CONTENTS. 



XV 



Microtus glareolus, 153 



Migration of birds in Great Britain 



and Ireland, 117 ; in Soutli Africa, 



195; in N.E. Lincolnshire, 201 

 Miliaria projer, 11 

 Milvus affinis, 258 ; ater, 6 ; ictinus, 



6, 71, 270, B54 

 Mimicry, suggested, of South African 



Weasel, 220 ; active, by Chaf&nch, 



228 

 Miolania, 120 

 Molge palmata, 225 

 Monkeys, Brazilian, names of, 238 

 Montifringilla nivalis, 11 

 Monticola cyanus, 9 ; sasatilis, 9 

 Moor-hen, 253 ; hairy-plumaged, 108 ; 



nesting-habits, 17, 71 

 Mosquitoes at Scarborough, 479 

 Motacilla alba, 10, 31, 117, 184, 247, 



284,. 404; beema, 389 ; campestris, 



69 ; flava, 271 ; melanope, 204 ; 



lugubris, 154, 189 ; raii, 204, 248 ; 



sulphurea, 10 

 MoteUa tricirrata, 23 

 Mouse, Long-tailed Field, climbing 



powers, 221 ; De Winter's Wood, 



in Worcestershire, 423 

 Mus, alexandrinus, 153 ; decumanus, 



153 ; rattus, 153 ; sylvaticus, 221 

 Muscardinus avellanarius, 68, 423, 



472 

 Muscicapa atricapilla, 204; grisola, 



8, 469 

 Museums — Calcutta, 198; Sarawak, 



198 

 Mylodon listai and other South Ame- 



can Edentata, structure of hairs of, 



438 

 Mytilus edulis, 118 



Names of British birds, 72, 109 

 Naturalists, Hull, bygone, 199 

 Neopithecops gaura, 198 

 Nephrops norvegicus, 23 

 Nest of Dormouse, building a, 68 

 Nesting of Long-eared Owl, 31, — 

 Jackdaw, 70, 154,— Barn Owl, 136, 

 — Pigmy Falcon in Upper Burma, 

 224, — Lesser EedpoU in Sussex, 

 315, — ^gialitis hiaticula in Mid- 

 dlesex, 389,— Marsh Warbler in 

 Somersetshire, 472 ; habits, of 

 Moor-hen, 17, 71, — Oystercatcher, 

 Common Tern, and Common Heron 

 in Holland, 318 

 Nests, compound and mixed, of 



American Ants, 440 

 Nettion castaneum, 257 ; crecca, 209 



New South Wales, importation of 

 destructive foreign mammals in, 237 



Newt, Palmate, in Carnarvonshire, 

 225 



Nightjar hawking May-flies, 70 



Nisaetus morphnoides, 258 



Noctule, observations on, 51, 153 



Nomenclature, necessity for a pro- 

 visional, for forms of life which 

 cannot be at once arranged in a 

 natural system, 119 



Norfolk, ornithological notes from, 

 121 ; Natural History of, proposed 

 volume on, 237 



Norman, George, 199 



Nucifraga caryocatactes, 14, 107 



Numenius arquata, 104, 189, 211 ; 

 cyanopus, 257 ; ph^opus, 104, 211, 

 284, 415 



Nutcracker in Sussex, 107 



Nutrition on sex, negative evidence 

 regarding influence of, 118 



Nyctsea scandiaca, 407 



Nyctala tengmalmi, 6 



Obituary : — 



Queen Victoria (to face title) 



Abrahams, Joseph, 151 



Bedford, F. P., 280 



Bowker, Col. J. H., 399 



Doherty, WiUiam, 386 



Fiske, John, 279 



Macpherson, Ptev. H. A., 480 



Ormerod, Eleanor A., LL.D. (with 

 portrait), 310 



Whitehead, Alfred, 279 

 Oceanodroma leucorrhoa, 299 

 (Edicnemus crepitans, 108 ; scolopax, 



98 

 ffidemia nigra, 413 ; perspieellata, 282 

 Okapia johnstoni, 278 

 Oriolus galbula, 13 

 Orkney, Siskin in, 425 

 Ornithomyia avicularia, 357, 431 

 Ornithologists, early, 376 

 Osprey at Rye Harbour, 427 ; in 



Hampshire, 427 

 Otocorys alpestris, 11, 283 

 Otis tarda, 98 ; tetrax, 98, 270, 428 

 Ouzel, Ring, 250 ; habits, 28 ; at St. 



Leonards-on-Sea, 69 

 Owl, Long-eared, 251, — nesting, 31 ; 



Little, at Henley, 476 

 Oxypterum pallidum, 358 

 Oystercatcher, 253, 471 



Pairing manoeuvres of Pigeons, &c., 

 181, 270 



