CONTENTS. 



A Visit to Loch Swen, Argyllshire, T. M. Pike, 28L 

 The Birds of Breconshire, /•,'. Cambridcft PluUips, '-181. 

 Ornithological Notes from East Norfolk, J. II. Gufney, jun., F.Z.8., '.I'M. 

 Ornithological Notes from Natal, Majors /'.'. .1. Butler and II. IF. Feilden, unit 

 Capt. S. G. Eeid, 897. 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



Mammalia.— Badger in Essex, Robert Miller Christy, 303. Marten in Durham, 

 T. H. Nelson, o04. 



Birds. — Ornithological Notes from the Solway Firth, J. J. Armistead, 304. 

 Kentish Plover in Sussex, J. Jcnrwr Weir, F.L.S., 305. Marsh Warbler 

 near Taunton, /*'. Stansell, 306. Woodcock's mode o! carrying it- Young, 

 Richard J. Ussher, 306. Habits of the Woodcock, in Ereland, 



//. /■;. T&eves, 307; N >ta the Northumbrian Loughs. Edward ■!. 



Gibhms, 308. Wildfowl breeding at Rainworth, Notts. J. WhUaker, 309. 

 Curious .Silo tor a Flycatcher's Nest, V. //. Nelson, 309. Short-card Owl 

 breeding in Cambridgeshire, IB. M. Christy, 309. Unusua lor u 



Chaffinch's Nest, Edward .1. Gibbins, 810. .Merlin striking at Cage-bird, 

 Herbert 'Langton, 310. Reed Warbler ami Nightingale in South Wales, 

 J. Fo"/i</. 310. Teal and Marsh Ha Jttng in Glamorganshire, 



Gibbins, 810. I mon Buzzard in Nottinghamshire, J. WhUaker, 810. 



SCIENTIFIC S,M 

 Zoological Society of London, 311. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



' Matabele Land and the Victoria Fall ; a Naturalist's Wanderings in the Inti 

 of South Africa.' from tin' Letters ami Journals of the late Frank < 

 F.B.G.S. ; edited by C.J. Oates, I '-.A., 318. 



'Notes and Jotting from Animal Lite,' by the late Frank Buckland, M.A., -111. 



'■ The Micrographic Dictionary ; a Examination and Investigation 



of the Structure and h by J. W. Griffith, M.D., 



and Arthur Heufrev. F.R.S. Fourth Edition, edited by J. W. Griffith, the 

 Rev. M.J. Berkeley, M.A., and T. Ruperl 319. 



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