iv PREFACE. 



" Notes and Queries " are resuming their old vitality and greater 

 volume, and it is a matter for regret that many valuable notes 

 have had to be held over from the December issue owing to 

 the necessary usurpation of the Index in that number. 



In the past year the publication of many standard works on 

 British Zoology is to be noted. We have now received Part viii. 

 of the ' History of British Mammals,' by Major Barrett-Hamil- 

 ton ; Section vi. of Mr. Kirkman's * British-Bird Book ' has 

 appeared ; Mr. Tate Eegan's volume on ' The Freshwater Fishes 

 of the British Isles ' has been published ; the ' Eggs of European 

 Birds,' by the Piev. F. C. B. Jourdain, is still in progress, and 

 of course pertains largely to our British fauna ; while Mr. 

 Ogilvie-Grant's *' Annual Pteport on the Immigration of Summer 

 Kesidents, and Notes on the Migratory Movements and Eecords 

 received from Lighthouses and Light -vessels," published in the 

 ' Bulletin ' of the British Ornithologists' Club, appears with its 

 welcome regularity. 



