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CONTENTS. 



ethshire, 433; Common Buzzard 

 in Montgomeryshire, 435 



Wapiti, at Woburn Park, 364 



Warbler, Aquatic, in Norfolk, 466; 

 Barred, 164 ; Blackcap, newly dis- 

 covered habit in, 1 ; Garden, 6, 7, 

 8 ; Grasshopper, in Northampton- 

 shire, 59, 60,— in Oxfordshire, 222 ; 

 Icterine, song of, 194, 228, 258, 

 304, — in Norfolk, 378; Marsh, 

 nest of, 226,— nesting, 286 ; North- 

 ern Yellow, in Norway, 448 ; Or- 

 phean, in Algeria, 126 ; Kufous, 

 in Algeria, 123, 132 ; Sardinian, in 

 Algeria, 126 ; Wood, in Northamp- 

 tonshire, 57, — in Kent, 345 ; Yellow, 

 in Canada, 341 



Wasp, Giant Wood, in Durham, 391 



Wasps and their uses, 391 



Waxwing in Northamptonshire, 48, 

 49— Norfolk, 170, 178— Oxford- 

 shire, 225,— Finland, 369 



Weasels, North American, 377 



Whale, Bottle-nosed, on Lincolnshire 

 coast, 378 ; and Seal Fishery, 1895, 

 notes on, 41 



Wheatear, nest in an empty four- 

 pounder shell, 250 ; Isabelline, 294 ; 

 albino, 305 



Wigeon in Devonshire in August, 120 



Wildebeest, a wounded, figured, 116 



Wildfowl in Scotland in 1600, 273 



Woodchat in Algeria, 127, 132 



Woodcock in Norfolk, 170 



Woodpecker, Californian, 236 ; Great 

 Black, in Finland, 370; Green, 

 resorting to same nesting-site, 347 ; 

 Indian, 236 ; young Pied, in North- 

 amptonshire, 54 



Woodpeckers, can they see in the 

 dark ? 99 



Wolves in France, 17 



Wren, AVillow, abnormal nesting of, 

 102; Wood, in Co. Donegal, 195 



Xanthia ocellaris, 31 



Xema sabinii on Dorset coast, 



in Solway Firth, 294 

 Xenopus, 476 

 Xylina zinckenii, 31 



294 



Yak, 34 



Yellowhammer, 

 178 



cinnamon-coloured, 



Zebras at Lakes Kudolph and Steph- 

 anie, 29 



Zoological Gardens, acreage of prin- 

 cipal, 349 



Zosterops, 9 



Zygaena exulans, 440 



ILLUSTEATIONS. 



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Portrait of the late Lord Lilford to face 241 



Abutilon, with calyx torn by Sylvia atricapilla and Parus tenerifce . 3 

 Hibiscus rosa- sinensis, showing openings visited by Bombus and Sylvia 



atricapilla 4 



Antholyza cethiopica, showing punctures made by Sylvia hortensis . 7 



Plan of Norwich Castle and Museum 82 



Dead Giraffe, by J. G. Millais 113 



A Boi Rhebuck, ditto 115 



A wounded Wildebeest, ditto. 116 



Black Bustard, ditto 117 



Head of Blesbuck and Bontebuck, ditto. 118 



Young Spoonbills on Nest, from a photo by Reginald Lodge . . 322 



Nest of Stork with two Young, ditto 323 



