CONTENTS. 



XVll 



PLATES. 



Plate I. Skylarks and Starlings at Cromer Lighthouse 



('Mouths of Serranus gigas, right half (Fig. 1);^ 



,, II. \ Serranus scriba (Fig. 2); Apogon rex mul- L 



( lorum, (Fig. 3) ; Centropristes hepatus (Fig. 4) j 



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 418 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT. 



Portrait of Dr. Richard Bowdler Sharpe 37 



Asterisci from skulls of Teleostean Fishes (twenty-five figures) . 59 



Auditory Organs of Pagellus centrodontus ..... 62 



Cone detached from Scotch-fir by Crossbill * 129 

 Newly-sown wheat, molluscs, and triturated material contained in 



the stomachs of seven Starlings 147 



Five figures (pp. 162, 163, 166, 169, 174) to illustrate paper on the 



formation of useless habits in Molge cristata and M. palmata 161 



Young Great Tits, twenty-two days old 208 



Otoliths taken from Fishes (nineteen figures) 293 



Otoliths taken from Fishes (seven figures) 294 



Nest and Young of Red-backed Shrike 309 



Dog acting as Foster-mother to young Kitten 375 



Stephanitis rhododendri, Horv 395 



Willow-Wrens of a Lothian Wood : Map showing position of Nests 405 

 Diagram typical of left half of a Fish's Gullet, defining branchial 



arches and bones 420 



Mouth of Morone labrax '. 424 



Jago's Goldsinny (Ctenolabrus rupestris) 451 



Pelamys sarda ........... 454 



Malformed Pincer-claws of Edible Crabs 460 



Diagram of barb or ramus of a Kingfisher's blue feather . . 464 



