VI 



CONTENTS. 



the New Forest, 417 ; Swallows 

 and Hobbies, 517 

 Cordeaux, John, F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U. 



Early spring migrations, 193 

 Coward, T. A. 



Leisler's Bat in Cheshire, 266 ; 

 Birds of Cheshire, 518 

 Crawshay, William T. 



White Wagtails in Co. Cork, 418 

 Davenport, H. S. 



Original sketches of British birds, 1, 

 198, 506 ; Songs of birds affected 

 by weather, 183 

 Davies, Basil 



Fecundity in birds, 8(5 ; Fecundity 

 in each avine species varying 

 according to accidents of locality, 

 164 

 Delves, William 



White eggs of Redbreast (Erithacus 

 rubecula), 221 

 Distant, W. L. 



Notes on gigantic specimens of the 

 Eagle Ray or Devil-fish, 146 ; 

 The Meer-Kat, 179 ; White eggs 

 of Redbreast, 221 ; Cape Monitor, 

 226 ; Biological suggestions — 

 Mimicry, 289, 341, 443, 529 ; "A 

 proposed correction," 372; The 

 " Sea-Elephant " (Macrorhinus 

 elephantinus), 385 ; Memoir of 

 John Cordeaux, 415 ; Cape Scops 

 Owl (Scops capensis) in captivity, 

 420 

 Duthie, W. H. M. 



Toad in nest of Titlark, 87 

 Elliott, J. Steele- 



Great Grey Shrike in Warwick- 

 shire, 79 ; Early appearance of 

 Chiffchaff in Warwickshire, 134 ; 

 Common Crossbill in Worcester- 

 shire, 222 

 Farman, Last C. 



Notes from the Haddiscoe Marshes 

 (Norfolk), 366 [Mus. 



Finn, F., B.A., F.Z.S., Dep. Sup. Ind. 

 Swifts fighting, 418 ; Is the Whin- 

 chat a mimic ? 475 

 Fitch, Edward A., F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 Gattoruginous Blenny in Essex, 

 326 

 Fowler, W. Warde, M.A. 



Regularity of the Greenfinch in 

 beginning his song, 135 ; Thrush's 

 nest piled up with ivy-berries, 

 320; Songs of birds affected by 

 temperature, 324 ; Swallows and 

 Hobbies, 476 



Fox, W. Stores, M.A., F.Z.S. 



Varying fecundity in birds, 23 ; 

 Nesting habits of the Moor-hen, 

 31 ; The coloration of British 

 birds and their eggs, 168 ; The 

 delinquencies of Starlings, 268 

 Feiend, Rev. Hildeeic 



New British Annelids, 262 

 Godfeey, Robeet 



Is the Whinchat a mimic ? 267 

 Geabham, Oxley, M.A., M.B.O.U. 

 Food of Grebes, 32 ; Polecats in 

 Wales, 79 ; White Stoat, 79 ; Some 

 habits of Bats, 131 ; Albino 

 Squirrel in Wiltshire, 132; Ab- 

 normal nesting-sites of the Wil- 

 low Wren, 555 

 Geaves, F. S. 



Notes on Shetland birds, 72 

 Gueney, J. H., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Ornithological record from Norfolk 

 for 1898, 113 

 Haagner, Alwin C. 



Habitat of the Thick-tailed Mun- 

 goose (Cynictis penicillata), 179; 

 Note on the Cape Monitor (Va- 

 ranus albigularis), 226, 421 ; Cape 

 Scops Owl (Scops capensis) in 

 captivity, 420; The Suricate in 

 the Transvaal, 516 

 Haigh, G. H. Caton 



Flamingo in Merionethshire, 29 

 Hartert, Ernst, Dir. Z. Mus. Tring 

 On the first primary in Passerine 

 birds, 129 

 Hkadley, Alec Goldney 



Scoters in South Hants ('?), 30 

 Horsbrugh, Charles Bethune 

 Curious variety of the Green Wood- 

 pecker, 419 ; Great Wood-boring 

 Wasp (Sirex gigas) in Ireland, 

 421 

 Howard, H. E. 



Notes on some birds from North 

 Worcestershire, 259 ; Ornitho- 

 logical notes from the north- 

 west of Ireland, 481 [F.L.S. 

 Jones, K. Hurlstone, M.B., R.N., 

 The eggs and nest of the Moor-hen, 

 182 ; Albino of the Beaver, 267 ; 

 Curlew (Numenius arquata) at 

 sea, 419 ; Vanessa atalanta twen- 

 ty miles from land, 422; The 

 Storm Petrel (Procellaria pela- 

 gica) flying at light, 557 

 Jourdain, Francis C. R. 



Breeding of ^the Tufted Duck in 

 south-west;Derbyshire, 476 



