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CONTENTS. 



Boar-fish at Teigmnouth, 194 

 Boar, Wild, iu Cheshire, 164, — 



figured, 356 

 Books reviewed : — 



The Life and Correspondence of 

 William Buckland, by his 

 daughter, Mrs. Gordon, 31 



Allen's Naturalists' Library, edited 

 by B. B. Sharpe : — A Handbook 

 to the Marsupialia and Mono- 

 tremata, by Eichard Lydekker, 

 35.— Butterflies, by W. F. Kirby, 

 39.— A Handbook to the Pri- 

 mates, by H. 0. Forbes, 78. — A 

 Handbook to the British Mam- 

 malia, by E. Lydekker, 119 



Sir Victor Brooke, Sportsman and 

 Naturalist, edited by Oscar Leslie 

 Stephen, 77 



A Monograph of the Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca of the 

 British Isles, by J. W. Taylor, 

 Part I., 79 ; Part II., 462 



The Life of Eichard Owen, by his 

 grandson, the Eev. E. Owen, 117 



Summer Studies of Birds and 

 Books, by W. Warde Fowler, 159 



Catalogue of the Birds of Prey, with 

 the number of specimens in the 

 Norwich Museum, by J. H. 

 Gurney, 160 



The Anatomy, Physiology, Morph- 

 ology, and Development of the 

 Blow-fly, a Study in the Com- 

 parative Anatomy and Morph- 

 ology of Insects, by B. Thompson 

 Lowne, 199 



A Year of Sport and Natural 

 History, edited by Oswald Craw- 

 furd, 199 



Horses, Asses, Zebras, Mules, and 

 Mule-breeding, by W. B. Teget- 

 meier and C. L. Sutherland, 311 



Seventeen Trips through Somali- 

 land, with descriptive Notes on 

 the Wild Fauna of the Country, 

 by Capt. H. G. C. Swayne, E.E., 

 315 



London Birds and Beasts, by J. T. 

 Tristram Valentine, 318 



Forest Birds, their Haunts and 

 Habits : Short Studies from Na- 

 ture, by Harry P. Witherby, 319 

 In (irouseland, by Evan G. Mac- 

 kenzie, 320 



The Royal Natural History, edited 

 by Richard Lydekker, with Prc- 

 l,i ce by P. L. Sclater, 351 



Icebound on Kolguev : a Chapter in 

 the Exploration of Arctic Europe, 

 to which is added a Eecord of 

 the Natural History of the Island, 

 by Aubyn Trevor Battye, 390 

 The Fauna of British India, in- 

 cluding Ceylon and Burma, by 

 W. T. Blanford, 394 

 The New Forest, its Traditions, 

 Inhabitants, and Customs, by 

 Eose de Crespigny and Horace 

 Hutchinson, 395 

 The Pheasant, by Eev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson, A. J. Stuart Wortley, 

 and Alexander Innes Shand, 397 

 A Preliminary List of the Hem- 



iptera of Colorado, 400 

 The Natural History of Aquatic 



Insects, by Prof. L. C. Miall, 437 

 British Birds, by W. H. Hudson, 

 with a Chapter on Structure and 

 Classification, by F. E. Beddard, 

 460 

 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera, 

 by Edward Meyrick, 464 

 Bos longifrons in Cheshire, 164 ; pri- 

 migenius in Yorkshire, 121, — in 

 peat-beds in Cheshire, 164 

 Brambling in Finland, 329 

 Bream, Eay's Sea, at Scarborough, 



436 

 Breeding of Manx Shearwater in Car- 

 narvonshire, 72; Surinam Water- 

 Toad, 75 ; Grey-lag Goose in 

 Nottinghamshire, 111 ; Palaeornis 

 rosea in confinement, 230 ; Hobby 

 in Norway, 292; Eedshank in Sus- 

 sex, 309 ; Arctic Tern and Common 

 Gull in Shetland, 349 ; Goldeneye 

 in Washburn Valley, 449 ; supposed, 

 of Crested Lark in Kent, 451 

 Brock in Cheshire, 219 

 Bulweria bulweri on Salvage Islands, 



414 

 Bunting, Cirl, in Cardiganshire, 137, 

 — song of, 231 ; Lapland, in Hum- 

 ber District, 59,— in Finland, 329 ; 

 Snow, in Finland, 329 ; White- 

 throated, in Humber District, 59 

 Bustard, Great, in Norfolk, 95 ; Little, 



food of, 228 

 Butterflies, new, from Tropical South 

 Africa, 157; migration of, 276, 335, 

 386, 387, 388, 389 

 Buzzard in Wales, 179 ; Honey, nest- 

 ing in Herefordshire, 382, 433 ; 

 Bough-legged, in Wales, 180, — 

 and eggs, in Finland, 330 



