CONXMNTS. 



IX 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Aardwolf in Transvaal Colony, 219 



Aberdeen, March notes from, 189 



Acanthis hornenianni, 407 ; linaria, 

 283 ; linaria rostrata in Island of 

 Barra, 440 



Accentor coUaris, 9 ; modularis, 9, 

 204, 469 



Accipiter nisus, 208 



Acredula caudata, 8 ; irbyi, 8 



Acrocephalus palustris, 106, 473 ; 

 phragmitis, 204 



Adder, Black, in South Wales, 273 



jEgialitis asiatica, 99 ; cantiana, 99 ; 

 hiaticula, 99, 389, 413 ; ruficapilla, 

 255 



jEgiothus linaria, 12 ; rufescens, 12 



^salon regulus, 6 



Affection among birds, 140 



Africa, South, vanishing mammalian 

 fauna, 115 ; migration of birds in, 

 195 



Alauda arborea, 11 ; arvensis, 11, 207, 

 470 



Albino Leveret, 423 



Alca torda, 297, 416, 471 



Alcedo ispida, 7 ; habits of, 354 



Alligator eggs, artificial incubation 

 of, 197 



America, North, Wheatears in, 197 



Ampelis garrulus, 8, 473 



Amytis striata, 256 



Anas boscas, 208, 410 ; strepera, 410 



Animal intelligence, 190 ; sense per- 

 ceptions, 321 



Animals, game, of Cape Colony, 114 ; 

 marine, improved method of pre- 

 paring and preserving specimens, 

 199 ; predatory, average weights 

 of, 236 



Anser albifrons, 410 ; brachyrhyn- 

 chus, 208 ; cinereus, 408 ; erythro- 

 pus, 317 



Anseranus semipalmata, 260 



Ant-Eater, Scaly, 351 



Anthus campestris, 11 ; cervinus, 11, 

 264 ; obscurus, 204, 405, 469 ; pra- 

 tensis, 11, 204, 405, 469; richardi, 

 11, 283, 425 ; spinoletta, 11 ; trivia- 

 lis, 11 ; sp. ? 405 



Ants, American, compound and mixed 

 nests of, 440 



Aquila chrysaetos, 5 ; maculata, 5 



Ai'anea diadema, 393 



Archibuteo lagopus, 5 



Arcturus, 337 



Ardea alba, 107 ; cinerea, 15, 208 



purpurea, 15, 290 ; garzetta, 70, 



107 

 Ardeola ralloides, 15 

 Ardetta minuta, 354 

 Aslianti, forests and birds in, 399 

 Asio accipitrinus, 6, 189 ; brachyotus, 



283 ; otus, 6, 31, 189, 207 

 Astur palumbarius, 6 

 Athene noctua, 476 

 Australian Ornithological Union, 439 



Balsenoptera rostrata, 28 



Balistes capriscus, 225 



Bat, Whiskered, in Oxfordshire, 315 



Bats carrying their young, 315 



Beetles, stridulating organs of, 40 



Bernicla brenta, 284 ; leucopsis, 284 



Biblis rupestris, 8 



Biological Suggestions — Animal 

 Sense Perceptions, 321 



Bird notes, from Brembana Valley, 

 1 ; life, from Redcar and district, 

 108 ; migration, in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, 117, — -in South Africa, 

 195 ; songs, 449 



Birds of Yorkshire, 32, 33 ; of Great 

 Yarmouth and neighbourhood, 98, 

 294 ; British, origin and meaning 

 of names of, 72, 109 ; affection 

 among, 140 ; rare, in Nottingham- 

 shire, 158; vi^eights of, 111, 159; 

 migration of, 117, 195, 201; Bri- 

 tish, protection of, 226 ; in Lis- 

 bon, 270 ; with the, in May, 1901, 

 272 ; of Berkshire, 274 ; rarer, of 

 Solway Firth, 281 ; in Ashanti, 

 399 ; in nest-boxes, 318 ; dipterous 

 parasite in plumage of, 357, 430 ; 

 observed on Calf of Man, 468 ; 

 Icelandic names of, 478 



Birds' eggs, weight and specific grav- 

 ity of some, llO, 111 



Bittern in Oxfordshire, 71, — in Sui'- 

 rey, 252 ; Little, in Cornwall, 354 



Blaauwbok (with Plate), 441 



Blackcap singing in February, 106 



