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CONTENTS. 



Mice of St. Kilda, 191 



Microgaster, 454 



Migrants in Aberdeen (1899), 271 ; 



spring, in Yorkshire, 323 

 Migrations, early spring, 193 

 Milport, Maine, Biological Station, 238 

 Milvus ictinus, 242, 244, 245, 246, 



247; Korsclmn, 241; migrans, 241, 



244, 247 ; milano, 241 

 Mimicry, 289, 341, 443, 529 

 Misocalius osculans, 140 

 Monitor, Cape, 226, 272 ; correction, 



421 

 Montagu, Col. George, 378 

 Moor-hen, nesting habits, 30, 31, 81, 



82, 557 ; eggs and nest of, 182 

 Mosquitoes, how to collect, 428 

 Motacilla alba, 61, 157, 162, 418; 



borealis, 61 ; flava, 157, 267 ; lugu- 



bris, 86, 268, 271 ; melanope, 162, 



271 ; raii, 286 

 Mouse, Long- tailed Field, climbing 



powers of, 27 

 Muller, Johannes, monument to, zoo- 

 logical sketches of, 560 

 Mungoose, Thick-tailed, habits of, in 



South Africa, 179 

 Mus sylvaticus, 27 

 Muscicapa atricapilla, 60, 134 ; gri- 



sola, 60, 85, 162, 369, 556 

 Museum Reports, &c: — 



Birmingham Nat. Hist. Collection, 

 236 



Chicago Academy of Sciences, 382 



Essex Local and Educational Mus. 

 of Nat. Hist., 288 



London School Board, 240 



Eobertson Museum, 238 

 Mussels of Mississippi River, 480 

 Mustela erminea, 79, 131, 179 ; pu- 



torius, 79 ; vison, 305 

 Mycteris longicarpus, 412 

 Mylodon, supposed existing, 380 

 Myotis daubentoni, 472; mystacinus, 



49, 131, 471, 475 

 Myxicola, 457 

 Myxine, 350 

 Myzomela nigra, 141 



Natal, zoological notes from (with 

 Plate), 145 



Nautilograpsus minutus, 536 



Nemathelminthes, 348 



Nephila, 414 



Neptunus pelagicus, 432 



Nest, strange, of South African Pied 

 Bush Shrike, 80 ; of Titlark with 

 Toad in, 87; of male Blackbird 



with stored seeds, 181 ; of Moor- 

 hen, 182; of Red-backed Shrike 

 with eggs of Cuckoo, 222, 323 ; of 

 Thrush piled up with ivy-berries, 

 320 



Nesting of Goshawk in Yorkshire, 

 28 ; habits of Moor-hen, 30, 31, 81, 

 82, 557 ; of Short-eared Owl, 121 ; 

 ofMistle-Thrush, 180; birds, cover- 

 ing of eggs by, 183 ; of Common 

 Snipe near London, 225 ; of Black 

 Kite in Verona, 241 ; of Starlings 

 in fir trees, 370 ; sites, abnormal, 

 of Willow Wren, 555 ; of Tree 

 Creeper in roof, 556 ; place, abnor- 

 mal, of Spotted Flycatcher, 556 



Nestor notabilis, 307 



Nests of Short-eared Owl, 421 



Niagara Falls, loss of avian life, 44 



Nicotiana tabacum, 348 



Nightjar in Malta, 256 ; time of 

 arrival, 369 ; Red-necked, in Malta, 

 255 



Nightjars, diary of habits, 388, 406 



Nisus sphenurus, 351 



Norfolk, ornithological record from 

 (1898), 113 ; destruction of birds, 

 114, 183 



Norway, Northern, ornithological 

 notes from, 54 



Numenius arquata, 65, 74, 271, 419 ; 

 phsBopus, 65, 74 



Nycticorax ardeola, 247 ; caledoni- 

 cus, 140 



Obituary : — 



Baur, Georg Hermann Carl Lud- 

 wig, 95 



Bonheur, Rosa, 281 



Biichner, Prof. Ludwig, 280 



Cordeaux, John, 384, 415 



Everett, Alfred Hart, 96 



Flower, Sir William Henry, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., 337 



Hewetson, Henry Hendelack, 280 



McCoy, Prof. Sir F., 280 



Marsh, Prof. O. C, 234 



Nicholson, Prof. Alleyne, 95 



Stark, A. C, Dr., 559 



Stevens, Samuel, 479 



Sykes, Christopher, 47 



Whitehead, John, 382 



Wolf, Joseph, 234 

 Ocypoda cordimana, 408 

 Oddi ornithological collection, 432 

 (Edemia nigra, 30, 80, 557 

 (Edicnemus crepitans, 545 

 Ophiderpeton, 301 



