CONTENTS. 



Holothurians or Sea Slugs, Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., 41. 'ji 



Notes on a Voyage to tbe Greenland Seas in 1886, Robert Gray, 48. . ^ 



Notes on the Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire, Montagu Browne, F.Z.S., 67. < 



A few Words on European Bats, Rt. Hon. Lord Lilford, F.Z.S., 61. \ 



NOTES AND QUERIES. > 



Mammalia. — Young Utters in August, O.B.Corhin,iSl . Weasels killing Mole<, I 



O. T. Rope, 68. Bats in Winter, Lieut.-Col. L. H. Irby, (59. Dormouse in a f 



Woodpecker's Nest, F. H. Birley, 69. ,i 



Birds. — The Mediterranean Black-headed Gull on the Norfolk Coast, George -, 



Smith 69. Lesser Redpoll nesting in Surrey, F. H. Birley, 69. Variety ■ 



of the Wild Duck, G. H. Caton Haigh, 69. Waxwing in Aberdeenshire, \ 



George Brown, 70. Blue-throat in Norfolk — Correction of Error, Maurice -?; 



C. H. Bird, 70. Harlequin Duck on the Northumbrian (joast, Rev. Julian '' 



Tuck, 70. Birds observed in North Devon ;. Scarcity of Fieldfares, Oliver h 



V. Aplin, 7L Curlew Sandpiper and Spotted Crake in Shetland, J. T. J 



Garriock, 79. Reported Occurrence of the Citril Finch near Brighton, ' 



J. E. Hurting, FX.S., F.Z.8., 72. Additions to the Avifauna of the F^roe J; 



Islands, H. W. Feilden, 73. Birds which Sing at Night, G. T. Rope, 73. ii 



Varieties of the Brambling, J. H. Gurney, juii., F.Z.S., 74. Grey Phalaropes 1 



in Ireland, R. J. Ussher, 75. Bittern iu Norfolk, R. J. W. Purdy, 75. ^ 



Rare Birds in Ireland, Williams d Son, 76. Estimated duration of life in .-^ 



an Albatross, 76. Purple Sandpiper in the Channel Islands, J. Nicoll, 76. -^ 



Moorhen nesting in a disused Punt, E. C. Moor, 77. j 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 1 



Linnean, 77. Zoological, 79. Entomological, 80. f 



Communications with the following signatures unavoidably stand over: — | 



Oliver V. Aplin, F. H. Birley, T. D. A. Cockerell, Anna Croasdaile, G. H. Caton ^ 



Haigh, W. Harcourt-Bath, H. A. Macpherson, T. J. Mann, T. Southwell. I 



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Colonial and Indian Exhibition. — Natal and Straits Settlements 



Courts. ^ 



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Rooms, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, on Monday, February 7th, at half-past i 



12 precisely, the remaining portion of the exhibits removed from the late \ 



Colonial -and Indian Exhibition, comprising a fine Collection of CURIOS, -i 



NATIVE PRODUCTS, NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS, &c. j 



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Natural History Specimens from New Guinea. , 



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 38, King Street, Covent Garden, on Monday, February 14th, at half-past J: 

 12 pr»fcisely, a beautiful assortment of BLRDSKINS, INSECTS, and other I 

 Natural History Specimens- collected by Mons. Augustk Linden during his i 

 travels in New Guinea. ^ 



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