CONTENTS. 



IX 



Stebbing, Eev. T. E. E., M.A., 

 F.E.S., F.L.S. 

 From Buffon to Darwin, 312 

 Strickland, T. A. Gerald, F.E.S. 



Frog attacked by a Eat, 169 

 Sutton, James 

 Asterias tessellata, or Scutellated 

 Star-fish, 170; The Common 

 Cockroach, 370 

 Teesdale, John H. 



Montagu's Harrier breeding in 

 Ireland, 467 

 Ticehurst, A. F. 

 Breeding of the Common Snipe 

 in Eomney Marsb, 271; Eare 

 Warblers in Sussex, 333 

 Tuck, Eev. Julian G., M.A. 



White Wagtail nesting in Suffolk, 

 233 ; Strange occurrence of an 

 Albatross in Cambridgeshire, 

 363 ; Cuckoo's egg in nest of 

 Song Thrush, 364 ; Garden lists 

 of birds, 474 ; Fork-tailed Petrel 

 in E. Suffolk, 509 ; Green Wood- 

 pecker boring in November, 

 573 

 Walker, J. J., E.N., F.L.S. 



A flying visit to Dirk Hartog and 

 the Houtman's Abrolhos Islands, 

 Western Australia, 293 

 Warren, Eobert 



Fulmar and Surf Socter in Cos. 

 Sligo and Mayo, 84 ; Unusually 

 large numbers of Pintails in Co. 

 Mayo, 143 ; On the breeding 

 range of the Yellow Wagtail in 

 Ireland, 346 



Watt, Hugh Boyd 



Local name of the Sheldrake, 571 

 Whitaker, F. 



Little Owl near Newark-on-Trent, 

 329; Variety of Grasshopper 

 Warbler, 333 ; Eed-backed Shrike 

 near Eainworth, 334 

 Whitlock, F. B. 



The breeding habits of the Purple 

 Heron, 407 

 Williams, E. 



Hybrids in St. Stephen's Green 

 Park, Dublin, 329 

 Wilson, William 



An unfortunate Cuckoo, 272 ; Young 

 Cuckoo in nest of Twite, 365 ; 

 Appearance of migrants in Aber- 

 deenshire during 1896 and 1897, 

 366 

 Witchell, Charles A. 



The voices of the Blackbird and 

 the Nightingale compared, 331 ; 

 Variations of habit in the Blue 

 Titmouse, 333 ; The song of the 

 Greenfinch, 335 ; The autumn 

 song of birds, 358, 471 ; The Dic- 

 tionary of British Bird-song, 578 

 Wollaston, A. 



A walk across Lapland, 498 

 Wood, Surg.-Capt. Henry S. 



Description of, and Natural His- 

 tory notes on, the Burmese 

 Wild Bull, 489 

 Young, John 



The Wood-Pigeons in the London 

 Parks, 87; Eooks in the West 

 End of London, 87 



New Species of British Animals described in this Volume. 



Vermes. 

 Enchy tr cens parvuhis, Friend (Staffordshire) . 



AlloLobopliora constricta, Eosa, 



var. geminata, Friend (Antrim) . 



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