CONTENTS. 



Bittern near Scarborough, 83 

 Bittium (Cerithram) reticulatum, 317 

 Blackbird on the Rigi, 268 ; breeding 



in Shetland, 281 

 Blackbird and Hedge- Sparrow, cur- 

 ious partnership of, in a nest, 237 

 Blackcap in March, 187 

 Black-game in Suffolk and Norfolk, 39 

 Bombinator igneus, 86, 145 

 Books Noticed : — 



An Account of the Deep- Sea 

 Brachyura, and a Descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Indian Deep- 

 Sea Fishes collected by the 

 Royal Indian Marine Ship 'In- 

 vestigator,' by A. Alcock, 42 



The Rainbow Trout, by Charles 

 Edward Walker and Charles S. 

 Patterson, 43 



Our Rarer British Breeding Birds, 

 by R. Kearton, 44 



Die Flederniause des Berliner Mu- 

 seums fur Naturkunde : 1 Lie- 

 feriing, Die Megachiroptera, by 

 Paul Matschie, 45 



A First Book in Organic Evolution, 

 by D. Kerfoot Shute, 87 



Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in 

 the Hunting Grounds of Western 

 America and British Columbia, 

 by W. A. Baillie-Grohman, 88 



British Dragonflies (Odonata), by 

 W. J. Lucas, 89 



Recent Foraminifera, a Descriptive 

 Catalogue of Specimens dredged 

 by the U.S. Fish Com. Steamer 

 ' Albatross,' by James N. Flint, 

 90 



The Mycetozoa, and some Ques- 

 tions which they Suggest, by 

 Sir Edward and Agnes Fry, 91 



Biologia Animale (Zoologia Gene- 

 rale e Speciale) per Naturalisti, 

 Medici, e Veterinari, Del Dott. 

 Gedeone Collamarini, 92 



Faune de France — Les Oiseaux, 

 par A. Acloque, 92 



The Races of Man, an Outline of 

 Anthropology and Ethnography, 

 by J. Deniker, 146 



A Book of Whales, by F. E. Bed- 

 dard, 147 



British Birds, with some Notes in 

 reference to their Plumage, by 

 Claude W. Wyatt, 148 



A Manual of Zoology, by the late 

 T. Jeffery Parker and William 

 A. Haswell, 149 



The Caroline Islands, by F. W. 

 Christian, 150 



The Vertebrate Fauna of Bedford- 

 shire, by J. Steele Elliott, 152 



Transactions of the Caradoc and 

 Severn Valley Field Club, 1 52 



A Monograph of Christmas Island 

 (Indian Ocean), by Charles W. 

 Andrews, &c, 190 



The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group 

 — its Zoolog3^, Botany, Ethno- 

 logy, and General Structure, 191 



The Norwegian North Polar Ex- 

 pedition, 1893-1896, edited by 

 Fridtjof N arisen, 192 



Text-Book on Palaeontology, by 

 Karl A von Zittel, 194 



An Elementary Course of Practical 

 Zoology, by the late T. Jeffery 

 Parker and W. N. Parker, 195 



General Index to Miss Ormerod's 

 Reports on Injurious Insects, 196 



Report of Injurious Insects and 

 Common Farm Pests during the 

 year 1899, with Methods of Pre- 

 vention and Remedy, by Eleanor 

 A. Ormerod, 196 



Ghizeh Zoological Gardens Report 

 for 1899, by Stanley S. Flower, 

 198 



A Key to the Birds of Australia and 

 Tasmania, by Robert Hall, 199 



Animal Behaviour, by C. O. AY hit- 

 man, 199 



List of the Birds of Aberystwyth 

 and Neighbourhood, by J. H. 

 Salter, 200 



Naturalists' Directory, 200 



A Treatise on Zoology, edited by 

 E. Ray Lankester, Part III., the 

 Echinoderma, by F. A. Bather, 

 assisted by J. W. Gregory and 

 E. S. Goodrich, 242 



Sexual Dimorphism in the Animal 

 Kingdom, a Theory of the Evo- 

 lution of ' Secondary ' Sexual 

 Characters, by J. T. Cunning- 

 ham, 243 



Evolution, by Frank B. Jevons, 244 



The Game Birds and Wild Fowl 

 of the British Islands, by Charles 

 Dixon, 246 



An Introduction to Science, by A. 

 Hill, 247 



Ethnology, by Michael Haberlandt, 

 247 



Illustrated Annual of Microscopy, 

 247 



