CONTENTS. 



The Past and Present Distribution of some of the Rarer Animals of Scotland — 

 IV. The Badger, J. A. Harvie Brown, F.U.S.E., F.Z.S., 41. 



The Birds of Breconshire, E. Cambridge Phillipe, 45. 



The Desquamation and Digestion of Serpents, from a new Point of View, Arthur 

 Str adling, C.M.Z.S., 50. 



Ornithological Notes in France and Switzerland, Hugh A. Macphersori, 56. 



Ornithological Notes from Devon and Cornwall, John Gatcombe, B2, 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



Mammalia. — Badgers in West Cornwall, Thomas Cornish, 66. Variety of the 

 Irish Hare, A. WilMami;, r>0. Black Rat in the Channel Islands, J. Sinel, <>7. 



Birds. — Cormorants breeding on an Inland Lake, J-. J. Ffolliott Darling, (17. 

 The Nostrils of the Cormorant, 68. Supposed Occurrence of the Hairy 

 Woodpecker in Oxfordshire, Oliver V, Aplin, B9. Abnormal Eggs of Hooded 

 Crow, Robert H. Mitford, F.Z.S., 69* Colour of the Legs in Lesser Black- 

 backed Gull, F. Kerry, 70. Variety of Lesser Black-backed Gull, C. A. 

 Marriott, 70. Iceland Gull and Great Grey Shrike in Somerset, Cecil 

 Smith. F.Z.S., 71. Effects of a Snowstorm on Animal Life in the Trans- 

 vaal, Thomas Agree, 71. Small Birds carried by Crams in their Migrations, 

 72. Small Birds carried by Cranes in their Migrations, T. H. Nelson, 73. 

 Leach's Petrel in Oxfordshire, Oliver V. Aplin, 73. Red-necked Phalarope 

 and Little Gull on the Lincolnshire Coast, A. 9. Hutchinson, 73. Ornitho- 

 logical NOtes from Ireland, Williams & Son, 74. White's Thrush in York- 

 shire, J. Backhouse, Jan., 74. Kentish Plover on the Lincolnshire Coast, 

 A- 8. Hutchinson, 74. Curious Capture of a Pochard, 0. V. Aplin, 74. 



Fishes. — The Dorse, or Golden Cod, in Cornwall, Thomas Cornish, 75. The 

 Black-fish in the Colne, Henry Laver, M.D., F.L.8., 75. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Linnean Society, 75. Zoological Society, 70. Entomological Society, 77. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



'A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa; being a Narrative of Nine Years spent 



amongst the Game of the far interior of South Africa/ by Frederick Courteney 



Selous, 78. 

 ' Angling Literature in England, and Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients ; 



with a Notice of some books on other piscatorial subjects,' by Osmund 



Lambert, 80. 



The continuation of " Notes and Observations on British Stalk-eyed 

 Crustacea," by John T. Carrington and Edward Lovett, and communications 

 from C. Candler, G. B. Corbin, J. Cordeaux, J. Cullingford, W. W. Flemyng, 

 Percy E. Freke; F. Kerry, R. It. Mitford, Thos. Parkin, R. Lloyd Patterson, 

 A. Stradliug, John H. Willmore, J. Young, unavoidably stand over. 



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