CONTENTS. 



The Blaauwbok {Hippotragus leucophceus), (with Plate), Graham Benshaw, M.B., 



441. 

 Miscellaneous Jottings on Bird Songs, E. Leonard Gill, 449. 



An Observational Diary of the Habits — mostly Domestic — of the Great Crested 

 Grebe {Podicipes cristatus), and of the Peewit {Vanelhis vulgaris), with 

 some General Eemarks, Edmund Selous, 454. 

 On the Increase of the Starling and the Hawfinch, H. E. Howard, F.Z.S., 463. 

 Birds observed on the Calf of Man, F. S. Crraves and P. Balfe, 468. 

 Notes and Queries; — 

 Mammalia. — Variety of Vesperugo pipistrellus, H. J. Charbonnier, 472. 



Autumnal Litter of Dormice, T. Vaughan Boberts, 472. 

 AvES. — Begulus cristatus near Eeading, G. W. Bradshaio, 472. Nesting of the 

 Marsh- Warbler in Somersetshire, Charles B. Horsbrugh, 472. Waxwing at 

 Scarborough, A. H. MeiMejohn, 473. Notes on the Swift and the Number 

 of Days taken in Incubation, J. Steele-Elliott, 473. American Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo {Coccyzus americanus) at Ringwood, G. B. Corbin, 474. Little Owl 

 at Henley, G. W. Bradshaiv, 476. Circus cineraceus in Northamptonshire, 

 0. V. Aplin, 476. Peregrine Falcon in Berkshire, G. W. Bradshaio, 476. 

 The Eing-necked Duck as a British Bird, 0. V. Aplin, 476. Notes from 

 Suffolk, Lt.-Col. E. A. Butler, 477. Notes fi-om Scarborough, W. J. Clarice, 

 477. Notes from Eedcar, Yorks, Stanley Duncan, 477. Icelandic Names of 

 Birds, F. Coburn, 478. 

 Aviculture. — Leadbeater's Cockatoo breeding in England, Julian G. Tuch, 478. 



Storm Petrel in Confinement, Arthur Patterson, 478. 

 Reptilia. — The Sand-Lizard in Berkshire, Ernest S. Lumsden, 479. 

 Insecta. — Mosquitoes at Scarborough, TF. J. Clarke, 479. 

 Biography. — The Water Chanter of Turner, H. A. Macpherson, 480. 



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