CONTENTS. 



Notes from some Zoological Gardens of Western Europe (with Plate), Graham 



Benshaw, M.B., 361. 

 Variations in Colouring of Stercorarius crepidatus, Edmund Selous, 368. 

 Sea-Birds and Plovers noticed in Lancashire and Cumberland, Thomas Hepburn, 



374. 

 Birds collected and observed in the Darbhanga District, Tirhoot, Bengal, Gordon 



Dalgliesh, 384. 

 Notes and Queries : — 

 Mammalia.— White-beaked Dolphin at Great Yarmouth, A. Patterson, 390. 

 Aves. — Notes from Yarmouth, A. Patterson, 390. Wood-Sandpiper in the Orkney 



Islands, C. S. Buxton, 391. 

 Pisces. — Notes from Yarmouth, A. Patterson, 392. 

 Insecta. — Making the best of Difficulties, W. Oxenden Hammond, 392. 

 AnimAl Sense Perceptions, Harold Fry, 392 ; Kenneth J. Cameron, 394. 

 Mimicry, 394. 

 Notices of New Books, 395-398. 

 Editorial Gleanings, 399-400. 



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