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CONTENTS. 



Joubin ; Fas.xvi., Mollusques, par 

 Paul Pelseneer, 377 

 Practical Taxidermy, — a Manual 

 of Instruction to the Amateur in 

 Collecting, Preserving, and Set- 

 ting-up Natural History Speci- 

 mens of all kinds, by Montagu 

 Browne, 378 

 Life in Early Britain, being an 

 Account of the Early Inhabitants 

 of this Island, and the Memorials 

 which they have left behind them, 

 by Bertram C. A. Windle, 477 

 The Vivarium, being a Practical 

 Guide to the Construction, Ar- 

 rangement, and Management of 

 Vivaria, containing full informa- 

 tion as to all Reptiles suitable as 

 Pets, &c, by the Rev. Gregory 

 C. Bateman, 478 

 A Bibliography of Gilbert White, 

 the Natural Historian and Anti- 

 quarian of Selborne, by Edward 

 A. Martin, 480 

 Bteveren (Castor fiber) i Norge dens 

 Udbredelse og Levemaade (1896), 

 af R. Collett, 481 

 The Concise Knowledge Natural 

 History, by R. Lydekker, R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, W. F. Kirby, W. 

 Garstang, B. B. Woodward, F. A. 

 Bather, R. Kirkpatrick, R. I. 

 Pocock, and H. M. Bernard, 482 

 Citizen Bird, — Scenes from Bird- 

 Life in Plain English for Be- 

 ginners, by Mabel Osgood Wright 

 and Elliot Coues, 483 

 Darwin, and after Darwin, vol. iii., 

 by the late George John Ro- 

 manes, 522 

 A Handbook to the Birds of Great 

 Britain, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 523 

 British Birds, with their Nests and 

 Eggs, illustrated by F. W. Fro- 

 hawk, vols, i.-iii., 525 

 John Hunter, Man of Science and 

 Surgeon, by Stephen Paget, 527 

 Bos sondaicus, 489, — skull and horns, 



figured. 492, 495 

 Brabrook, E. W., honours for, 382 

 Breeding of Corncrakes in confine- 

 ment, 85 ; South African Galago in 

 confinement, 83 ; Ant-eater in cap- 

 tivity, 95 ; Roseate Tern in Britain, 

 165, 467 ; Caracal or Desert Lynx 

 in captivity, 185; Black Bear in 

 captivity, 185 ; Cape Hunting Dog 



in captivity, 186 ; Long-eared Owl 

 in Essex, 232 ; Common Snipe in 

 Romney Marsh, 271 ; Sparrows on 

 a band-stand, 287 ; Tozenburg Goat 

 in captivity, 291 ; Wild Sheep in 

 captivity, 291 ; range of Yellow 

 Wagtail in Ireland, 346 ; Kingfisher 

 in Norfolk, 354 ; Black-throated 

 Diver in Shetland, 364, 425, 509 

 habits of Purple Heron, 407 ; Mon 

 tagu's Harrier in Ireland, 467 

 Ringed Plover inland in Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, 502 



British Museum Report, 1896, 484 



Brown, John Harvie, museum des- 

 troyed by fire, 48 



Buffon to Darwin, 312 



Bull, Burmese Wild, description of, 

 and Natural History notes on, 489 ; 

 skull and horns, figured, 492, 495 



Bunting, Black-headed, in Sussex, 

 273 ; Reed, nest in unusual posi- 

 tion, 336; Siberian Meadow, 6 



Burma, Upper, Zoology of, 286 



Bustard, Great, old race of Norfolk, 

 289, 572 ; Indian Houbara, in Hum- 

 ber District, 47 



Buteo desertorum, 158 



Butterflies, light- and dark-coloured, 

 proposed explanation as to appear- 

 ance during day, 88 ; strange pair- 

 ing, 521 



Buzzard, Honey, in Staffordshire, 232, 

 271, 328; in Suffolk, 425 



Callionymus lyra, 550 



Call-notes of British birds, Dictionary 

 of, 535, 576 



Campylopterus ensipennis, 446 



Canis dingo, 193 



Capros aper, 548 



Caracal or Desert Lynx breeding in 

 captivity, 185 



Carcharias glaucus, 564 



Carpodacus erythrinus, 6 



Centronotus gunnellus, 551 



Cephalopod, Giant, alleged, reported 

 from Florida, 291 



Ceratorrhina burkei, 161 ; derbyana, 

 161 



Certhiola atrata, 447 



Cestode parasites of fishes, 534 



Cetaceans, distribution, 220 



Charadrius dominicus, a rare Plover, 

 on the River Thames, 330 



Check-list of British Earthworms, 453 



Chicago Academy of Sciences, mu- 

 seum, 388 



