CONTENTS. 



" Slipper Limpet " or "Boat Shell" {Crejndula fornicata) : its Introduction and 

 Influence on Kent and Essex Oyster-beds (with two Plates), James Murie, 

 M.D., LL.D., F.L.S., 401. 

 Miscellaneous Notes on Zoological Institutions recently visited in Europe, Capt. 



Stanley 8. Floiver, F.L.S., 416. 

 Notes and Queries : — 



Mammalia. — Serotine Bat in Essex, F. W. Smalley, 428. Lesser Eorqual 

 "Whale at Lowestoft, Arthur H. Patterson, 428. 



AvES. — Nocturnal Habits of Turdus iliacus, Robert Warren, 429. The Noc- 

 turnal Habit of the Eedwing, R. B. Booth, 429. Habits of the Eedwing, 

 F. D. Power, 431. Late Swallows, R. H. Ramsbotham, 432. Little Owl 

 and (?) Wood-Sandpiper in Lincolnshire, George Bolam, 432. Long-tailed 

 Duck breeding in Orkney, 0. V. AjJlin, 482. Migration of the Coot (Fulica 

 atra) in Bedfordshire, ./. Steele Elliott, 433. Gulls hawking for Insects, 

 Collingwood Ingram, 433. Eared Grebe in Worcestershire, Thomas 

 Ground, 434. One of the Causes of our Eare Birds disappeariDg, Rev. 

 F. G. R. Jourdain, 435. A Note on Continental Birds, Rev. Charles W. 

 Benson, 485. 



MoLLUSCA. — Notes on ihe Breeding and the Boring Habits of Pholas crisj^ata, 

 A. W. Brown, 437. 



Vermes. — The Angler as a Factor in the Distribution of Earthworms. — TT^. L. 

 Distant, 440. 



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