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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Alderson, H. 



Wonderful egg-producing powers 

 of the Wryneck, 511 

 Aplin, 0. V., F.L.S., M.B.O.U. 

 The autumn song of birds, 410; 

 Nesting of the Great Northern 

 and Black-throated Divers in 

 Shetland, 425 ; Stridulation of 

 Cicadidse and Oithoptera, 432 

 Bankes, A. 



Egg-producing powers of the com- 

 mon Redshank, 575 

 Barrington, R. M., LL.D., F.L.S. 

 Mealy Redpoll off coast of Kerry, 

 513 ; Supposed occurrence of a 

 Great Spotted Cuckoo in Co. 

 Kerry, 574 

 Bartlett, Edward 



Obituary notice of Abraham Dee 

 Bartlett, 267 

 Baylis, E. 



Honey Buzzard in Staffordshire, 

 232 

 Bean, Tarleton H., M.D. 

 A gigantic Lobster, 276 

 Bird, Rev. M. C. H., M.A. 



Ornithological folk-lore, 144 

 Bonhote, J. Lewis 



Breeding of Corncrakes in con- 

 finement, 35 

 Brabrook, E. W., C.B., F.S.A. 



Man in Zoology, 13 

 Bradshaw, George W. 



Rare birds at Hastings, 86 ; 

 Swallow-tailed Kite in Suffolk, 

 363 ; Common Roller in Sussex, 

 469 

 Brown, J. A. Harvie, F.R.S.E. 



The migration of birds, 505 

 Burr, Malcolm, F.Z.S. 



The stridulation of Orthoptera, 516 



Butler, A. G., Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Flight of the Swift, 36; Foreign 



Finches in confinement, 251 ; 



Inherited instinct in birds, 275 ; 

 Change of Plumage in the 

 American Nonpareil Finch, 335 ; 

 Inherited habit in birds, 367 



Butler, Lieut. -Col. E. A. 



Honey Buzzard in Suffolk, 425 



Butterfield, W. C. J. Ruskin 

 The Serotine near Hastings, 141 ; 

 Bank Vole in Jersey, 141 ; 

 Swallow-tailed Kite in Suffolk, 

 270; Occurrence of the Black- 

 headed Bunting in Sussex, 273 ; 

 " The seasonal changes in the 

 Common Squirrel," 424 ; Hy- 

 polais polyglotta in Sussex, 513 



Buttress, Bernard A. E. 



A list of birds observed in Shet- 

 land, May and June, 1897, 360 ; 

 Black-throated Diver breeding 

 in Shetland, 364 ; Curlew laying 

 five eggs, 364 ; Nesting of the 

 Great Northern and Black- 

 throated Divers in Shetland, 509 



Calvert, R. U. 



Spotted Flycatcher's nest con- 

 structed in nest of Hawfinch, 

 426 ; Proximity of Magpie's and 

 Wood Pigeon's nests, 427 ; 

 Sparrowhawk nesting in Thorn - 

 tree, 508; Nesting of the Great 

 Plover, 511 ; Do Cuckoos suck 

 eggs? 513 



Chapman, Frank M. 



Mammals of Trinidad, 424 



Clarke, W. J. 



Little Auks and Little Gulls at 

 Scarborough, 166 ; Red-legged 

 Partridge migrating, 166 ; Notes 

 from Scarborough, 578 



Clarke, W. G. 



Stone Curlews as observed around 



Thetford, 248 ; Curious nests 



and nesting sites observed near 



Thetford, 449 ; The inland breed- 



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