CONTENTS. 



Field Notes from North Lincolnshire in the Spring of 1888, John Cordeaux, "241. 

 On the Winter Breeding of the Otter, Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., -248. 

 The Art of Training Pigeons in the East, 252. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Mammalta. — Leaping Powers of the Hare, R. W. Shufeldt, 259. Hare ; number 

 of Young at a Birth, J. C. Mansel Pleydell. B.A.. F.L.S., 259. Vespertilio 

 Bechsteinii and V. mystacinus in Hampshire and Staffordshire, E. W. H. 

 Illaqg, 260. The Beaver in Norway, 260. Risso's Grampus in the River 

 Crouch, Henry Lace,; F.R.C.S., F.L.S., 260. Swedenborg's Whale, 261. 



Birds. — The Re-appearance of Pallas's Sand Grouse in the British Islands : — 

 Scotland, Wm. Evans, John Ross, 262, 263 ; Yorkshire, R. P. Harper, 263; 

 Cambridge, W. Maijd, 263 ; Norfolk, Suffolk, Rev. J. G. Tuck, M.A., 263 ; 

 Essex, A. F.Gatesj Rev, Murray A. Mathew, 268,264; Kent, H. S.D. 

 Byr/m, 364 ; Hampshire, William Jeffery, G. B. Corbin, 264; Dorsetshire, 

 J. C. Mansel- Pleydell. 265 ; Isle of Man, Philip M. C. Kerm.nde, 265 ; Cum- 

 berland, Rev. H. A. Macpherson, St.A:, 265 : Pembrokeshire, Rev. Murray A. 

 Mathew, 265 ; Gloucestershire, F. Day, "265 : Somersetshire, Rev. Murray A. 

 Mathew, Cecil Smith, F.Z.S., H. St. B. Goldsmith, 266 ; Devonshire, J. G. 

 Hamling, 266; Guernsey, Cecil ' Smith, 2(56. Pallas's Sand Grouse in 

 Heligoland, John Cordeaux, 267. Pallas's Sand Grouse in Scandinavia, 267. 

 Kites in Dorsetshire, J. C. Mamel-Pleydell, 267. Pied Flycatcher in Ireland, 

 Robert Warren, 267. Honey Buzzard near Bury St. Edmunds, Rev. Julian 

 G. Tuck, 268. Hoopoe in Hampshire, G. B. Corbin, 268. Ducks preying 

 on Trout, J. J. Armistead, 268. White Stork at Scarborough, R. P. 

 Harper, 269. Kestrel nesting in a House, Riley Fortune, 269. Food of the 

 Kestrel, Rev. Julian G. Tuck, 269. Dotterel in the Lake District, 270. 

 Montagu's Harrier nesting in Dorsetshire, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, 270. 



Fishes. — Note on the Haddock; Sparus auratus at Penzance ; Spanish Mackarel 

 off Penzance, Thomas Cornish, 270, 271. 



Crustacea. — Dromia vulgaris in Cornwall, G. Tregelles, 272. 



Scientific Societies. — Liune;in, 272. Zoological, 274. Entomological, 276. 



Notices of New Books. — 'Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire; contributed 

 by Members of the Woolhope Club,' collected and arranged by the late 

 Henry Graves Bull, M.D., 277. 



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