CONTENTS. 



Blackcap, 49 



Black-fish in the Colue, 75, 152 



Books, Notices of New: — 



' Allgeineine Zoologie oder Grund- 

 gesetze des thienschen Bans und 

 Lebens,' von H. Alexander Pa- 

 genstecher, 35 



' Angler, the Cornpleat, or the Con- 

 templative Man's Recreation ; 

 being a Discourse of Fish and 

 Fishing, not unworthy the pe- 

 rusal ofrnost Anglers,' London, 

 1653 (facsimile), 357 



' Angling Literature in England, 

 and Descriptions of Fishing by 

 the Ancients ; with a notice of 

 some books on other piscatorial 

 subjects,' by O. Lambert, 80 



' Animal Life, Notes and Jottings 

 from,' by the late Frank Buck- 

 land, M.A., 316 



' Birds, North American, the Coues' 

 Check List of,' 2nd edit., revised 

 to date and entirely rewritten 

 under direction of the Author, 

 with a Dictionary of the Etymo- 

 logy, Orthography, and Orthoepy 

 of the Scientific Names, the Con- 

 cordance of previous Lists, and 

 a Catalogue of his Ornithological 

 Publications,' 395 



' Birds observed during twenty 

 years' shooting and collecting in 

 the British Islands, Rough Notes 

 on the,' by E. T. Booth, 157 



' Birds of South Africa, the,' by 

 E. L. Layard ; new edition by 

 R. B. Sharpe, 277 



' Cameos from the Silver-land ; or, 

 the Experiences of a Young 

 Naturalist in the Argentine Re- 

 public,' by Ernest Win. White, 

 F.Z.S., 37, 434 



' Matabele Land and the Victoria 

 Fall; a Naturalist's Wanderings 

 in the Interior of South Africa,' 

 from the Letters and Journals of 

 the late Frank Oates, F.R.G.S.. 

 edited by C. J. Oates, B.A., 313 



' Micrographic Dictionary, the ; a 

 Guide to the Examination and 

 Investigation of the [Structure 

 and Nature of Microscopic Ob- 

 jects,' by J. W. Griffith, M.D., 

 and Arthur Henfrey, F.R.S. ; 4th 

 edition, edited by J. W. Griffith, 

 the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., 

 and T. R. Jones, F.R.S., 319 



' Studies in Nidderdale,' by Joseph 



Lucas, F.G.S., F.M.S., 437 

 ' Vogel der Zoologischen Garten, 

 die,' von Dr. A. Reichenow, 279 

 ' Wanderings in Africa, a Hunter's ; 

 being a Narrative of Nine Years 

 spent amongst the Game of the 

 far interior of South Africa,' by 

 Frederick Courteney Selous, 78 

 Botaurus stellaris, 217, 344 

 Bradypterus brachypterus, 245 

 ,, gracilirostris, 245 



Brambling, 133 



Breeding of Cormorants on an inland 

 lake, 67 ; of the Dipper in Mid- 

 dlesex, 109 ; haunts of the Gannet 

 in Ireland, 110; habits of the Long- 

 tailed Field Mouse, 121 ; of the 

 Otter, 201 ; of the Short-eared 

 Owl in Suffolk, 232 ; of the Teal 

 and Redshank in Yorkshire, 232 ; 

 haunt, inland. of Larus canus, 241 ; 

 of wildfowl at Rainworth, Notts, 

 309 ; of Short-eared Owl in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, 309 ; of Kestrel on the 

 ground, 352; of Pintail in West- 

 moreland, 353 ; of Choughs in 

 domestication, 431 ; of Martins in 

 Bayswater, 433 

 Bubo capensis, 204 



,, maculosus, 204, 460 

 Bulbul, Black-eyebrowed, 209 

 ,, Sombre, 209 

 „ Yellow-breasted, 209 

 Bullfinch, 134 

 Bunting, Cape, 302 

 ,, Common, 133 

 „ Golden-breasted, 302 

 ,, Reed, 1:!:; 

 Rock, 302 



Snow, 335, 370, 407 

 Yellow, 133 

 Buntings' nests, eggs of Cuckoo in, 



265 

 Buphaga erythrorhyncha, 256 

 Bustard, Kori, 339 

 Buteo jackal, 169 

 Buzzard in Lincolnshire, 22 



,, Common, in Nottingham- 

 shire, 310 ; in the Lake District, 352 

 ,, Honey, in Lincolnshire, 

 116; in Buckinghamshire, 116; in 

 Breconshire, 293 ; at Wangford, 334 

 ,, Jackal, 169 



Cage-bird, Merlin striking at, 310 

 Call of the Long-eared Owl, 265 

 Canary, Cape, 301 



