CONTENTS. 



IX 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Acantkis linaria, 299 ; linaria ros- 



trata ?, 298 

 Acanthiza chrysorrhoa, 125 

 Acanthochsera inauris, 126 

 Accentor collavis, 130 ; Hedge, var. 



(egg), 87; rnodularis, 149 

 Accipiter nisus, 349 

 Acredula rosea, 149 

 Acrocephalus turdoides, 268 

 iEgialitis curonica, 209 ; hiaticola, 



101, 111 

 .Ethyia ferina, 210; fuligula, 210 

 Aix sponsa, 58 

 Alauda arvensis, 149 

 Alca torda, 177 

 Alcedo ispida, 111, 187, 209 

 Algeria, Nightingales in, singing in 



August, 430 

 Aluco flamnieus, 176 

 Ammornanes deserti, 209 

 Anas boscas, 150, 177, 208 

 Andalusia, birds nesting in (Plate V.), 



321 397 

 Angle'sea, birds of, 213, 376, 423 

 Animal life, extermination in, 281, 



332 

 Animal or animals generally referred 



to as " Sea-Serpent," 113 

 Animals, budding in, 1 ; have they a 



future life?, 157 

 Anser albifrons, 73, 177, 255 ; bra- 



chyrhynchus, 392 

 Antarctic Begions ' Discovery ' Ex- 

 pedition, Report on Natural His- 

 tory Collections made by, 199 

 Anthus obseurus, 176 ; pratensis, 149, 



310, 311, 348, 349, 390 ; spipoletta, 



131, 142 ; trivialis, 149 

 Apes, half-wild, last male specimen, 



356 

 Apteryx australis mantelli, 272 

 Aquila chrysaetus, 74 ; maculata, 211 

 Ara macao, 438 

 Arctictis binturong, 438 

 Arctogalidia trivirgata, 438 

 Ardea cinerea, 112, 150, 177, 211; 



garzetta, 209 ; ralloides, 349 

 Argyope trifasciata, 239 

 Asio accipitrinus, 209 ; otus. 176, 183, 



233, 234, 264, 265, 311 

 Athene glaux, 209 



Atlantic, North, and Gulf of St. 



Lawrence, land-birds observed on 



(1904), 293 

 Avocet, 89 

 Avocets and Spoonbills on Breydon 



Broad (fig.), 93 



Badger, carnivorous propensity, 231 



Balaenoptera borealis, 29 ; glacialis, 

 29 > 



Balbriggan, birds observed at (1903- 

 1904), 174 



Barnstaple, notes from, 110 



Bat, Daubenton's, in Denbighshire, 

 308 ; Leisler's, in Yorkshire, 68 ; 

 Lesser Horseshoe, in Shropshire, 

 308 ; Natterer's, on some habits 

 of, 51 ; Noctule, flight-time of, 307, 

 — query respecting, 397, 470, — 

 habits, 427; swimming of, 231 



Bee-eater in Yorkshire, 389 



Belone vulgaris, 409 



Bernicla brenta, 74 ; canadensis, 74, 

 150 ; leucopsis, 392 



' Biologia Centrali-Americana,' 276 



Biological suggestions — extermina- 

 tion in animal life, 281, 332 



Bird-notes, some old Welsh, 37 



Bird new to British list (Dusky 

 Thrush), 466 



Birds, singing haunts and habits of 

 some British, 71 ; autumn song of, 

 71 ; migration of, 85, 88, 170, 175, 

 241; observed at Grindelwald in 

 January, 129, — at Balbriggan, 174, 

 — in Egypt, in December, January, 

 and February, 208, — in North At- 

 lantic and Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 293 ; preservation of, from a gar- 

 dener's point of view, 159 ; of 

 Anglesea, 213, 376, 423; sitting 

 position of, in relation to wind, 

 236 ; nesting within other birds' 

 nests, 33, 69, 71 ; nesting in Anda- 

 lusia, 321, 397 ; breeding habits of, 

 436 ; rare, in Norfolk, 466,— in 

 Aberdeenshire, 466 



Bitis gabonensis, 353 ; nasicornis, 353 



Bittern, 457 



Blackbird, 48 ; var., 61, 99, 144 



Blackcap, 378 



