VI 



CONTENTS. 



Dobie, W. Henry 



The Little Owl in North Wales (?), 

 556 

 Elliott, J. Steele- 



Lesser Shrew in Worcestershire, 

 142; Nesting of the Great Tit 

 (Parus major), 423 ; Nesting of 

 the Common Sparrow (Passer 

 domesticus), 424 ; Nesting habits 

 of the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), 

 425 ; Some notes on the Swift 

 (Cypselus apus), 479 

 Farman, Last 



Winter notes from Haddiscoe, 83 

 Fitch, Edward A., F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 The Lesser Rorqual in the Essex 

 Blackwater, 517 

 Forrest, H. E. 



The movements of Starlings, 131, 

 479 ; Curious variety of the 

 Mole, 142 ; Great Tit nesting in 

 active Bee-hive, 143 ; Nesting of 

 the Hobby in Shropshire, 143, 

 382 ; Sea-Lamprey at Shrews- 

 bury, 144 ; Lesser Shrew in 

 Shropshire, 186 ; Little Crake 

 in Shropshire, 280; The Little 

 Owl in Flintshire ?, 482 ; Verte- 

 brate Fauna of North Wales, 

 485 ; Breeding of the Tutted 

 Duck (Fuligula cristata) in Shrop- 

 shire, 506 

 Fowler, W. Warde, M.A. 



Lateness in appearance of the 

 summer migrants, 238 

 Fox, W. Storrs, M.A., F.Z.S. 



The Ring-Ouzel in Derbyshire, 1 

 Frohawk, F. W. 



Little Gull (Larus minutus) on the 

 Thames, 83 

 Gaythorpe, Harper 



Strange hibernating quarters for 

 Vanessa io and V. urticae, 559 

 Grabham, Oxley, M.A., M.B.O.U. 

 Varieties of the Mole, 186 ; Water 

 Shrews, 186 ; Natural History 

 notes from Yorkshire for 1899, 

 229 ; Number of eggs in nest of 

 Swift, 520 

 Grant, C. H. B. 



Water Shrews taken three miles 

 from water, 142 

 Gurney, J. H., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk 

 for 1899, 97 ; A short history of 

 the Bearded Titmouse, 358 

 Haigh, G. H. Caton 



Bird notes from North-east Lin- 



colnshire during the autumn 

 migration of 1899, 201 

 Hall, H. S. 



Nesting of the Marsh- Warbler in 

 Wiltshire, 555 

 Hall, Robert 



Sea-Elephants on Kerguelen's 

 Land, 441 

 Horsbrugh, Charles B. 



Mistle-Thrush laying twice in the 

 same nest. 422 ; Gannet in Som- 

 ersetshire, 557 

 Howard, H. E. 



Unusual numbers of Green Plover 

 in Worcestershire, 187 ; Varia- 

 tions in the notes and songs of 

 birds in different districts, 382 

 Howard, R. J. 



Wild Cat, 555 

 Jones, Surgeon K. Hurlstone, M.B., 

 R.N.,F.L.S 

 Land birds at sea, 51 ; Ornithologi- 

 cal notes from South-Western 

 Europe, 448 

 Jourdain, Francis C. R. 



Rough notes on Derbyshire Orni- 

 thology (1899-1900), 428 

 Kew, Wallis H. 



Spinning Molluscs, 289 

 Langdale, H. Marmaduke 



Molluscs eaten by Wood- Pigeons, 

 484 

 Leighton, Gerald, M.B. 



The Adder- swallowing theory from 

 an anatomical point of view, 

 393 ; British Snakes, 560 

 Lewis, Stanley 



Serrated claws of the Common 

 Heron, 38 ; Mistle-Thrush at- 

 tacking Squirrel, 321 

 Lydekker, R., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S. 

 Specimens of Harvest- Mouse and 

 British Bats wanted for the Na- 

 tional Museum, 321 

 Macpherson, Rev. H. A., M.A. 

 The Bearded Tit — a correction cor- 

 rected, 478 ; Is the Siskin an 

 autumn and winter songster ?, 

 555 ; The names of British Birds, 

 558 

 Marchant, Spencer H. Le 



Curlew nesting in Surrey, 382 

 Marshall, Guy A. K., F.Z.S. 



"Assimilative Colouration," 327; 

 Conscious Protective Resem- 

 blance, 536 

 Martin, Basil W. 



Red-billed Chough near Hendon, 



