x CONTENTS. 
32; migratory, biological stations 
for the observation of, 58; un- 
common, in Devon, 68; of Mani- 
toba, notes on, 121; important 
additions tothe National Collection 
of, 145; seasonal changes of plu- 
mage in, 220; breeding in Ants’ 
nests, 310; New Zealand, notes 
on, 421; at sea, 436; albino, 437; 
used for sport in China, 447; un- 
common, in the Isle of Wight, 482 
Birds’ nest caves at Gomanton, North 
Borneo, a visit to the, 43 
Bittern, 55 
Blackbird, 335; and Thrush, inter- 
breeding of, 69, 112 
Blackeap breeding in Co. Waterford, 
260 
Boar, Wild, 251 
Books REVIEWED :— 
British Oribatide, by Albert D. 
Michael, 76 
Nests and Eggs of Australian 
Birds, by Archibald J. Camp- 
bell, 78 
Report on the Zoologieal Collec- 
tions made in the Indo-Pacific 
Ocean during the Voyage of 
H.M.S. ‘ Alert,’ 1881-82, 154 
Cruise of the ‘ Alert’: Four Years 
in Patagonian, Polynesian, and 
Mascarene Waters, by R. W. 
Coppinger, 154 
Elementary Text-Book of Zoology, 
by Dr. C. Claus, translated and 
edited by A. Sedgwick, 159 
Catalogue of the Lizards in the 
British Museum (Natural His- 
tory), second edition, by G. A. 
Boulenger, 196 
Recollections of Fly Fishing for 
Salmon, Trout, and Grayling. 
with Notes on them Haunts, 
Habits, and History, by Edward 
Hamilton, 198 
A Highland Gathering, by E. Len- 
nox Peel, with illustrations by 
Charles Whymper, 200 
Russian Central Asia, including 
Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and 
Mery, by Henry Lansdell, 271 
A History of British Birds, by 
William Yarrell, 278 
Die Pilzthiere oder Schleimpilze, 
by Von Dr. W. Zoft, 280 
A Naturalist’s Wanderings in the 
Eastern Archipelago: a Narra- 
tive of Travel and Exploration 
from 1878 to 1883, by H. O. 
Forbes, 313 
The Birds of Lancashire, by F. 8. 
Mitchell, 318 
Catalogue of the Birds in the 
British Museum, by R. Bowdler 
Sharpe, 355 
Comparative Anatomy and Physi- 
ology, by F. Jeffery Bell, 356 
The Collected Scientific Papers 
of the late William Alexander 
Forbes, M.A., edited by F. E. 
Beddard, with a Preface by 
P. L. Selater, 357 
Elementary Text-Book of Ento- 
mology, by W. F. Kirby, 358 
The Irish Wolf-Hound, by Capt. 
G. A. Graham, 360 
The Great Auk or Garefowl: its 
History, Archeology, and Re- 
mains, by Symington Grieve, 390 
European Butterflies, by W. F. de 
Vismes Kane, 394 
Lord Malmesbury’s Reminiscences 
of Sport and Natural History, in 
‘Memoirs of an Ex-Minister,’ 
397 
A Tour in Sutherlandshire ; with 
extracts from the Field-books of 
a Sportsman and Naturalist, by 
Charles St. John. Second edition. 
With an Appendix on the Fauna 
of Sutherland, by J. A. Harvie 
Brown and T. E. Buckley, 490 
A List of Irish Birds: showing the 
Species contained in the Science 
and Art Museum, Dublin, by A. 
G. More, 492 
Sixth Report on the Migration of 
Birds in the Spring and Autumn 
of 1884, 492 
Blackeap, 415 
Bos longifrons, 249; primigenius, 249 
Brachiopoda, 92 
Brambling, 53, 465; variety of, 346 
Bramblings, Black-chinned, 389 
Bream, Ray’s Sea, on the Norfolk 
coast, 484 
Breeding of the Blackeap in Co. 
Waterford, 260; of Jackdaws in a 
Magpie’s nest, and in Rabbit-holes, 
264; of birds in Ants’ nests, 310; 
of Lesser Black-backed Gull on the 
Yorkshire coast, 346, 388; of Cha- 
radrius hiaticula, 347: of the Red- 
throated Diver in Ireland, 348 
Breeding-places of the Gannet, 32 
British Association, 343, 384, 430 
