CONTENTS. 



XV11 



Man in Zoology, 13 ; Early, skulls 

 found in Norfolk, 33 ; Palaeolithic, 

 and the glacial epoch, 95 ; Pre- 

 historic, remains on Rombald's 

 Moor, 145 

 Manx bird-names, 71, 144 

 Marine and Fresh-water Fishes of 



Great Yarmouth, &c, 539 

 Marmosa murina, 342 

 Marsh versus fen, 437 

 Marten, Pine, in Ireland, 141, 269, 



327 

 Maurolicus pennantii, 559 

 Merlucius vulgaris, 554 

 Mesatlantis, the Middle Sea-region, 



223 

 Mesirenia, the Middle Pacific Sea- 

 region, 225 

 Miall, Prof. L. C, on study of zoology, 



434 

 Migration of Eed-legged Partridge, 

 166, 233 ; at Spurn lighthouse, in 

 1896, 245 ; of birds, 505 

 Migrants, summer, in Gloucester- 

 shire, 274 ; in Aberdeenshire, 366 

 Mimus gilvus, 448 



Mollusca from Tangier, 244; non- 

 marine, of Essex, 535 

 Molva vulgaris, 554 

 Momotus swainsoni, 447, 448 

 Motella cimbria, 554 ; mustela, 554 ; 



tricirrata, 554 

 Mugil capito, 552 ; chelo, 552 

 Mullus surmuletus, 544 

 Musdecumanus,344; musculus, 344; 



rattus, 198, 344 

 Museum Reports : — 



Oological collection in Australia, 



47 

 Harvie Brown Museum destroyed 



by fire, 48 

 Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle 

 de Belgique, 80 ; locality-labels, 

 81 

 Federal staff for local museums, 



147 

 Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 



243 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology 



at Harvard College, 387 

 Museum of Chicago Academy of 



Sciences, 388 

 British Museum Report for 1896, 



484 

 Washington National Museum, 485 

 Museum for Isle of Man, 579 

 Mustelus vulgaris, 564 

 Myiadectes sibilans, 448 



Myrmecophaga jubata breeding in 

 captivity, 95 



1 Naturalists' Directory,' 291 



Naucrates ductor, 548 



Nectomys palmipes, 344 



Neolithic life in Devon and Corn- 

 wall, 49 



Nerophis aequoreus, 563 



Nest of Cape Wagtail with egg of 

 South African Golden Cuckoo, 142 ; 

 of Tit, strange discovery of, 167 ; 

 of Reed Bunting in unusual posi- 

 tion, 336 ; of Song Thrush with 

 egg of Cuckoo, 364 ; of Spotted 

 Flycatcher constructed in nest of 

 Hawfinch, 426 ; of Magpie and of 

 Wood Pigeon, proximity of, 427 ; 

 of Thrush appropriated by House 

 Sparrow, 427 ; unusual sites for, 

 chosen by birds, 430 



Nesting of White Wagtail in Suffolk, 

 233 ; habit, peculiar, of House 

 Sparrow, 273 ; of Grey Wagtail in 

 Lincolnshire, 274, 336 ; of Spar- 

 rows on a band-stand, 287 ; alleged, 

 of Montagu's Harrier, in Kent, 

 363 ; of Wood Pigeon in heart of 

 the city, 383 ; of Great Northern 

 and Black-throated Divers in Shet- 

 land, 425, 509 ; sites, curious, near 

 Thetford, 449 ; of Sparrowhawk in 

 thorn-tree, 508 ; of Great Plover, 

 511 ; strange, of Nuthatch, 514, — 

 Starling, 514 



Nests and nesting sites, unusual, 430, 

 449 



Nightingale near Scarborough, 332 ; 

 and Blackbird, voices compared, 

 331 



Nightjar, memory for locality in a, 330 



Norfolk, ornithological record for 

 1896, 121 ; birds, amongst the, 

 168 ; fens, twenty years on, 351 ; 

 fen versus marsh, 437 



Norway, notes from, 22 



Notopelagia, the Southern Polar Sea- 

 region, 225 



Nuthatch, strange nesting habits, 514 



Nyctibius jamaicensis, 447 



Nyctophilus timoriensis, 193 



Obituary : — 



Bartlett, Abraham Dee, 267 

 Bendire, Major Charles E., 230 

 Cope, Edward Drinker, 229 

 Dreschel, Professor, 533 

 Giitke, Heinrich, 139 



