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CONTENTS. 



Habits of Parrots, 227 ; A visit 

 to Skomer Island, 433 

 Matthews, Eev. A., M.A. 

 Badger and Polecat in Leicester- 

 shire, 271 ; An amber-coloured 

 Mole, 271 

 Miller, H. 



Tit's nest in a railway carriage, 

 387 

 MiVART, Prof. St. George, F.E.S. 



Hands and feet, 281 

 Moor, E. Charles 



Nest of Harvest Mouse, 190; Great 

 Grey Shrike in Suffolk, 191 

 More, A. G., F.L.S. 



Greenland Falcon in Donegal, 31 ; 

 Bonito on coast of Galway, 31 

 MosELEY, Prof. H. N., M.A., F.K.S. 

 A carnivorous plant preying on 

 Vertebrata, 224 

 Nelson, T. H. 



Snipe perching, 28 ; Velvet Scoter 

 near Manchester, 143; Sooty 

 Shearwater at Redcar, 147 ; 

 Black Pomatorhine Skua at Bed- 

 car, 469 ; White Stork at Peveu- 

 sey, 489 

 Newton, Prof. A., M.A., F.R.S. 

 Origin of the name "Oyster- 

 catcher," 196 

 Noegate, Frank 



The Nightjar, 86 

 Palmer, J. E. 



Lapwing perching, 69 ; Method of 

 recordhig observations, 109 ; 

 Tufted Duck in Co. Kildare, 146 ; 

 Hooded Crow wading, 343 ; 

 Scarcity of summer birds in Co. 

 Kildare, 389 

 Parkin, Thomas, M.A., F.Z.S. 



Ruddy Sheldrake on Eomney 

 Marsh, 469 ; Dipper in Sussex, 

 471 

 Pengelly, William, F.R.S. 



Curious vai'ietj' of Guillemot, 71 

 Phillips, E. Cambridge, F.L.S. 

 Ornithological notes from Bi'econ- 

 shire, 144 ; On the origin of the 

 Domestic Cock, 327 ; The birds 

 of Pembrokeshire, 381 ; White 

 Carrion Crow, 385 ; Black Game 

 in Pembrokeshire, 431 ; A sup- 

 plementary list of the birds of 

 Breconshire, 485 

 Pleydell, J. C. Mansel, F.L.S. 

 Hon Harrier breeding in Dorset- 

 sliire, 340 ; Ornithological notes 

 from Dorsetshire, 430 



Postlethwaite, T. N. 



Birds of South Wales, 272; On 

 the Nightjar, 340 ; On the birds 

 of Berkshire, 487 

 Potts, T. H., F.L.S. 



Habits of the Huia, 386 ; On some 

 introduced birds in New Zea- 

 land, 448 

 Prentis, Walter 



Little Gull at Rainham, Kent, 114; 

 Red-throated Pipit in Kent, 272 ; 

 Black Stork near Rainham, 429 

 Rae, John 



Instinct of l)irds, 346 ; Common 

 Domestic Duck diving for food, 

 388 

 Roebuck, W. Denison, F.L.S., and 

 W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S. 

 Notes on the Vertebrate Fauna of 

 Yorkshire, 171 

 Rogers, Henry 



Snipe perching, 228 

 Rope, G. T. 



Habits of the Harvest Mouse, 56 ; 

 Weasel swimming, 337 

 Rushbrooke, O. 



Tit's nest in railway carriage, 388 

 Sandberg, Graham 



The Bittern in Suffolk, 31 

 Scott, Lord H. J., M.P. 



Flamingo shot in Hampshire, 338 

 Seebohm, Henry, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



On a new British Wren, 333 

 Sim, George 



An albino Cormorant, 342 

 Slater, Rev. H. H., F.Z.S. 



Black Redstart in Northampton- 

 shire, 31 : The Ornithology of 

 Riding Mill on Tyne and neigh- 

 bourhood, 92, 142; Breeding of 

 the Lesser Redpoll in North- 

 amptonshire, 144 ; Barred War- 

 bler in Yorkshire, 489 

 Smith, Cecil, F.Z.S. 



Fulmar Petrel in Somersetshire, 

 145 ; Great Grey Shrike and 

 Snow Buntuig in Somersetshire, 

 149 

 Southwell, Thomas, F.Z.S. 



Note on the Seal and Whale 

 Fishery of 1882, 121 ; Bi-dental 

 Skulls of the Narwhal, 141; 

 Provincial name for the Black 

 Tern, 144 ; Notes on the Seal and 

 Whale Fishery of 1883, 295 

 Squire, Balmanno 



The Burmese Elephant at the 

 Zoological Gardens, 110 



