CONTENTS. 



VI 1 



Frohawk, F. W., M.B.O.U. 



Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor) 

 in Kent, 427 

 Godfrey, Robert 



Wil'ow Wren singing in autumn, 

 513 ; Hours at which some birds 

 sing, 576 

 Grabham, Oxley, M.A. 



Vultures and the Tower of Silence, 

 143 ; Birds feeding on the larvae 

 of the Magpie-moth, 236 ; Black- 

 bird stealing eggs, 330 ; Frog 

 attacked by Weasel, and Toad 

 by Hedgehog, 369 ; Taxidermy 

 — de omnibus rebus, 412 ; Eggs 

 of the Roseate Tern, 510; Der- 

 mesteslardariuseatingspecimens 

 of moths, 521 ; Trapping Shrews 

 and Voles, 571 ; Egg-producing 

 powers of the Dipper, 575 

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



Ornithological record for Norfolk 

 for 1896, 121 ; Cuckoos sucking 

 eggs, 568 

 Gyngell, W. 



Common Swift roosting in tree, 

 468 

 Haigh, G. H. Caton 



Grey Seal in Carnarvonshire, 141 ; 

 Common Rorqual on Lincoln- 

 shire coast, 142 ; Alpine Pipit in 

 Carnarvonshire, 366 

 Hammond, W. Oxenden 



Alleged nesting of Montagu's Har- 

 rier in Kent, 363 ; Note on flight 

 of Green Sandpiper, 573 

 Harting, J. E., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Dogs of draught in Belgium, 33 

 Headley, Alec Goldney 



Distribution of worm-eating Slugs, 

 89 

 Horsbrugh, Charles Bethune 

 Hedgesparrow appropriating a 

 Thrush's nest, 427 ; " Kentish 

 Crow," 428 ; Local name of the 

 Sheldrake, 508 ; Popular fallacy 

 concerning the Cuckoo, 512 

 Kelsall, Rev. J. E. 



Aquatic Warbler in Hampshire, 

 471 ; Smooth Snake in the New 

 Forest, 475 

 Kermode, P. M. C. 



Large Holibut at Isle of Man, 235 ; 



The Porbeagle in Manx waters, 



579 



Langdale, Rev. H. Marmaduke, 



Hawfinches in West Sussex, 365 ; 



Quails in Sussex, 366; Strange 



pairing of Butterflies, 521 »* 

 Heron choked by a Frog, 572 

 Lewis, A. L., F.C.A. 



Neolithic life in Devon and Corn- 

 wall, 49 ; Peculiar nesting habit 

 of the House Sparrow, 273 

 Lewis, Stanley 



Black- winged Stilt in Somerset, 511 

 Lubbock, Sir John, Bart., M.P., 

 F.R.S. 

 On the preservation of our indi- 

 genous fauna and flora, 264 

 McLachlan, R., F.R.S. 



A second brood of Starlings, 334 

 Macpherson, Rev. H. A., M.A. 

 Eared Grebe in Cumberland, 83 ; 

 The Germon in British waters, 

 580 

 Marshall, Guy A. K., F.E.S. 



Stridulation of Cicadidae in Ma- 

 shunuland, 517 

 Martin, Basil W. 



Birds seen in the Yukon District of 

 Canada, 430 

 Mason, Philip B., Dr., F.L.S. 



Strange discovery of a Tit's nest, 

 167 

 Mathew, Rev. Murray A., M.A. 

 Icterine Warbler at Lyme Regis, 

 332; Garden lists of birds, 417 

 Meiklejohn, A. H. 



Toad attacked by a Weasel, 339 ; 

 Summer appearance of Wild 

 Geese in Fifeshire, 363 

 Morley, John 



Golden Eagle in Ross-shire, 425 

 Murie, Dr. James, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Our Economic Sea-fishes, 389 

 Newstead, R., F.E.S. 



On the position of the Leseer 

 Horse-shoe Bat (Rhinolphus hip- 

 posideros, Bechst.) during hiber- 

 nation, 537 

 Nicholson, F. G. 



Egg of South African Golden 

 Cuckoo in nest of Cape Wagtail, 

 142 

 Norgate, Frank 



Human bones at Bromehill, 164 

 Nunn, H. 



Occurrence of a rare Plover (Cha- 

 radrius dominicus) on the River 

 Thames, 330 

 Oldham, Charles 



Daubenton's Bat on the Derby- 

 shire and Staffordshire border, 

 326 ; Bank Vole in Denbighshire, 

 328; Scaup inland in Lancashire, 

 62 



