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CONTE NTS. 



Horse-shoe Bats, The Editor (with a Plate), 1. 



On the Habits and Migrations of Wildfowl, Alfred Crawhall Chapman, 3. 



On the Breeding of Arctic Birds in Scotland, Henry Seebohm, 21. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The Essex Field Club, 23. 



Mammalia.— The Fur Trade of London, 23. Habits of the Weasel, Charles 

 Cook, 24. 



Birds. — Ruddy Sheldrake in Ireland, R. J. Ussher, 25. Little Gull in Co. 

 Durham, Abel Chapman, 26. Montagu's Harrier in Notts, W. Becher, 

 26. Blackcap in Co. Waterford in December, R. J. XJssher, 27. Storm 

 Petrel in London, J, E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.8., 27. Red-throated Diver 

 breeding in Co. Donegal, B. J. Ussher, 27. Phalaropes, Fulmar Petrel, and 

 Montagu's Harrier near Hastings, F. V. Theobald, 'l^. Snow Bunting on 

 Ben Nevis in Summer, E. C. Moor, 28. Nesting of the Sedge Warbler, 

 O. Smith, 28. Immigration of Fieldfares, Walter Prentis, 28. Distribution 

 of the White-bellied Brent Goose, Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A., 39. 



MoLLUscA. — Habits of Testacella haliotidea, Edward B. Poulton, M,A., 29. 



SCIENTIFIC SaCIETIES. 



Linnean, 30. Zoological, 31. Entomological, 34. 



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