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CONTENTS. 



Grouse, 32 ; Polecat, 102 ; ornitho- 

 logical notes, 104 ; British Marten, 

 161 ; local lists of mammals, rep- 

 tiles, and fishes, 179, 185, 241, 244, 

 247, 254, 258 ; Dunlin, 269 ; Grass- 

 hopper Warbler, 269; Kite, 311, 

 355; Lesser Whitethroat, 395; 

 Pied Flycatcher, 420 ; Bed-necked 

 Phalarope, 428 ; Eossia Oweni, 

 436 ; birds of Pembrokeshire, 460 



Warbler, Blackcap, in Co. Wicklow, 

 225, — on a newly observed habit 

 in, 169, 269; Grasshopper, near 

 Brecon, 269 ; Marsh, in Oxford- 

 shire, 303 



Warwickshire. — Wagtail, 30; local 

 lists of mammals, 185 ; Black Tern, 

 395 ; Tufted Duck, 429 



Waxwing in Staffordshire, 109, — in 

 Cambridgeshire, 109, — near Har- 

 wich, 109, 149,— in Co. Wicklow, 

 109, — in Caithness, 148, — in Suf- 

 folk, 148,— in Essex, 149,— in Sus- 

 sex, 149 



Westmoreland. — Ptarmigan, 97 ; local 

 lists of mammals, reptiles, and 

 fishes, 185, 247, 258 



Westwood, Prof. J.O., memoir of, 99 



Whale, Bottle-nosed, on Lincolnshire 

 coast, 20 ; Hump-backed, on coast 

 of Sligo, 188 ; Sowerby's, on Nor- 

 folk coast, 41 ; and Seal fishery of 

 1892, 81 



Whales and Seals, 388 



White, Gilbert, centenary anni- 

 versary of, 201, 264, 290; and his 

 Sussex connexions, 295, 441 



Whitethroat, Lesser, in Co. Durham, 



74, 107,— in North of England, 

 106, — breeding in Carnarvonshire, 

 395 



Wild Birds Protection Act, proposed 

 amendment of, 172, 359 ; animals, 

 destruction of, in India, 394 



Wiltshire. — Bittern, 24; local lists 

 of mammals, reptiles, and fishes, 

 185, 248, 259 



Woodchat in Worcestershire, 458 



Woodcock, variety of, 109 



Woodpecker, Black, in New Forest, 

 395 ; Greater Spotted, early nesting 

 of, 269, — killing a young Pheasant, 

 310 



Worcestershire. — Local lists of mam- 

 mals, reptiles, and fishes, 186, 248, 

 259; Quail, 306; Hobby, 312; 

 Woodchat, 458 



Wren, Willow, in winter, 109 ; Wood, 

 in Co. Wicklow, 225 



Yew, animals poisoned by, 146 

 Yorkshire. — Ornithological notes, 3 ; 

 Euthemisto compressa, 7 ; Mac- 

 queen's Bustard, 21 ; Garganey, 73, 

 105 ; Sirex gigas and Colias edusa, 

 76 ; animals poisoned by yew, 146 ; 

 Zonotrichia albicollis, 149 ; local 

 lists of mammals, reptiles, and 

 fishes, 186, 248, 259 ; Bing Ouzel, 

 192; Black Bedstart, 224 ; Lapland 

 Bunting, 225 ; Scandinavian Bock 

 Pipit, 227 ; Black Tern, 308 



Zonotrichia albicollis in Holderness, 



149 

 Zoology, marine, of Irish Sea, 387 



