CONTENTS. 



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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Aberdeen, new Regius Prof, of Natural 

 History, 236 ; ornithological notes 

 from, 271 

 Abraxas grossulariata, 541 

 Accentor modularis, 61, 157, 161 

 Accipiter nisus, 460 

 Achetidae, 301 

 Acipenser sturio, 317 

 Acipenseridae, 347 



Acrocephalus palustris ?, 161 ; phrag- 

 mites, 157 ; streperus, 155, 156 ; 

 turdoides, 155, 161 

 Addax nasomaculatus, 318 

 iEgialitis hiaticula, 67, 74, 160 

 iEgotheles leucogaster, 140 

 African, South, beetles, 237 ; list of 



birds, 478 ; fauna, 478, 559 

 Ageronia, 532 ; feronica, 350 

 Agrotis ashworthii, 539 ; cursoria, 310 

 Ajuga charnaspitys, 446 

 Alauda arvensis, 73, 159, 163, 271, 



517 ; cristata, 163 

 Albino Stoat, 79, 179 ; Squirrel, 132 ; 

 Beaver, 220, 267; eggs of Red- 

 breast, 221 

 Alca impennis, 382 ; torda, 68, 76 

 Alcedo ispida, 160 

 Alcidae, 174, 175 

 Altai Mountains, Zoology and Botany 



of, 334 

 Amiidge, 304 

 Amsterdam, zoological collections, 



316 

 Anarrhichas lupus, 317 

 Anas boscas, 70, 73 ; intermedia, 128 ; 



punctata, 142; superciliosa, 139 

 Anchorella uncinata, 344 

 Anchovy at Great Yarmouth, 558 

 Animals, wild, our obligations to, 430 

 Annelids, new British, 262 

 Anser cinereus, 70, 224 

 Antelope protecting its young, 146 

 Anthropopithecus niger, 316 

 Anthus obscurus, 72 ; obscurus ru- 

 pestris, 61 ; pratensis, 61, 72, 87; 

 trivialis, 158, 162 

 Ants in Ceylon, 144 

 Antwerp zoological collection, 318 

 Apteryx mantelli, 317 ; oweni, 317 

 Araschnia, 460 m 



Archaeopteryx, 295, 297 



Ardea cinerea, 247 ; garzetta, 171 ; 



goliath, 217 ; purpurea, 247 

 Ardeola ralloides, 247 

 Ardetta involucris, 542 

 Arsilonche venosa, 539 

 Asio accipitrinus, 73, 115 ; america- 



nus, 544 

 Aspro vulgaris, 469 

 Astur palumbarius, 28 

 Athene noctua, 160 

 Auk, Great, sale of egg, 382 

 Australia, South, destruction of birds 



in, 46; North- West, corrections to 



notes from, 371 

 Australian Ornithology (1898), 383 

 Aviculture and its scientific status, 



273 

 Avocet in Dorset, 32 



Badgers and Foxes, 191 

 Bat, Leisler's, in Cheshire, 266 ; Sero- 

 tine, near Hastings, 266 ; Whisk- 

 ered, in captivity, 49, — death by 

 misadventure, 475 

 Bats, some habits of, 131 ; the mode 

 in which their prey is secured, 471 

 Beaver, albino, 220, 267 

 Bee-eater in Malta, 255, 257 

 Beetles, South African, 237 

 Belgium, notes on the birds of, 149 

 Bill of Grey Lag-Goose, colour of, 224 

 Biological scholasticism, 332 ; sug- 

 gestions — mimicry, 289, 341, 446, 

 529 

 Bird-life, some peculiarities of the 



season in, 271 

 Bird, stray, in Kent, 221 

 Birds, British, original sketches of, 

 1, 198, 506 ; varying fecundity in, 

 23, 86, 137, 164 ; song, and storms, 

 43 ; destruction of, in S. Australia, 

 46, -in Norfolk, 83; of Shetland, 

 notes on, 72 ; in Kensington Gar- 

 dens, 84 ; and their eggs, coloration 

 of, 108, 168 ; Passerine, on first 

 primary in, 129 ; songs of, affected 

 by weather, 135, 183, 225, 324; 

 variations in plumage of certain, 

 138 ; of Belgium, notes on, 149 ; 

 nesting, covering of eggs by, 183 ; 

 of Cheshire, 518 



