﻿CONTENTS. 
  

  

  The 
  Place 
  of 
  Herbert 
  Spencer 
  in 
  Biology, 
  D. 
  Sharp, 
  M.A., 
  M.B., 
  F.R.S., 
  &c, 
  1. 
  

  

  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Anglesea, 
  T. 
  A. 
  Coward 
  & 
  Charles 
  Oldham, 
  7 
  

  

  Notics 
  and 
  Queries: 
  — 
  

  

  Mammalia. 
  — 
  Gestation 
  of 
  Badgers, 
  Charles 
  Cook, 
  30. 
  The 
  Lesser 
  Shrew 
  in 
  

  

  Yorkshire, 
  Major 
  Walter 
  B. 
  Arundel, 
  30. 
  

   Aves. 
  — 
  British 
  Examples 
  ol 
  the 
  White-spotted 
  Bluethroat 
  {Cyanecula 
  xvolfi), 
  

   T. 
  H. 
  Nelson, 
  31. 
  Great 
  Grey 
  Shrike 
  (Lanius 
  excubitor) 
  in 
  Cheshire, 
  

   Frank 
  S. 
  Graves, 
  31. 
  Waxwings 
  in 
  North 
  of 
  Ireland, 
  Robert 
  Patterson, 
  31. 
  

   Late 
  Appearance 
  of 
  House-Martins 
  at 
  Eastbourne, 
  Robert 
  Morris, 
  32 
  

   " 
  Xanthochroism 
  " 
  in 
  the 
  Greenfinch 
  [Ligurinus 
  clitoris), 
  F. 
  L. 
  Blathwaijt, 
  

  

  32. 
  Snow-Geese 
  {Chen 
  hyperboreus) 
  in 
  Co. 
  Mayo, 
  Robert 
  Warren, 
  32. 
  

   Ferruginous 
  Duck 
  in 
  Yorkshire, 
  Major 
  Walter 
  B. 
  Arundel, 
  33. 
  Great 
  Skua 
  

   (Stercorarius 
  catarrhactes) 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Man, 
  P. 
  Ralfe, 
  33. 
  Pomato- 
  

   rhine 
  Skuas 
  {Stercorarius 
  pomatorhinus) 
  in 
  Suffolk, 
  Rev. 
  Julian 
  O. 
  Tuck, 
  

  

  33. 
  Birds 
  of 
  Oxfordshire 
  or 
  Buckinghamshire 
  ? 
  A. 
  H. 
  Cocks, 
  M.A., 
  F.S.A., 
  

   F.Z.S.,M.B.O.U., 
  34. 
  

  

  Pisces. 
  — 
  Porbeagle 
  Shark 
  in 
  Killala 
  Bay, 
  Robert 
  Warren, 
  36. 
  

   Nonces 
  of 
  New 
  Books, 
  37-39. 
  

   Editorial 
  Gleanings, 
  40. 
  

  

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