CONTENTS. 



IX 



Parrott, F. Hayward 



Bats in captivity, 106 ; Yoiang of 

 the Hedgehog, 424; Range of 

 the Dermouse in England, 463 

 Phillips, E. Cambridge, F.Z.S. 

 Marten Cat in Breconshire, 190; 

 Ornithological notes from Bre- 

 conshire, 298 

 Phillips. G. T. 



Supposed breeding of the Great 

 Northern Diver in the Faeroe 

 Islands, 464 ; Lesser Redpoll 

 and Hawfinch nesting in Berk- 

 shire, 466 



PiCKIN, J. 



Pm-ple Heron in Lancashire, 432 

 PouLTON, Edward B., M.A., F.E.S. 



Habits of Testacella haliotidea, 29 

 Pow, G. 



Nesting of the Stock Dove in East 

 Lothian, 235 

 Prentis, Walker 



Immigration of Fieldfares, 28 



PURDY, R. J. W. 



Bittern in Norfolk, 75 

 Rice, David J. 



Hawfinch nesting in Surrey, 265 

 Rope, G. T. 



Weasels killing Moles, 68 ; Birds 

 which sing or call at night, 73 ; 

 Habits of the Long-tailed Field 

 Mouse, 201 ; Enemies of the 

 Toad, 392 

 Sanford, Capt. E. A. 



The Missel Thrush occasionally a 

 bird of prey, 263 

 Seebohm, Henry, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Breeding of Arctic birds in Scot- 

 land, 21 ; Birds' nests and eggs, 

 137 

 Service, Robert 



Former existence of Ptarmigan in 

 South-west Scotland, 81 ; On 

 the nesting of the Tufted Duck in 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, 342; Wild 

 White Cattle in South- Western 

 Scotland, 448 

 Shakespeare, Wm. 



Osprey captured in the Bristol 

 Channel, 433 

 Slater, Rev. H. H., B.A., F.Z.S. 

 On the Goldeneyes and Ptarmigan 

 of Iceland, 422 ; The use of the 

 word "feral," 461; The Bank 

 Vole m Durham, 462 

 Smith, George 



Nesting of the Sedge Warbler, 

 28 ; The Mediterranean Black- 



headed Gull on the Norfolk 

 coast, 69 

 Snape, Martin 



Adders in winter, 154 

 Southwell, Thomas, F.Z.S. 



Notes on the Seal and Whale 

 fishery of 1886, 182 ; Common 

 Rorqual at Skegness, 190 ; The 

 supposed Serotine in the New- 

 castle Museum, 234 ; Report on 

 the migi'ation of birds, 432 

 Stephens, Darell, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Unusual site for a Flycatcher's 

 nest, 306 

 Stejneger, Leonhard 



Shedding of the claws in the Ptar- 

 migan and allied birds, 258 ; 

 The British Marsh Tit, 379 

 Swan, J. G. 



The Trepang fishery, 434 

 Teschemaker, W. E. 



Swallows and Swifts in captivity, 

 372 

 Theobald, F. V. 



Phalaropes, Fulmar Petrel, and 

 Montagu's Harrier near Hast- 

 ings, 28 

 Troil, Uno von, D.D. 



Notes on the Fauna of Iceland, 254 

 Tuck, Rev. Julian G. 



Harlequin Duck on the Northum- 

 brian coast, 70 ; Harlequin 

 Drake, 196 ; Ornithological notes 

 fi-om Hunstanton, Norfolk, 384 

 UssHER, Richard J. 



Ruddy Sheldrake in Ireland, 25 ; 

 Blackcap in Co. Waterford in 

 December, 27 ; Red-throated 

 Diver breeding in Co. Donegal, 

 27 ; Gray Phalaropes in Ireland, 

 75 ; Fork-tailed Petrel breeding 

 on islands off Co. Kerry, 349 

 Vine, Joseph 



Lesser Redpoll in Middlesex, 428 

 Ward, Henry A. 



The West India Seal, 191 

 Warren, Robert 



Ornithological notes fi-om Mayo 

 and Sligo, 296 ; Iceland Gull in 

 the Moy Estuary, 468; Spotted 

 Redshank in the Moy Estuary, 

 468 

 Weir, J. Jenner, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Hybrid Finches, 113 

 Whitaker, J., F.Z.S. 



Varieties of Common Wild Ducks, 

 111; A pied Hare, 233; Plu- 

 mage of the Tufted Duck, 235 ; 



