CONTENTS. 



Northamptonshire, 47 ; in Oxford- 

 shire, 224 ; in Berwickshire, 272 

 Blackbird, nest of, on ground, 372 

 Blackbuck at "Woburn Park, 366 

 Blackcap in Algeria, 133 

 Blackcock in the Alps, 312 

 Blackgame in Lancashire, 18 ; in 

 Northamptonshire, 51 ; in Me- 

 rionethshire, 350 

 Blackgrouse and Pheasant, hybrid, 



106 

 Blesbuck, head of, figured, 118 

 Bluethroat in Finland, 369 

 Boar in Holland, 330 

 Bombus, large species of, 2, 4 

 Bontebuck, head of, figured, 118 

 Books Beviewed : — 



Sport on the Pamirs and the 

 Turkistan Steppes, by Major C. 

 Cumberland, 32 

 Birds from Moidart and elsewhere, 

 drawn from Nature by Mrs. 

 Hugh Blackburn, 36 

 A Breath from the Veldt, by John 



Guille Millais, 111 

 Supplement to the 'Birds of De- 

 von,' by W. S. M. D'Urban and 

 Murray A. Mathew, 119 

 Hunting in Many Lands, edited by 

 Theodore Roosevelt and George 

 Bird Grinnell, 157 

 A Naturalist in Mid Africa, by G. 



F. Scott Elliott, 159 

 The Life of Joseph Wolf, Animal 



Painter, by A. H. Palmer, 198 

 The Hare, by the Bev. H. A. 

 Macpherson, Hon. Gerald Las- 

 celles, Charles Bichardson, G. H. 

 Longman, and G. S. Gibbons, 268 

 The Birds of Berwickshire, by 



George Muirhead, 271 

 The Evolution of Bird- Song, with 

 Observations on the Influence 

 of Heredity and Imitation, by 

 Charles A. Witchell, 275 

 The Wild Cat of Europe, by Ed- 

 ward Hamilton, 308 

 Sport in the Alps in the Past and 

 Present, by W. A. Baillie Groh- 

 man, 312 

 British Birds' Nests — how, where, 

 and when to find them, by R. 

 and C. Kearton, 319 

 Text-book of Zoology, by Dr. J. 

 E. V. Boas, translated by J. W. 

 Kirklady and E. C. Pollard, 392 

 A Geographical History of Mam- 

 mals, by R. Lydekker, 394 



Wild Life of Scotland, by J. H. 

 Crawford, 397 



Bos grunniens in the Kobrang Val- 

 ley, 34 



Boselaphus tragocamelus at Woburn 

 Park, 366 



Bot-fly, new British, parasitic on Red 

 Deer, 154 



Bouquetin, 312, 318 



Braconidae, British, monograph, 440 



Breeding of Redshank on Romney 

 Marsh, 248; Wall Creeper, 290; 

 Sand Grouse in captivity, 298; 

 Hedgesparrows on Bass Rock, 304, 

 358 ; Sorex araneus, 432 ; haunts of 

 Ross's Gull, 436 



Bubo maculosus, 163 



Budytes borealis in Norway, 448 



Bulbul, Dusky, in Algeria, 126 



Bullfinch, black, 49 



Bunting, Cirl, in Mid Wales, 25, — in 

 Algeria, 133 ; Corn, in Algeria, 132 ; 

 Snow, captured off Cape Race, 

 27, — in Northamptonshire, 48, — at 

 mouth of Thames, 143, — in Oxford- 

 shire, 225 



Bustard, evening "play" of, 116; 

 Black, figured, 117 ; Great, in 

 Berwickshire, 274 ; Macqueen's, in 

 Holderness, 433, — photographs of, 

 438 



Butterflies, African, seasonal dimor- 

 phism in, 31 ; in Arabia and 

 Somaliland, 107 ; in Old Calabar, 

 148; at Coomassie, 154; of St. 

 Vincent, Grenada, &c, 198 ; ex- 

 tinction of certain British, 240 ; of 

 Gibraltar, 267 ; Tropical American, 

 geographical distribution of homce- 

 chromatic groups of, 268 ; hiberna- 

 tion of, 288 



Buzzard in Mid Wales, 25 ; in Mont- 

 gomeryshire, 435 ; Honey, reported 

 occurrence in Hertfordshire, 382, 

 435 ; Rough-legged, in Norfolk, 176 



Caccabis petrosa and C. rufa in Al- 

 geria, 130 



Camels, Wild, at Bashkiok, 83 



Canadian Ornithology, 340 



Canidae, tooth genesis in, 236 



Capercaillie, 312 



Capitonidae, 237 



Caraphractus cinctus, 235 



Carduelis elegans in Algeria, 128 ; 

 spinus and Linota cannabina, hy- 

 brid, 106 



Carlisle Natural History Museum, 292 



