CONTENTS. 



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On the former Existence of Ptarmigan in South- West Scotland, Robert Service, 81. 

 The Distribution in Great Britain of the Lesser Horse-shoe Bat, J. E. Kelsall, 89. 

 Notes on a Voyage to the Greenland Seas in 1886, Robert Gray, 94. 

 Belostomidse and other Fish-destroying Bugs, George Dimtnock, 101. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 

 Death of Mr. Robert Gray, 106. 



Mammalia.— Dormice in a Garden, E. P. Larken, 106. Bats in Captivity, J 

 F. Hayward Parrott, i 06. £^ 



BiBDs. — On the Wing-spur of the Coot, Moorhen, and Water Rail, Rev. Mauri/' 

 C. H. Bird, M.A., 107. Note on Eider Ducks, John Murdoch, If 

 Partridges with white " Horse-shoes," Oliver V. Aplin, 108. Usefulnes 

 the Rook in destroying Caterpillars, W. Harcourt Bath, 109. Albino T s 

 observed in the Harrogate District, J. R. Fitzgerald, llO. Habits c le 

 Green Sandpiper, G. H. Caton Haigh, 110. Crossbills at Rynn, Rosenailis, 

 Queen's County, Anna Croasdaile, 111. Little Bustard in Sussex, Percy E. 

 Coombe, 111. Varieties of Common Wild Ducks, J. Whitaker, F.L.S., 111. 

 Thrush nesting on the Ground, F. H. Birley, 1 1-2. Plumage of the Tufted 

 Duck, Rev. H. A, Macpherson, M.A., 112. Plumage of the Kestrel, F. C. 

 Aplin, 112. Supposed assumption of Male Plumage by a Female Kestrel, 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., 113. Hybrid Finches, J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., 113. 

 White's Thrush in the Scilly Islands, Thomas Cornish, 114. 



Fishes. — Scabbard Fish on the Cornish Coast, Thomas Cornish, 114. 



MoLLuscA. — Muscular Power of Snails, Capt. H. Hadjield, 114. Marine 

 Mollusca of Kerry, T. D. A. Cockerell, 115. 



Crustacea. — Inachus dorynchus at Penzance, Thomas Cornish, IIQ. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 

 Linnean, 117. Zoological, 118. Entomological, 119. 



Natural History Specimens. 



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