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and Geological Characters, by H. 

 B. Guppy, 439 

 Pictures of Bird Life on Woodland, 

 Meadow, Mountain, and Marsh, 

 by B. B. Lodge, 468 

 The Vertebrate Fauna of "Dee," 



by George Sim, 469 

 Animal Studies : a Text-book of 

 Elementary Zoology for use in 

 High Schools and Colleges, by 

 David Starr Jordan, Vernon L. 

 Kellogg, and Harold Heath, 470 

 Birds' Eggs of the British Isles. 

 Collated by A. G. Butler. Illus- 

 trated by F. W. Frohawk, 471 

 On the Birds of Fernando Po, by 



Boyd Alexander, 471 

 Edmonston's Flora of Shetland, 

 edited and revised by C. F. Argyll 

 Saxby, 471 

 Bornean Mantidas, bionomical notes 



on some, 299 

 Bos (Bibos) gaurus, 99, 264 

 Boselaphus tragocamelus, 99 

 Botaurus stellaris, 29, 275, 367, 428 

 Box vulgaris on Norfolk coast, 31 

 Breeding of Bed-necked Phalarope in 

 Ireland, 116 ; of Woodcock in Kent, 

 193 ; of Wigeon in Ireland — a cor- 

 rection, 391 ; habits of Lesser Black- 

 backed and Herring- Gulls, 308, 

 352— of Pied Woodpecker, 352 ; 

 range, northern, of Dartford War- 

 bler, 423 ; of Siskin in Co. Wick- 

 low, 456 

 Bridlington, Yorkshire, notes from, 353 

 British Association at Belfast, 40 

 Buccinum undatum, 187 

 Bufo vulgaris, 74 

 Bullfinch, 210 ; in Australia, 236 

 Bulweria bulweri, 420 

 Bunting, Cirl, in Flintshire, 179, 350 ; 



Snow, 208 

 Burma, Upper, chipped flints at 



Yenangyoung, 254 

 Bustard, Great, in Ireland, 153 

 Buteo lagopus, 268, 433, 446 ; vulgaris, 



446 

 Buzzard, Common, 180; Honey, in 

 Cheshire, 315, — in Notts, 459 ; 

 Bough-legged, 180, — in Derby- 

 shire, 268, — near Scarborough, 

 433,— in Notts, 459 

 Bythinia tentaculata, 187 



Caccabis rufa, 449 



Calidris arenaria, 369 



Callichthys asper, 384 ; punctatus, 384 



Canus aureus, 95 ; pallipes, 95 

 Carassius auratus var. japonicus, 384 

 Cardium edule, 184 ; exiguum, 184 

 Cardueliselegans,23,70, 104, 152,190, 

 191, 227, 236, 432, 465 ; spinus, 365 

 Cathartes aura, 109 

 Cerithium reticulatum, 186 

 Cerivoula picta, 97 

 Cervus axis, 99 

 Ceryle varia, 428 

 Cetaceans, rare, on Yorkshire coast, 



387 

 Chameleons, East African (Plate V.), 



321 ; list of, 327 

 Chamseleontidse, 321 

 Charadrius pluvialis, 306, 368, 450 

 Chaulelasmus streperus, 426 

 Check-list, A. O.U., 79 

 Chelidon urbica, 153, 224, 305, 455, 



461, 463, 465 

 Chen hyperboreus, 459 

 Cheshire, bird notes from, 170 

 Chiton cinereus, 186 

 Chordodes Shipleyi, 300 

 Chough, 179 



Chrysomitris spinus, 456 

 Circus cineraceus, 268, 421 ; cyaneus, 



152, 367, 420, 446 

 Clangula glaucion, 275 

 Clausilia rugosa, 188 

 Clupea harengus, 383 

 Coccothraustes vulgaris, 104, 448 

 Colobus, Cynopithecus, and Nasalis, 



cerebral convolution in, 79 

 Coloration, protective, of birds' eggs, 



73 

 Coluber melanoleucus, 30 

 Columba cenas, 316, 391, 449 ; livia, 

 91, 108, 153, 230, 317, 449 ; palum- 

 bus, 233, 368, 401, 461 

 Colymbus arcticus, 30, 277 ; glacialis, 

 233; septentrionalis, 91, 154, 233, 

 453, 462 

 ' Concilium Bibliographicum,' 116 

 Coracias garrulus, 449 

 Corbula gibba, 185 

 Coreidae, 301 



Corvus corax, 191, 304; comix, 350, 

 366, 449; corone, 192, 232, 366; 

 frugilegus, 232, 366, 465 ; monedula, 

 224, 366, 465 

 Cotile riparia, 224, 449 

 Cottus scorpinus, 384 

 Coturnix communis, 449, 466 

 County Becords : — 



Bedfordshire — Natterer's Bat, 349 

 Cambridgeshire — Mouse-coloured 

 Bat, 387 



