KNOWLEDGE. 



Okapi — 



Note on ICl 



Orion, The Belt and Sword of— 



By Alewndkb Smiiii... ... .. ... l:''! 



Ornithological Notes, British- 

 Auk'*, Groat, Egg ... ... ... ... 159 



Bird-Lifc in Norway ... ... ... ... 133 



Birds and the Production of Pearh — Lystor Jameson 110 



Bluethpoat, Wliit«.spott€d, in Kent— M. J. N'icoll ... 278 



Bunting, Cirl, in Ireland— H. E. Howad ... 255 



Bunting, Little, at Tees Moutli— C. E. Milburn ... 278 



Bunting, Rustic, in Sussex — X. F. Tieehiu^t ... 278 j 



Bustard, Great, near Cambridge ... ... 278 i 



Captirity, Birds in— A. G. Butler ... ... 2(i3 1 



Condor Laying in Confinement ... ... ... 159 



Crake, Carolina, in Tiree — ^E. Lort Phillips ... 16 



Creeper, The Wall, at the Zoo ... ... .. 85 



Creeper, The Wall, Moulting the Bill in ... ... 159 



Cuckoo, Tellow-billed, at Eingwood, Hants — G. B. 



Corbin ... ... ... ... ... 35 



Cuckoo, Yellow-billed, in Somersetshire — R. H. Read 16 

 Duck, The Ringed-necked, as a British Bird — O. V. 



Aplin ... ... .. ... ... 33 



Eggs, Obserrations on the Weights of Birds' — N. H. 



Foster ... ... ... ... ... 255 



Gallinule, Allen's, in Norfolk ... ... ... 85 



Geese, The British Bean ... ... .. 255 



Geese, The British White-fronted ... ... 254 



Goose, Grey-lag, in Ireland— F. Cobum .. ... 231 



Goose, White-fronted, Nesting in Captivity — F. W. 



Frohawk ... ... ... ... ...181,204 



Grebe, Eared, Possible Breeding of, in Oxfordshire 



—O.T. Aplin ... ... ... ... 62 



Gulls Killed while following the Plough— L. H. 



Irby ... ... ... ... ... 255 



Habits, Acquired, in WUd Birds— W. B. Tegetmeier 183 

 Hawfinch, On the Increase of the Starling and — 



H. E. Howard ... ... ... ... 35 



Hybrid, Peacock and Guinea-fowl — Walter Roths- 



chUd ... ... ... ... ... So 



Ibis, Glossy, in Hampshire and Sussex — Edward 



Buckell ■ ... ... ... ... ... 278 



Ibii, Glossy, in the SciUy Islands and in Hereford- 

 shire—Pratt ..." ... ... ... 255 



King-EiderinFifeshire- B. B. Eiriere .. ... 62 



Lark, White-winged, in Kent— X. F. Tieehui-st . 278 



Male Birds in Female Plumage— W. B. Tegetmeier 133 



Mallard, Changes of Plumage in the — J. G. Millais 85 

 Mayo and SUgo, Increase in the Numbers of 



Breeding Birds in —Robert Warren ... ... 255 



Migration, Bird— W. E. Clarke .. ... ... 133 



Nutcracker in Herefordsliire — H. E. Forrest ... 62 



Owl, Eagle, Longevity of — J. H. Gumey .. Ill 



Owl, Scops, in Kent — Collingwood Ingram ... 35 



Owl, Tengmalm's, in Suffolk- F. W. Frohawk ... 62 



Parrot, .A Puzzling— Waltor Eothschild ... ... 85 



Parrot, The Racket-tailed ... ... ... 204 



Penguin Footprints — E. B. Sharpe ... ... 158 



Penguin, The Life-history of the ... 158 



Penguins at the Zoological Gardens ... ... 133 



Phalarope, Red-necked, in Anglesea — T. A. Coward 



and Charles Oldham ... ... ... 278 



FASE 

 35 

 16 

 110 

 35 

 184 

 133 

 35 



255 



278 

 8.5 



33 

 110 



35 



Pipit, Red-throated, in Sussex — Ho ward Saunders... 



Pocliard, Baer's, in Hertfordshire— N. C. Rothschild 



Pollination by Birds ... 



Rail, Water, in London— F. R. Rat<-liff ... 



RheHs Breeding in Captivity 



Rook.- with Feathered Face? 



Sandpiper, Green, in the Outer Hebrides... 



Scotland, Report on the Movements and Occurrence 



of Birds iu—T. G. Laidlaw ... 

 Shrike, Lesser Grey, in Norfolk — G. E. Lodge 

 Snipe, A White 

 Snipe, Great, in Shetland and in Orkney — .T. A. 



Harne-Brown 

 Spoonbills in Norfolk — J. H. Gumey 

 Starling and Hawfinch, On the Increase of — 



H.E.Howard 



Starling Roost onCramond Island — Charles Campbell 35, 255 

 Starling, The, as Foster-Parent— W. Dunn ... 231 



Stork, Wliite, Nesting in Kew Gardens— Dr. GUnther 204 

 Swallow and Sand Martin, Early arrival of ... Ill 



Swift, Alpine, in Kent— H. S. D. Byron... ... 278 



Variation, Abrupt, in Tudiau Birds — Frank Finn ... 184 

 Warbler. Greenish Willow, in Scotland — Howard 



Saunders ... ... ... ... ... 278 



Warblers, Aquatic, in Sussex — L. Bonhote . . 278 



Waxwings in Scotland... ... .. ... 35 



Wheatear, Black-e.ired, in Sussex — W. Ruskin 



Butterfield... ... ... ... ... 231 



Wild Birds' Protection Acts ... ... ... 183 



Zoological Grardens, Noteworthy additions to ...184, 2<>1 



Ox, The Ancient Wild, of Europe, and its 

 Living Representatives — 



By E. Lydekker 



Parr, W. Alfred— 



The Arcetri Observatory, Florence 



Perfumes, Animal, and their Origin— 



By E. Lydekkee 



100 



77 



Perrine, C. D.- 



Origin of a Diaturbed Region Observed in the 

 Corona of 1901 BO 



Persei, Nova- 

 Letter on ; by Henry Ellis ... 



11 



Persei, Nova, The Progressive Spectrum of, 

 between February 22 and November 28, 

 1901— 

 By Rev. Walter Su<eBEAYEs ... ... 9 



Pickering, Edward C— 



Spectrum of Lightning 

 A New Algol Variable 



6 

 151 



