CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTEIBUTOES. 



Angove, W. T. 

 "~ Breeding of the Short-eared Owl 



in Suffolk, 232 

 Aplin, F. C. 



Chiffchaff in Oxfordshire in winter, 

 114 ; Honey Buzzards in Buck- 

 inghamshire, 116 ; Peregrine in 

 Northamptonshire, 117 

 Aplin, Oliver V. 



Supposed occurrence of the Hairy 

 Woodpecker in Oxfordshire, 69 ; 

 Leach's Petrel in Oxfordshire, 

 Curious capture of a Pochard, 74, 

 75 ; The Badger in Oxfordshire, 

 146; Dipper nesting in North 

 Oxfordshire, 150; Firecrest in 

 Oxfordshire, 234 ; Variety of the 

 Mole, 351 ; Early arrival of the 

 Jack Snipe, 433 

 Armistead, J. J. 



Ornithological notes from the Sol- 

 way Firth, 304 

 Ayres, Thomas 



Effects of a snow-storm on animal 

 life in the Transvaal, 71 

 Backhouse, J., Jun. 

 — White's Thrush in Yorkshire, 74 ; 

 Common Buzzard in the Lake 

 District, Snipe perching, 352 ; 

 Curious nesting-place of a Great 

 Tit, 353 ; Pintail breeding in 

 Westmoreland, 353 

 Baker, J. C. 



Buffon's Skua and Little Auk in 

 Co. Waterford, 22 

 Barrington, Richard M., M.A. 

 On the breeding habits of the Long- 

 tailed Field Mouse, 121 

 Bird, Rev. M. C. H. 



Marten Cat in Norfolk, 146 

 Brady, Wm. E. 



Great Grey Shrike near Barnsley, 

 148 

 Brook, M. W. 



The chirp of the Cricket, 154 



Brown, J. A. H., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 

 The past and present distribution 

 of some of the rarer animals of 

 Scotland, 1, 41 ; Unusual abun- 

 dance of Dog-fish on the coasts 

 of Scotland, 354 ; Remarks on 

 the Grouse disease, 401 

 Butler, Major E. A., Major H. W. 

 Feilden, and Capt. S. G. Reid 

 Ornithological notes from Natal, 

 165, 204, 243, 297, 335, 423, 460 

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

 The "churring" of the Nuthatch, 

 149 ; Notes of the Nuthatch and 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 230 

 Campbell, J. M. 



Habits of the Storm Petrel in cap- 

 tivity, 20 ; Fork-tailed Petrel, 21 

 Candler, C. 



Birds and telegraph-wires, 116 

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

 E. Lovett 

 Notes and observations on British 

 Stalk-eyed Crustacea, 9,98, 178, 

 228, 258, 386 

 Caton, Hon. J. D. 



Effects of reversion to the wild 

 state in our domestic animals, 

 124 

 Chambers, C. 



Spotted Crake on the Island of 

 Fetlar, Shetland, 21 

 Chase, R. W. 



Waxwing near Birmingham, 117 

 Christy, Robert Miller 



Badger in Essex, 303 ; Short-eared 

 Owl breeding in Cambridgeshire, 

 309 ; Kestrel breeding on the 

 ground, 352 

 Clark, Sextus Vernon 



Osprey near Worthing, 463 

 Clarke, William Eagle 



Ornithological notes from York- 

 shire, 171 ; The Torpedo on the 

 Yorkshire coast, 193 



