CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTEIBUTORS. 



Apgar, Prof. Austin C. 



The Musk Eat and the Unio, 425 

 Aplin, Oliver V. 



Bu-ds observed m North Devon, 

 71 ; Scarcity of Fieldfares, 71 ; 

 Partridges with white " horse- 

 shoes," 108; Plumage of the 

 Kestrel, 112 ; Ornithological 

 notes from Oxfordshire in 1886, 

 283 ; Spring moult of the Wheat- 

 ear, BOO ; Eoller and other birds 

 in the Isle of Wight, 386 ; Wry- 

 neck nesting in holes in the 

 ground, 391 ; Note on the Tree 

 Pipit, 430 

 Balkwill, F. H. 



Small Eorqual at Plymouth, 262 

 Barclay, Hugh G. 



Swifts appropriating Martins' 

 nests, 391 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E. H. 



Black Eat m Wexford, 425 

 Bath, W. Harcourt 



Usefulness of the Eook in destroy- 

 ing Caterpillars, 109 ; A Badger 

 in Birmingham, 346 ; The song 

 of the Chaffinch, 348 ; Thresher 

 Shark at Portland, 393 ; Missel 

 Thrush feeding on Pieris rapae, 

 429 ; Song of Chaffinch in 

 autumn, 431 

 Becher, W. 



Montagu's Harrier in Notts, 26 

 Beckmann, L. 



Hornless Stags, 381 

 Beckwith, William E. 



Food of the Spotted Flycatcher, 

 269 ; Food of the Missel Thrush, 

 427 

 Bell, Prof. F. Jeffrey, M.A. 



Holothurians or Sea Slugs, 41 ; 

 The " Grouse disease," 265, 302 

 Benson, Henry 



Cirl Bunting breeding near Godal- 

 ming, 303 



Bird, Eev. Maurice C. H., M.A. 

 Blue-throat in Norfolk, 70; On the 

 wing-spiu: of the Coot, Moorhen, 

 and Water Eail, 107; White- 

 eyed Pochard and Bewick's 

 Swan in Norfolk, 195; The 

 Sheldrake or "Bar-goose" on 

 the Essex coast, 195 



BiRLEY, F. H. 



Lesser EedpoU nesting in Surrey, 

 69 ; Thrush nesting on the 

 ground, 112 ; Woodcock and 

 Pheasant laying in the same 

 nest, 194 

 Blagg, E. W. H. 



Change of habits in the Brown 

 Eat, 234 ; Wood Pigeons casting 

 up pellets, 236 ; Jackdaw taking 

 possession of Magpie's nest, 267 ; 

 Eedstart laying spotted eggs, 

 303 ; Ciurious site for Chiffchaff 's 

 nest, 304 ; Manx Shearwater in 

 Staffordshire, 430 

 Blake, W. 



Manx Shearwater in Hereford- 

 sliire, 430 

 Bond, F., F.Z.S. 



Hedgehog eating swedes, 345 ; 

 Swifts nesting in Martins' nests, 

 348 ; Distribution of the Bank 

 Vole, 425 

 BoRRER, William, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Breeding of the Tufted Duck in 

 Aberdeenshire, 427 ; The Bank 

 Vole in Sussex, 462 

 BOULENGER, G. A., F.Z.S. 



A synopsis of the Snakes of South 

 Africa, 171 

 Brazenor, C. W. 



Natterer's Bat and the Barbas- 

 telle in Sussex, 151 ; Craneflies 

 preyed upon by Gulls and 

 Terns, 355 

 Brown, George, F.Z.S. 

 Waxwing in Aberdeenshire, 70 



