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CONTENTS. 



Breeding Habits of the Sparrow- Hawk, W. Ruskin Butterfield, M.B.O.U., 



and A. Holte Macpherson, B.C.L., F.Z.S. 61 



Collecting at Shoal Lake, Manitoba, W. Raine ... ... ... ... ... 66 



Observations and Queries : — 



Eggs of the Redstart, H. S. Davenport ; Bearded Titmouse in Middlesex, 

 H. T. Booth ; Arrival of Summer Migrants at Staines, Graham W. 

 Kerr; at Malahide, Co. Dublin, J. Trumbull, L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. : 

 Notes from Co. Donegal, G. E. H. Barrett- Hamilton, M.B.O.U. '; 

 Lincolnshire Notes, Miss M. L. Anderson ; The Rook as a Corn- 



Stealer, 0. V. Aplin, F.L.S. and The Editor 72 



Notices of New Books.. 74 



Notes and News ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 76 



Gleanings ' ... 78 



Rough Notes from North Wales, John A. Biuknill, B.A 78 



BOOKS, &c, RECEIVED. 



The Animals Guardian, Vol. VI., N0.-7, April, 1896. The Editor, London. 

 British Birds, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., &c. Vols. I., II., and III., 6s. per Vol. London : 

 W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd. 



The Naturalist, No. 250, May, 1896. The Editors, Leeds. 



The Naturalist's Journal, No. 47, May, 1896. S. L. Mosley, F.E.S., Huddersfield. 



North British Daily Mail. A. Somerville, F.E.S. 



Nature Notes, No. 77, May, 1896. London : J. Bale & Sons. 



The Iowa Ornithologist. D. L. Savage, Salem, la. 



Yorkshire IVeekly Post. G. W. Murdoch. 



The Irish Naturalist. Dublin : Eason & Sons, Ltd. 



The Pigeon Cltib: Annual Report for 1896. Hon. Secretary, 78, Clissold Road, N. 



Ready Jnne 6th, Price 3/6. 



.A. COUCISE 



HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS, 



BY H. K, SWANN. 



London: JOHN WHELDON & CO., 58, Gt. Queen St., ■W.C., 



And all Booksellers. 



A, LIONEL CLARKE, 



Natural History Agent, Barton Street, Gloucester. 



LEPIDOPTERA. COLEOPTERA. PRESERVED LARVAE. 

 BIRDS SKINS AND BIRDS' EGGS. 



Collectors of Birds' Eggs should not fail to obtain the latest revised List of Prices of the 

 finest Stock possible to select from. Full List of Clutches will be sent if asked for. 



N.B. — All orders guaranteed and subject to customers' approval. 



Cabinets and all Apparatus in stock. Fine 11 drawer Egg Cabinets, 38 x 26 x 18, 



with 371 divisions (no machine work), drawers sliding in grooves, £3 10s. 



References to distinguished patrons permitted. 



Full general Catalogue, also revised List of Eggs and Skins, sent Post Free. 



Estak. 1868. Telegrams — ''Thorpe, Naturalist, Croydon." 



CHARLES THORPE, Naturalist (late of the Crystal Palace), 



College Buildings, George Street, CROYDON. 



Every description of Apparatus for the Entomologist, Taxidermist, &c. , supplied 

 at lowest London prices. Birds, Animals, and Fish Preservation a speciality (Chas. 

 Thorpe is famous for his artistic treatment of Birds). Animals' heads and horns 

 mounted as wall trophies. Fur Skins dressed and made into carnage and other rugs. 

 Collections of Lepidoptera, Birds' Skins (and well-stuffed specimens of Birds), Birds" 

 Eggs, &c, on sale. 



Extract from Daily Telegraph on Sporteries Exhibition. 1894. — "Great praise is 

 due to Mr. Charles Thorpe, for his collection of Deer, Bu^alo, Zebra, Wild Boar, 

 Leopard, and other specimens, but still greater honour is due him for the admirable 

 group of British Wildfowl." 



