CONTENTS. 



Pratt, John 



Albino water rat, 4074 

 Eake, N. Beaven 



Nesting of the tree sparrow, 4154 

 Bandall, W. Sidney 



The common gull in captivity, 4129 

 Eickards, Marcus S. C, F.L.S. 

 Pomarine skua in North Devon, 

 4240; Kichardson's skua near 

 Clevedon and at Instow, 4241 

 Egberts, George 



Communications and extracts con- 

 cerning the marsh sandpiper, 

 4054 

 BoBiNsoN, Eev. E. 



White woodcock in Ireland, 3915 

 EoDD, Edward Hearle 



White's thrush near Grampound, 

 Cornwall, 3880; Garganey teal 

 at the Land's End, 3953 ; Spring 

 migrants, 3997 ; A vegetarian cat, 

 4031 ; Spring migration of the 

 British warblers, 4032; Varia- 

 tion in the song of the blackcap 

 warbler, 4075 ; Pratincole at the 

 Lizard, Cornwall, 4077; Mon- 

 tagu's harrier, 4153; 13uflfon's 

 skua near Falmouth, 4239 ; 

 Woodcocks in the Scilly Isles, 

 4260 ; Greater shearwater on the 

 Cornish coast, 4261 

 Eope, G. T. 



Notes from Leiston, Suffolk, 8865 ; 

 Early nesting of the sky lark, 

 4034; Nesting of the garganey 

 and wUd duck, 4036 

 Saunders, Howard 



Spawning of flying-fish, 3838 

 Saxby, Rev. S. H., M.A. 



Ornithological query, 4116 

 ScLATER, John 



Notes from Castle Eden, 4006, 4221 

 Smith, Cecil 



Eing ouzel, &c., at Exmouth, 3831 ; 

 Ornithological notes from Somer- 

 setsliire, 3868; The black gan- 

 net, 4239 



Smith, Joseph, M.E.C.S., F.L.S., &c. 



Notes on a mongoose, 4183 

 Stafford, William 

 Large snake at Godalming, 3837 

 Hobby at Godalming, Black red 

 start near Godahniug, 3997 

 Wood pigeons laying in January, 

 3998 ; Cuckoo in confinement 

 4035 

 Stevenson, H., F.L.S. 



Ornithological notes fi-om Norfolk, 

 3859, 4185 ; Dartford warbler in 

 Suffolk, 3914 

 Sweet APPLE, Edward 

 English sparrows in Pliiladelplua, 

 4197 ; An old tortoise, 4242 

 Tatton, T. E. 

 Cm-ious nesting-place of the gi'eater 

 tit, 4070 

 Taylor, W. 



Caspian tern at Bh-mingham, 4036; 

 Black gannet, 4199 

 Thomas, W. 

 Yellow wagtail and wild goose near 

 Guildford, 4118 

 Tuck, Julian G. 



Birds in Cambridge Market, 4116 

 Walker, Eev. F. A., M.A., F.L.S. 

 Notes on the Lido, Torcello, and 

 the Pineta, 3977 

 Wallis, Henry INIarriage 



Fossils from recent deposits in the 

 Valley of the Thames, 3995; 

 How the puffin ascends to its 

 nest, 4118 

 Wharton, C. Bygrave 



Nesting of the blue tit, 4034 

 Whitaker, J. 



Siskins near Mansfield, 8880; 

 Egyptian geese in Nottingham- 

 shire, 3882; Ducks breeding on 

 the llainworth Water, 4159 ; Ar- 

 rival of spring bh'ds in Notting- 

 liamshh-e, 4196 ; Chiffchaff, swift 

 and fieldfare, 4197 ; BartaUed 

 godwit in Nottinghamshire, 4199 ; 

 AVhite swallow, 4238 



