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CONTENTS. 



Whale run down by steamer, 287 

 Whalebone, nomenclature of, 40 

 Whale and Seal Fishery (1898), 103 

 Wheatear, winter occurrence of, 132 ; 



eggs, large clutch, 321 

 Whinchat, is it a mimic ?, 267, 369 

 Whitethroat, late stay, in Warwick- 

 shire, 132 ; in Malta, 258 

 Woodcock, peculiar conduct of, 370 

 Woodpecker, Green, in Ireland, 181, — 

 variety, 419, — near London, 518 ; 

 Great Spotted, in Yorkshire, 322 

 Worcestershire, North, notes on some 

 birds from, 259 



Wren, Willow, abnormal nesting, 555 



Xantholaema hsematocephala, 419 



Yarmouth, Great, Sprat banquet, 238 ; 

 notes from, 278 ; Anchovy, 558 



Zebra-Horse hybrids, 180 



Zoarces viviparus, 317 



Zoological collections of Amsterdam, 



Kotterdam, and Antwerp, 316 

 ' Zoological Kecord ' for 1897, 40 

 Zoology for pharmacists, 288 

 Zosterops. 414 ; luteus, 140 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Plate I. Eagle Bay (Dicerobatis sp.) to face 145 



„ II. Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S. . . „ 337 



,, III. The " Sea Elephant " (Macrorhinus elephantinus) ,, 385 



Spurious Flint Arrow-heads 20 



,, ,, Axes 21 



Little Bustard (Otis tetrax, Linn.) . . . . . . . 120 



