun-birds, 314 



Fecundity of Budgerigars and Gouldians, 342 



The Berlin Bird Exhibition, 342 



A Colony of Tri-coloured Blackbirds, 343 



Fii,MER, Horatio R. 



* Delicacy of Firefinches, 120 



* Tlie Genus Sperviophila, 159 



* Long-tailed Grassfinches pairing with Parson Finches, 286 



Foster, w. h. 



Mr. P'oster's Aviaries, i 



GOODCHILD, H., M.B.O.U. 



The New Bird House at the Zoological Gardens, 52 

 Humming Birds at the Zoological Gardens, 102 



Gray, H., M.R.C.V.S. 



Notes on Avian Cholera, 181 



Post moiiein Reports, 32, 60, 88, 122, 1C2, 198, 226, 



256, 288, 320, 34<: 



