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CONTENTS. 



329 ; Night Heron in Derbyshire, 

 329 ; Black Tern in Anglesea, 

 329 ; Black-throated Diver in 

 Derbyshire, 426 ; Lesser Shrew 

 in Devon, 467 

 Overton, E. P. 



Little Gull and Red-necked Phala- 

 rope in Sussex, 468 

 Page, W. T. 



The Magpie-moth eaten by birds, 

 169 ; Avicultural notes, 338 

 Patterson Arthur 



Occurrence of the Cuckoo Ray at 

 Great Yarmouth, 235 ; Bull-dog ! 

 variety of the Sapphirine Gur- | 

 nard at Great Yarmouth, 275 ; j 

 Notes from Great Yarmouth, 

 339; Meristic variation in the 

 Edible Crab, 303 ; The Marine 

 and Fresh-water Fishes of Great 

 Yarmouth, its neighbouring 

 coasts, rivers, and Broads, 539 

 Pentland, G. H. 



Stock- Dove in Ireland, 88 

 Playne, Herbert C. 



Ornithological notes from Corsica, 

 254 ; Memory for locality in a 

 Nightjar, 330; A walk across 

 Lapland, 498 

 Pocock, R. I. 



Trapping Shrews and Voles, 507 

 Potter, E. G. 



Breeding of the Roseate Tern in 

 Britain, 165 ; The eggs of the 

 Roseate Tern, 467 

 Quintin, W. H. St., F.Z.S. 



Unusual sites chosen by birds for 

 their nests, 430 

 Ralfe, P. 



On Manx bird-names, 71 ; Orni- 

 thological folk-lore, 168 

 Ramsbotham, W. 



Wasp, Tipula, and Spider, 475 

 Read, Robert H. 



Birdsnesting in August, 430 

 Rendall, Percy, M.D., F.Z.S. 



Natural History notes from the 

 West Indies, 341 ; Field notes 

 on some West Indian birds, 

 444; Stridulation of Cicadidae, 

 520 

 Renshaw, Graham 



Change of plumage in the Non- 

 pareil Finch, 273 

 Riviere, Bernard B. 



Arrival of summer migrants in 

 Gloucestershire, 274 ; Unusual 

 position for the eggs of the 



Starling, Song Thrush, and 

 Sparrow, 334; Hours at which 

 some birds commence to sing, 

 472; Roosting of the Swift, 

 511 ; Strange nesting habits of 

 Nuthatch and Starling, 514; 

 Egg-producing powers of birds, 

 575 

 Roberts, T. Vaughan 



Survival of the Kingfisher, 469 

 Rope, G. T. 



Early Snails, 236 ; Enemies of the 

 Toad, 432 

 Salter, J. H. 



Ornithological notes from the 

 Rhine, 61 

 Schonland, S., Ph.D., F.L.S. 



Notes on the Chacma Baboon 

 and the Maanhaar Jackal, &c, 

 155 

 Schreiner, S. C. Cronwright 



The Ostrich, 97 

 Sclater, P. L., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 On the distribution of Marine 

 Mammalia, 217 

 Scott, Rev. S. G. 



Aquatic Warbler in Hampshire, 

 471 

 Severin, G. 



Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle 

 de Belgique, 80 

 Sich, H. L. 



Polydactylism in the Horse, 270 

 Smith, G. W. 



Winter notes from Winchester 

 Water- meads, 34; Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo in the Isle of Wight, 

 142; The Ostrich, 167; Albino 

 Badger in Hants, 327 ; Notes 

 from Mid-Hants, spring and 

 summer, 1897, 460 ; Note on 

 Pied and Grey Wagtails in the 

 Itchen Valley, 513 

 Southwell, Thomas, F.Z.S. 



On the occurrence of Pallas's 

 Willow Warbler in Norfolk, 8; 

 Notes on the Seal and Whale 

 fishery, 1896, 56, 142; Fen 

 versus Marsh, 437; Thresher 

 Shark and Angel-fish at Lowe- 

 stoft, 475; An unrecorded Nor- 

 folk Great Bustard, 572 ; Occur- 

 rence of the Mediterranean 

 Herring Gull (Larus cachin- 

 nans) in Norfolk, 572 

 Stead, David G. 



The Australian " Rock-Lizard,' 

 233 



