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CONTENTS. 



Clarke, W. G. 



Thetford Warren, 100; Sooty Tern 

 in Suffolk, 398 

 Clarke, W. J. 



Albino Hedgehog in Yorkshire, 

 387 ; Rare Cetaceans on the 

 Yorkshire coast, 887 ; Sabine's 

 Gull near Scarborough, 894 

 Cob urn, F. 



On the specific validity of Anser 

 rubrirostris, and its position as a 

 British bird, 46 ; Anser rubriros- 

 tris, — Dr. Eadde's evidence, 273 

 Cocks, Alfred Heneage 



M.A., F.S.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 

 Blind Bats and Mice, 430 ; On the 

 gestation of the Badger, 441 

 Collins, J., Jun. 



Fire-crested Wren in Lancashire, 

 455 

 Corbin, G. B. 



Abundance of Swifts in South 

 Hants, 266 ; Note on the Kes- 

 trel, 267 ; Note on Shoveler, &c, 

 in Valley of Avon, Hampshire, 

 274 ; Sea-birds inland, 277 

 Cottney, John 



Wigeon breeding in Ireland, a cor- 

 rection, 391 

 Coward, T. A. 

 Bird notes from Cheshire during 

 the winter of 1902-1903, 170 



CUMMINGS, S. G. 



The status of the Goldfinch in 

 Britain, 104 ; A habit of the 

 Lesser Redpoll, 105 ; Purple 

 Sandpiper in Anglesey, 154 ; 

 Dotterel in Cheshire, 230 ; Girl- 

 Bunting in Flintshire, 350 



Dalgliesh, Gordon 



Notes and observations on the 

 mammals collected and observed 

 in the Darbhanga District, Tir- 

 hoot, Bengal, 94 ; Notes on the 

 Stoat and Weasel, 189 ; Orni- 

 thological notes from Guernsey, 

 231, 277 ; Natterer's Bat in Sur- 

 rey, 349 ; Bird-life on an Indian 

 Marsh, 426 



Distant, W. L. 



Goldfinch in South Africa, 228, 

 482 ; Birds and the resonance of 

 war, 276 ; Reason and instinct, 

 396 



Dixon, R. M. 



The ecdyses of Snakes, as observed 

 in British India, 336 



Dombrain, H. A. A. 



Notes from Lincolnshire, 486 



DOUBLKDAY, G. A. 



Hairless specimen of the Common 

 Rat, 454 

 D'Urban, W. G. M. 



The status of the Goldfinch in 

 Britain, 105 ; Birds killed by 

 Ticks, 108; Do wild birds die 

 instantly ? 108 

 Elliott, J. Steele 



Purple Heron in Hertfordshire, 

 107 ; Natterer's Bat in Bedford- 

 shire, 849 ; Nesting habits of 

 Long-tailed Tit, 350 

 Ellison, Rev. Allan 



Note on the Sedge-Warbler, 189 ; 

 The status of the Goldfinch in 

 Britain, 191 ; Birds killed by 

 Ticks, 194 

 Elms, E. F. M. 



Bird notes in Sark (1903), 260, 305, 

 352 ; Early notes in Oxfordshire, 

 in the neighbourhood of Witney 

 (1903), 463 

 Flemyng, Rev. William W., M.A. 

 Involuntary capture of a Swallow, 

 227 ; Siskin breeding in Co. 

 Wicklow, 456 ; Cuckoo's note 

 uttered while flying, 457 

 Forrest, H. E. 



The status of the Goldfinch in 

 Britain, 71 ; Stone-Curlew in 

 Merioneth, 154 ; The birds of 

 N.W. Wales and the opposite 

 counties of Ireland, 176 ; Dart- 

 ford Warbler in Shropshire, 349 

 Fowler, W. Warde, M.A. 



Au unknown Warbler in Oxford- 

 shire, 343 ; Cuckoo calling in 

 September in Italy, 390 

 Fox, W. Storrs 



Rough-legged Buzzard and Mon- 

 tagu's Harrier in Derbyshire, 268 

 Frohawk, F. W. 



British Bean-Geese, 41 

 Godfrey, Robert 



Blackbird laying on the ground, 70 

 Gough, P. 



Strange behaviour of Peregrines 

 in Ireland, 433 

 Graves, Frank S. 



Grasshopper-Warbler in the Isle of 

 Man, 313 ; Tree-Sparrow in the 

 Isle of Man, 313 ; Stock-Dove in 

 the Isle of Man, 316 ; Water- 

 Rail in the Isle of Man, 317 



