CONTENTS. 



XI 



352; on Isle of Eigg, 412; sea, 

 protection of on Fame Islands, 

 430 ; of Essex, projected volume 

 on, 432 



Birds' -nest Islands of the Mergui 

 Archipelago, 231 



Birds' nests, Squirrels robbing, 105 



Bison, extinction of, 103 



Books reviewed : — 



A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, 

 Caithness, and West Cromarty, 

 by J. A. Harvie Brown and J . E. 

 Buckley, 38 



The Forest of Essex : its History, 

 Laws, Administration, and An- 

 cient Customs, by W. R. Fisher, 

 72 



The Solomon Islands aud their 

 Natives, by H. B. Guppy, 77 



The Solomon Islands : their Geo- 

 logy, General Features, and 

 suitability for Colonization, by 

 the same Author, 77 



A Manual of Zoology for the use 

 of Students, with a General In- 

 troduction on the Principles of 

 Zoology, by H. A. Nicholson, 79 



The Birds of Wiltshire, comprising 

 all the Periodical and Occasional 

 Visitants as well as those which 

 are indigenous to the County, by 

 the Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, 

 M.A., 114 



The Journal of Morphology, edited 

 by C. 0. Whitman, with the 

 co-operation of E. P. Allis, Jun., 

 120 



The Birds of Dorsetshire : a Con- 

 tribution to the History of 

 the County, by J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell, 155 



The Geographical Distribution of 

 the family Charadriidse ; or the 

 Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and 

 their Allies, by Henry Seebohm, 

 197 



Notes on the Birds of Hereford- 

 shire ; contributed by Members 

 of the Woolhope Club. Collected 

 and arranged by the late Henry 

 Graves Bull, M.D., 277 



An Illustrated Manual of British 

 Birds, by Howard Saunders; 

 Parts I.— IV., 319 



Birdsnesting and Birdskiuning : a 

 complete description of the Nests 

 and Eggs of Birds which breed 



in Great Britain, by Edward 

 Newman. Second Edition, re- 

 vised and re-written, with direc- 

 tions for their collection and 

 preservation, and a Chapter on 

 Birdskinning, by Miller Christy, 

 319 



Pallas's Sand Grouse, Syrrhaptes 

 paradoxus, its history, habits, 

 food, and migrations, with hints 

 as to its utility, and a plea for 

 its preservation, by W. B. Teget- 

 meier, 358 



The Fauna of British India, includ- 

 ing Ceylon and Burma : Mam- 

 malia (Part I.), by W. T. Blan- 

 ford, F.E.S., 395 



A History of the Birds of New 

 Zealand, by Sir Walter L. Buller, 

 434 



Curious Creatures : their Ways and 

 Habits, by Marianne Bell, 438 



British Birds ; their Nests and 

 Eggs, by W. Harcourt Bath, 439 



Botany, position and progress of, 383 

 Brambling, varieties of, 108 

 Bramblings, Crossbills, and Redstarts 



in South of Ireland, 189 

 Breeding of Pallas's Sand Grouse in 

 Cumberland, 348, — in Durham, 

 348,— in Fifeshire, 468 ; of Merlin 

 near Brecon, 429 

 British Association, 297, 346 ; meet- 

 ing of at Bath, 383 

 Bunting, Cirl, in Breconshire, 189, — 

 in Hampshire, 393, 468 ; Corn, late 

 nesting of, 429 

 Bustard, Little, in Co. Mayo, 108 

 Butterflies mobbing small birds, 



313 

 Buzzard, Honey, near Bury St. Ed- 

 munds, 268,— in Staffordshire, 394 ; 

 Rough-legged, and Shoveller in 

 Surrey, 352 



' Clef des Champs,' 1586, Le Moine's, 



314 

 Chough, probable occurrence of in 



Suffolk, 185 

 Cockroaches, Mice versus, 466 

 Coral-reefs, discussion on, 386 

 Courser, Cream-coloured, reported 



occurrence of in Lancashire, 389 

 Crake, Spotted, in Holderness, 431 

 Crossbill in Hebrides, 348,— migra- 

 tion of, 349 

 Crossbills, Brambling, and Black 



