CONTENTS. . 
On the Pheasant of St. Helena, Henry Seebohm, Q95. 
- On the Moulting of the Flight-feathers in the Common Wila Duck, The Bait 
228. 
Notes on the Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire, Montagu Browne, F..Z.8., 933, 
NOTES AND. QUERIES. 
The Sale of Game out of Season, 238. Death of Thomas Bdward, the Banfishire 
Naturalist, 238. A Median Eye in Vertebrates, 239. 
Mammatta.—Martens in Herefordshire, Mrs. F’. Attwood-Mathews, 240. The 
past Winter and the Rabbits, Robert J. Howard, 241. — Destruction of young, 3 
Rabbits by Rats, Robert Warren, 24]. . Climbing Powers of the Hedgehog, 
R. H: Scott, 242. Bat brought down by a Cockchafer, J. H. Wilmore, 242. 
Birps.—Golden Oriole in the Channel Islands; Nightingale near London, J. BE 
Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 242, 243. Notes on the Cuckoo, A. C. Chapman, 
248. ‘The Note of the Female Cuckoo, Francis Head, 244. Young Cuckoo © 
ejecting the Young of its Foster-parent from the Nest, R. P. Harper, 245. 
Cuckoo feeding its Young, 246. Ornithological Notes from Germany, P, W. 
Munns, 246. Habits of the Coot, John Titterton, 247. Redshank breoiog al 
~ in Kent, R. Fortune, 248. Snipe and Redshank laying in the same Nest, © 
' James Sargent, 248. - Effects of sudden’ cold upon Summer Birds, W. Fite-~ 
herbert-Brockholes, 248. Screaming of the Cock Pheasant, J. Whitaker 
F.LS., F.Z.S., 249. Unrecorded Occurrence of the Blue-throat in Kast — 
Lothian, George Pow, 249. -Swallows dying of, Cold in May, T. H. Nelson, q 
249. Black Game in Herefordshire, H. H. Wood, 250. 
Repritzs.—Palmated Newt in Epping Forest, G A. Boulenger, F.Z.S., 250, 
Palmated Newt in Lancashire, Linneus Greening, 250. 
_ Fisues.—Acclimatisation of American Lake Trout in England, Thos. Coinisis 251 
Crostacea.—The Long-legged Spider Crab at Penzance, Thomas Cornish, 251. 
ArcuaoLtocy.—Wild Animals paid for by Churchwardens in Bucks, 251. 
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean, 252. Zoological, 255. Entomological, 257- 
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