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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Alexander, W. B., B.A. 



Recent work on the inheritance of 

 acquired characters, 441 

 Aplin, O. V., F.L.S., M.B.O.U. 

 Summer in Lleyn, with some other 

 notes on the Birds of the district, 

 41, 99; " Hardistrow," a name 

 for the Shrew, 116 ; Variety of 

 the Mole, 157 ; Notes on the Or- 

 nithology of Oxfordshire (1909), 

 281 ; Daphne-berries eaten by 

 birds, 893 

 Arnold, E. C. 



Records of rare birds, 393 

 Arundel, Walter B. 

 Albino House-Sparrow in York- 

 shire, 339 

 Bagnall, Richard S., F.L.S., 

 F.E.S. 

 Records of some Scandinavian 

 Woodlice, 223 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Major G. E. H., 

 F.Z.S. 

 Common Shrew on Scotch Islands, 

 267 ; Greater Horseshoe Bat in 

 Wiltshire, 307 

 Bate, D. M. A. 

 Artifices by Cat to secure its prey, 

 30 

 Bell, William, Rev. 



Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, 316 

 Booth, H. B. 

 A local race of light-coloured Mice, 

 471 

 Britten, Edward 



On the occurrence of Vipera berus 

 in the Pyrenees, near San Sebas- 

 tian, 266 

 Brock, S. E. 



Incubation and fledging periods in 

 birds, 117 ; Nesting of the Wren, 

 196; The Willow-Wrens' of a 

 Lothian Wood, 401 

 Bryant, Charles H. 

 Yawning of rodents, 391 



Butterfield, E. P. 



Notes from Yorkshire, 337 ; Late 

 eggs of Nightjar, 392 ; Kestrel 

 mobbed by Starlings, 392 ; Bees 

 killed by wasps, 396, 435 ; Intel- 

 ligence of a Squirrel, 434 

 Cocks, Alfred Heneage, M.A., 

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

 Bechstein's Bat — a correction, 74 ; 

 On the yawning of fishes and of 

 other vertebrates, 384 

 Cooke, A. T. 



Impressions of a naturalist on the 

 White River, Transvaal, 377 

 Corbin, G. B. 



Notes from South-west Hants, 198 ; 

 Late eggs of Nightjar — was it a 

 second brood?, 339 

 Cotton, T. A. 



Chiffchaff in Hants, 158 

 Cummings, Bruce F. 



The formation of useless habits in 

 two British Newts, with obser- 

 vations on their general be- 

 haviour, 161, 211, 272 ; Fauna 

 of Lundy Island, 267 

 Cummings, S. G. 



Nesting of the Wren, 158- 

 Dalgliesh, Gordon 



The Dragonflies of South-west 

 Surrey, 192 ; Notes on Culex 

 vexans and Osmylus fulvi- 

 cephalus, 231 ; On the validity 

 of the Yellow-necked Mouse to 

 rank as a species, and notes on 

 Mus sylvaticus, 241 ; Weasels 

 and Stoats hunting together, 

 267 ; Additional notes on Mus 

 Jiavicollis, 433 

 Dewar, J. M. 



A preliminary note on the manner 

 in which the Oystercatcher at- 

 tacks the Purple- Shell, 109 

 Distant, W. L. 



Recent valuable additions to the 



