CONTENTS. 



IX 



Bombus hypnorum, 327, 329; lu- 



corum, 329, 337, 396 ; mastru- 



catus, 328, 334 ; mortnucatus, 333 ; 



terrestris, 327, 334 ; sp. ?, 327 

 Books Noticed : — 



Man and Nature on Tidal Waters, 

 by Arthur H. Patterson, 39 



Indian Insect Life, a Manual of 

 the Insects of the Plains (Tropi- 

 cal India), by H. Maxwell-Le- 

 froy, assisted by F. M. Howlett, 

 40 



A History of the Birds of Kent, by 

 Norman F. Ticehurst, 78 



Nirnrod, Ramrod, Fishing-rod, and 

 Nature Tales, by J. Whitaker, 

 80 



Life-history and Habits of the 

 Salmon, Sea-trout, Trout, and 

 other Freshwater Fish, by P. D. 

 Malloch, 160 



Concealing-coloration in the Ani- 

 mal Kingdom, &c, being a sum- 

 mary of Abbott H. Thayer's Dis- 

 coveries, by Gerald H. Thayer, 

 233 



The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire 

 and Liverpool Bay, edited by 

 T. A. Coward, 234 



Experiments on the Generation 

 of Insects, by Francesco Bedi, 

 236 



The British Freshwater Bhizopoda 

 and Heliozoa, by James Cash, 

 assisted by John Hopkinson, 

 238 



Bulletin of Entomological Re- 

 search, 239 



The British Bird Book, an Account 

 of all the Birds, Nests, and Eggs 

 found in the British Isles, edited 

 by F. B. Kirkman, 274 



A Handbook of the Birds of Tas- 

 mania and its Dependencies, by 

 Frank Mervyn Littler, 275 



A Synonymic Catalogue of Ortho- 

 ptera, by W. F. Kirby, 276 



Birds of New York, by Elon 

 Howard Eaton, 317 



The Subantarctic Islands of New 

 Zealand — Reports on the Geo- 

 physics, Geology, Zoology, and 

 Botany, &c, edited by Charles 

 Chilton, 342 



Life of William Macgillivray, by 

 William Macgillivray, with a 

 scientific appreciation by Prof. 

 J. Arthur Thomson, 344 



Faune des Mammiferes d'Europe, 



par E. L. Trouessart, 345 

 Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, 



by Arthur G. Butler, 397 

 Check-list of North-American 



Birds, 398 

 A List of British Birds, showing 

 at a glance the exact Status of 

 each Species, by W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, 369 

 An Account of the Alcyonarians 

 collected by the Royal Indian 

 Marine Survey Ship ' Investi- 

 gator,' by J. Arthur Thomson 

 and J. J. Simpson, with a Re- 

 port on the Species of Dendro- 

 nephthya, by W. D. Henderson, 

 400 

 Reptiles of the World, by Ray- 

 mond L. Ditmars, 437 

 A Monograph of British Nudi- 

 branchiate Mollusca (Supple- 

 mentary), by Sir Charles Eliot ; 

 figures by the late Joshua Alder 

 and Albany Hancock, and others, 

 438 

 A History of British Mammals, 

 by Gerald E. H. Barrett-Hamil- 

 ton, 440 

 Bourne, Prof. G. C, Address to 

 Zoological Section of British Asso- 

 ciation (1910), 347 

 Brama raii, 293 ; otolith of (fig. 3) , 293 

 Breeding of Common Tern and 

 Black-headed Gull in Colchester 

 Harbour, 137 ; Great Tit, 207 ; 

 Red-backed Shrike in Merioneth- 

 shire, 309 ; early, of Heron, 340, — 

 twice in the season, 341 ; of Tern, 

 at Omaui, New Zealand, 279 

 ' Bulletin of Entomological Re- 

 search,' 239 

 Bunting, Lapland, near Yarmouth, 



34 ; Ortolan, 132 ; Reed, 76 

 Buzzard, Honey, near Yarmouth, 34 



Calamichthys calabaricus, 296 



Calcarius lapponicus, 34 



Calidris arenaria, 98 



Calopteryx splendens, 194 ; virgo, 193 



Canis aureus, 370 



Cantharus lineatus, 58; asteriscus of 



(fig. 5), 59 

 Capreolus capra3a, 114 

 Caprimulgus europasus, 339, 392 

 Caradrina brevilinea, 429 ; subtusa, 



429 

 Caranx armatus, 58, — asteriscus of 



