CONTENTS. 



Vll 



82 ; Cuckoo breeding hi London 

 District, 481 

 Meade-Waldo, E. G. B. 



The Little Owl, 556 

 Meiklejohn, A. H. 



How does the Cuckoo carry her 

 egg ?, 262 ; Note on the nesting 

 habits of the Sparrow-Hawk, 

 381 ; The origin and meaning of 

 the names of British Birds, 511; 

 The mode of progression of the 

 Phalacrocoracidas under water, 

 557 

 Morley, John 



Bittern near Scarborough, 83 

 Murray, H. W., F.Z.S. 



Mammalia of Surrey, 559 

 Nelson, H. T. 



Red-crested Pochard in Yorkshire, 

 483 ; Stone Curlew in Cleveland 

 in winter, 483 ; Marten in Cleve- 

 land, 517 

 New, Oliver H. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker (Den- 

 drocopus major), 278 

 Noble, Heatley 



" Chiffchaff building on the top of 

 small yew and box trees " — cor- 

 rection, 37 ; Black-game in Suf- 

 folk, 39; Lesser Shrew and Bank 

 Vole in Berks, 421 ; The Bearded 

 Titmouse and other birds in Nor- 

 folk, 422 

 Oddi, Count Ettore Arrigoni degli 

 Notes upon the Zoological Meeting 

 of Pavia, 265 

 Oldham, Charles 



Lesser Shrew in Cambridgeshire, 

 421 ; Insectivorous habits of the 

 Long-tailed Field-Mouse, 421 ; 

 Quail in Cheshire, 428 

 Patten, Charles J., B.A., M.D., &c. 

 On the distribution of some birds 

 observed in Ireland and in Switz- 

 erland, 213 

 Patterson, Arthur 



The Birds of Great Yarmouth and 

 the neighbourhood, 153, 397, 529 

 Cormorant in captivity, 240 

 Notes from Great Yarmouth, 241 

 Spoonbill at Great Yarmouth, 

 323; Migration notes from Great 

 Yarmouth, 324; Sunfish in the 

 Yarmouth Roads, 483 ; Meristic 

 Variation in the Edible Crab, 

 484 

 Playne, Herbert C. 

 Blackcap in March, 187 



Pocock, R. I. 



Rare English Ticks, 326 ; Hybrid 

 Dog and Fox, 477 ; Marine Cen- 

 tipede in Somerset, 484 

 Poulton, Edward B., M.A.,F.R.S.,&c. 

 Conscious Protective Resemblance, 

 - 550 

 Ramsbotham, R. H. 



Flycatcher feeding on worms, 278 ; 

 Crossbills at Shrewsbury, 321 

 Read, Robert H. 



Nesting of the Common Sparrow 

 (Passer domesticus), 519; Cuc- 

 koo's egg in Song-Thrush's nest, 

 520 

 Renshaw, Graham 



Equus quagga, L., 186; Hard-sat 

 eggs — a suggestion, 189 

 Ridsdale, E. L. J. 



The Bearded Titmouse — a correc- 

 tion, 422 

 Rope, G. T. 



Remarks relating to mimicry, 85 ; 

 Oared Shrew in Suffolk, 477 

 Russell, Harold 



The Great Spotted Woodpecker in 

 Surrey, 322 ; Rooks in London, 

 519 

 Salter, J. H., D.Sc. 



Ornithological notes from Mid- 

 Wales, 76 

 Saunders, Howard 



Serrated claws of the Common 

 Heron, 85 

 Saxby, T. Edmondston 



Ornithological notes from Shetland, 

 281 ; Cuckoo in the Shetlands, 

 426 ; Opah at the Shetlands, 434 

 Selous, Edmund 

 An observational diary of the habits 

 of the Great Plover (CEdicnemus 

 crepitans) during September and 

 October, 173, 270, 458 

 Service, Robert 



Hybrid Doves, 281 

 Souef, D. le, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



" How does the new-born Kangaroo 

 get into the mother's pouch ?, 

 49 

 Southwell, Thomas, F.Z.S. 



Notes on the Seal and Whale Fish- 

 ery (1899), 65 ; Notes from Nor- 

 folk, 239 

 Stares, John 



Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa bel- 

 gica) in Hants, 428 

 Stead, David G. 

 Zoological notes from Sydney, 345 



