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The Finwhale Fishery of 1885 on the North European Coast, Alfred Henea é 
Cocks, M.A., F.Z.S., 121. oi A 
A Review of the Species of the Genus Numenius, Henry Seebohm, 137. a 
Field Notes from Northern Iceland, Rev. Henry H. Slater € Thomas Carter, 14 
Notes on the Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire, Montagu Browne, F.Z.S., 15 
Ornithological Notes from North Norfolk, J. H. Gurney, jun., 168. 3 a | 
Notes and Observations ou British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, Hdward Lovett, 170. 
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The late Charles William Peach, 177. Zoological Lectures at Oxford, 178. “= 
Mammatta.—Variety of the Squirrel, G. B. Corbin, 178. Pe 
Birnps.—The Destruction of Birds for Plumes, 179. Migration of Birds on the 
West Coast of England and Wales, Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.Z.8., 179. Bird | 
used for Sport in China, Capt. H. Hadfield, 180. Changes of Plumage 
the Kestrel, Rev. H. . Frere, M.A., 180. Habits of the Arctic Skua a 
observed in Caithness, W. Reid, 180. Hybrid Finches, O. V. Aplin, 182) 
Nutcracker in Hampshire, 4. G Renshaw, 182. Velvet Scoter in Notting: 
hamshire; Varieties of Common Birds, J. Whitaker, F.L.S., F.Z.8., 18 
Occurrence of the Huropean Woodcock in Lower Sind, Capt. E. F. Becher} 
R.A., 183. Boosting Habits of the Common Wren, Capt. H Hadfield, 189) 
Fisuus.—Importation of American Fish Ova, 188. Large Trout in the Har 
shire Avon, G. B. Corbin, 183. Bets ra 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean, 184. Zoological, 185. Entomological, 186. 
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