CONTENTS. 



XI 



The House Sparrow (the Avian 

 Kat) in relation to Agriculture 

 and Gardening, with Practical 

 Suggestions for Lessening its 

 Numbers, by W. B. Tegetrneier, 

 375 



A List of British Birds belonging 

 to the Humber District (having a 

 special reference to their Migra- 

 tions), by John Cordeaux, 375 



Faune de France, contenant la de- 

 scription de toutes les especes 

 indigenes disposees en tableaux 

 analytiques et illustree de figures 

 representant les types caracteris- 

 tiques des genres et des sous- 

 genres, par A. Acloque, Preface 

 de Ed. Perrier, 376 



Cries and Call-Notes of Wild Birds, 

 by C. A. Witchell, 376 



All about Birds, by W. Percival- 

 Westell, 377 



The Fauna of Shropshire, by H. 

 Edward Forrest, 423 



The Birds of Breconshire, by E. 

 Cambridge Phillips, 424 



Lancashire Sea Fisheries, by Chas. 

 L. Jackson, 426 



A Handy Book of Fishery Manage- 

 ment, by J. W. Willis Bund, 427 



Bird-life in an Arctic Spring, 428 



Naturae Novitates, 479 



A Dictionary of Birds, by Alfred 

 Newton, assisted by Hans Ga- 

 dow, with contributions from R. 

 Lydekker, C. S. Roy, and R. W. 

 Shufeldt, 520 



Man, Past and Present, by A. H. 

 Keane, 521 



The Distribution of the Negritos in 

 the Philippine Islands and Else- 

 where, by A. B. Meyer, 523 



The Natural History of Selborne, 

 by Gilbert White, edited, with 

 notes, by Grant Allen, 523 



The North American Slime-Moulds, 

 by Thomas H. Macbride, 524 



Bird Stuffing and Mounting, 525 

 Bos americanus, 316, 318 ; bonassus, 



316, 318 ; depressicornis, 316 

 Botaurus minutus, 542 ; stellaris, 542 

 Bot-Fly, damage caused by, 336 

 Brachioptilon hamiltoni, 146 

 Brachydices, 301 

 Brachypternus aurantius, 419 

 Bradyornis silens, 80 

 Breeding of Tufted Duck in South- 

 west Derbyshire, 476 



Bryozoa, 536 

 Bubalus pumilus, 318 

 Bufo calamita, 87, 318 ; vulgaris, 97, 98 

 Bunting, Cirl, in North Cheshire, 

 222 ; in Carnarvonshire, 322 ; pro- 

 bably often overlooked, 418 

 Bustard, Little, at Lowestoft, 31 

 Buteo lagopus, 557 ; vulgaris, 160, 

 241, 247, 250 



Caccabis saxatilis, 177 



Cacomantis pallidus, 141 



Calidris arenaria, 140, 142 



Caligus curtus, 344; mulleri, 344 



Callista fastuosa, 325 



Camelus bactrianus, 306 



Campephaga leucomela, 140 



Camponotus ebeninus (foveolatus), 

 452 ; lateralis, 452 



Canchroma cochlearia, 317 



Canis niger, 318 ; pallipes, 552 ; vul- 

 pes, 192 



Caprellidae, 290 



Caprimulgus europaeus, 369, 388, 406 



Capsella bursa-pastoris, 348 



Capsidae, 357 



Carabus stenocephalus, 310 



Cardinal, Red-headed, longevity of, 

 275 



Caspian and Baltic Seas, comparison 

 of faunas, 528 



Castor canadensis, 220, 267 



Casuarius bennetti, 543 



Catastomidae, 304 



Catharista atra, 317 



Cats in London, 78 



Cattle, White, their origin and his- 

 tory, 41 ; the Chartley, 333 



Caulerpa, 464 



Ceraloptera vampyrus, 146 



Ceratobasis robertsii, 146 



Ceratobatrachus guentheri, 542 



Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, 448 



Cercopithecus brazzae, 318 



Certhia familiaris, 157, 556 



Cerura furcula, 538 ; venula, 468 



Cervicapra arundinum, 146 



Chaetophorus cretiferus, 538 



Charadrius morinellus, 169 ; orien- 

 talis, 142 ; pluvialis, 66, 74 



Chartley White Cattle, 333 



Chelidon urbica, 158, 162 



Chelys fimbriata, 450 



Cheshire, birds of, 518 



Chiffchaff, early appearance in War. 

 wickshire, 132, 134 ; building on 

 small yew and box trees, 517, 555 



Chironomus, 352 



