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\C™X^Nr2:is } OCTOBER 16th, 1916. No. 904. 



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ZOOLOGIST 



ESTABLISHED 1&4:i. 



EDITED HY 



FRANK FINN, B.A., F.Z.§: 



LATE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, INDIAN MUSEUM, CALCUTTA. 



CONTENTS. 



ARTICLES. PAOB 



Some Miscellaneous Notes from Great Yarmouth (1915-16). Arthur 



H.Patterson • 361 



Ornithological Report for the Maltese Islands (July-December, 1915). 



G. Despott, M.B.O.U., Nat. Hist. Museum, Malta 378 



Some German Enchytraeids. Rev. Hilderic Friend 389 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 

 Mammalia. 



Rats Eating the Eggs of Poultry. Henry Layer 395 



Rats and Eggs. J. M. McWilliam 395 



Aves. 



Breeding of the Lesser Redpoll in Sussex. Hugh Whistler 396 



Late Nesting of Barn-Owls. Joseph H. Symes 396 



Scarcity of Corncrakes in Somerset. Joseph H. Symes ... ... 396 



Common Scoter in Shropshire and Worcestershire. J. Steele Elliott 396 



Spotted Flycatcher Wintering in Oxfordshire. H. W. Robinson ... 39T 



Rooks and Railways. F. Finn 397 



Status of Lesser Whitethroat and Stonechat in North- West Yorkshire. 



E. P. Butterfield 397 



Bird and Insect Notes from Bolton Woods, Yorks. E. P. Butterfield 398 



Apachnida. 



Same Species of Tick Infesting Polecat and Otter. H. W. Robinson ... 399 



Echinoidea. 



A Mode of Feeding in a Sea-Urchin. H. N. Milligan 399 



Rate of Growth of ^c/iwMs miZtaris. H. N. Milligan 399 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS .. 400 



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