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Act (1880) Amendment, 170, 821 ; 

 observed in district of Barmouth, 

 328,— in Mid- Wales, 406 ; autumn 

 song, 410 ; nesting near Epsom, 

 429; of Staffordshire, 279 ; of Isle 

 of Man, 386 ; of West Cheshire, 

 395 ; of Denbighshire, 397 ; of 

 Flintshire, 397 ; of Rainham, 434 ; 

 of Pembrokeshire, 437 

 Bird-skins from Greenland, 56 

 Bison heads from Lithuania, figured, 



353 

 Bittern in Oxfordshire, 93, — in Hants, 

 302, — nesting in Hants, 311, — in 

 Surrey, 110, 429 ; breeding in con- 

 finement, 88 ; Little, in Norfolk, 88, 

 — in Sussex, 454,— attitudes of, ob- 

 served in captivity, 454 

 Blackbird, variety, 91, 1C0 

 " Blood-olph," a name for Bullfinch, 



22 

 Bonito in Solway Firth, 397 

 Books reviewed : — 



Horns and Hoofs ; or, Chapters on 

 Hoofed Animals, by R. Lydekker, 

 31 

 Travel and Adventure in South- 

 east Africa, by F. C. Selous, 85 

 The Tercentenary Edition of the 

 Complete Angler, or Contem- 

 plitive Man's Recreation, by 

 Isaak Walton and Charles Cotton, 

 edited by J. E. Harting, 70 

 Monograph of the North American 

 Proc.totrypidse, by William H. 

 Ashmead, 76 

 The Birds of Derbyshire, by F. B. 



Whitlock, 78, 110 

 Les Coijuilles des Eaux Douces et 

 Saumatres de France, par Ar- 

 nould Locard, 79 

 Bird Life in Arctic Norway, by 

 Robert Collett, translated by A. 

 H. Cocks, 121 

 Text-book of Zoology, by H. A. 



Nicholson, 198 

 The Partridge, by Rev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson, A. J. Stuart Wortley, 

 and George Saintsbury, 199 

 Life and Rock, a Collection of Zoo- 

 logical and Geological Essays, by 

 R. Lydekker, 236 

 Lost British Birds, by W. H. Hud- 

 son, 239 

 The Birds of the County Cork, by R. 



J. Ussher, 240 

 Five Months' Sport in Somali-land, 

 by Lord Wolverton, 275 



The Hawks and Owls of the United 

 States in their relation to Agri- 

 culture, by Dr. Hart Merriam 

 and A. K. Fisher, 277 

 Ornithology in relation to Agricul- 

 ture and Horticulture, by various 

 writers, edited by John Watson, 

 278 

 The Birds of Staffordshire, with 

 illustrations of local Bird-haunts, 

 by Alexander McAldowie, 279 

 The Royal Natural History, edited 

 by Richard Lydekker, with Pre- 

 face by P. L. Sclater, 316 

 British Birds, being Coloured Illus- 

 trations of all the Species of 

 Passerine Birds resident in the 

 British Isles, with some Notes in 

 reference to then Plumage, by 

 Claude W. Wyatt, 317 

 Alternating Generations, a Biolo- 

 gical Study of Oak-galls and Gall- 

 flies, by Hermann Adler, 319 

 The Badminton Library : Big-game 

 Shooting, by various contri- 

 butors, edited by C. Phillipps- 

 Wolley, 347 

 Game Birds and Shooting Sketches : 

 illustrating the Habits, mode of 

 Capture, stages of Plumage, and 

 the Hybrids and Varieties which 

 occur amongst them, by John 

 Guille Millars, 354 

 The Grouse, by the Rev. H. Mac- 

 pKerson, A. J. Stuart Wortley, 

 and George Saintsbury, 358 

 Birds of West Cheshire, Denbigh- 

 shire and Flintshire, 397 

 Notes on the Birds of Rainham, 

 including the Distuct between 

 Chatham and Sittingbourne, by 

 Walter Prentis, 484 

 The Birds of Pembrokeshire and 

 its Islands, by the Rev. Murray 

 A. Mathew, M.A., 437 

 A Reprint of the 'North American 

 Zoology,' by George Ord, with an 

 Appendix by Samuel S. Rhoads, 

 466 

 Allen's Naturalist's Library, edited 

 by R. B. Sharpe: A Handbook 

 to the Birds of Great Britain, by 

 R. B. Sharpe, 468 

 Breeding of Green Woodpecker, 

 Grasshopper Warbler, Common 

 Snipe, Bullfinch, Nightjar, Dab- 

 chick, Lesser Whitethroat, King- 

 fisher, and Mallard at Epsom, 25 ; 



