CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Allen, Joel Asaph 



On trinomial nomenclature, 97 



Aplin, F. C. 



The plumage of the young Kestrel, 

 496 



Aplin, Oliver V. 



Great Crested Grebe breeding in 

 Oxfordshire, 32 ; Migration of 

 the Jay, 128 ; Grey Phalarope 

 in North Oxon, 128 ; Protecting 

 poultry from Foxes in Scotland, 

 260 ; Spoonbill and Shoveller, 

 260 ; Supposed nestling Grey 

 Plover from the Orkneys, 334 ; 

 Tufted Duck and Common Tern 

 in Oxfordshire, 470 ; An albino 

 Blackbird, 471 ; Food of the Car- 

 rion Crow and Magpie, 499 ; 

 Jack Snipe in Oxfordshire in 

 summer, 505 



Atkinson, Eev. J. C, M.A. 



Peculiar habit of the Starling, 373 



Axford, S. B. 



Smooth Snake in Surrey, 84 



Backhouse, J., Jun. 



Occurrence of the American Kestrel 

 in Yorkshire, 126 ; Uucornmon 

 birds near York, 180 



Barrington, Richard M., M.A. 

 The note of the Manx Shear- 

 water, 28, 82 ; Hairy-armed Bat 

 in Co. Fermanagh, 116 ; Dipper 

 singing during frost, 179 



Battye, A. B. R. 



Fire-crested Wren at Oxford, 224 ; 

 The Edible Frog in Suffolk, 226 



Becher, Capt. E. F., R.A. 



Zoological notes from Gibraltar, 

 100; Notes from Gibraltar : cor- 

 rection of error, 178 ; Food of the 

 Starling, 334 ; Bold attack by a 

 Partridge, 336 ; Wren utilising 

 a Swallow's nest, 380 ; Sparrow 

 imitating a Canary's note, 381 ; 

 Variety of the Coal Titmouse, 



424 ; Attachment of Magpie to 

 nesting site, 471 

 Berney, Frederick Lee 



Great Grey Shrike near Croydon, 

 180 

 Bidwell, Edward 



Cuckoo's eggs, 372 

 Blomefield, Rev. L., M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. 

 Animal parasites, 219 

 Booth, E. T. 



Wild Geese formerly breeding in 

 the English Fens, 432 

 Bree, C. R. 



The Sparrow and his ways, 297 

 Brotherston, Andrew 

 Animal parisites, 219 

 Brydges, Sir H. J. J., Bart. 



Wren building in deserted nest of 

 Martin, 126 

 Butler, A. G., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Wren's egg in a Swallow's nest, 

 423 ; Variation in nests of com- 

 mon birds : singular nests taken 

 in Kent, 491 

 Cambridge, Rev. O. P., M.A., F.L.S. 

 On a pecrdiar habit of the Starling, 

 334 

 Cambpell, Lieut. -Col. Hon. H. W. 

 Nocturnal movements of the Coot, 

 127 

 Candler, C. 



Otters and the floods, 115 

 Carrington, John T., F.L.S. , and 

 Edward Lovett 

 Notes and observations on British 

 Stalk-eyed Crustacea, 68, 213 

 Chase, Robert W- 



Corn Crake in winter, 177 ; Hoopoe 

 at the Fame Islands, 338 ; 

 White-winged Black Tern in 

 Norfolk, 341 ; Grey Crow nesting 

 in Warwickshire, 423 ; Leach's 

 Petrel picked up in Bfrmingham, 

 424 



