CONTENTS. 1X 
Beet 311, 429; a bad-tempered, 
Blackbird, Moorhen, Starling, and 
Woodcock, varieties of, in South- 
west Hants, 107 
Blackeap, 429 
Books Noricep :— 
Hugenio Rignano upon the Inheri- 
tance of Acquired Characters, 
translated by Basil C. H. Har- 
vey, 77 
The Great Auk, a Record of Sales 
of Birds and Eggs by Public 
Auction in Great Britain, 1806- 
1910, with Historical and De- 
scriptive Notes, by Thomas 
Parkin, 78 
A Naturalist on Desert Islands, 
by Percy R. Lowe, 79 
The Sportsman’s Handbook to 
Collecting, Preserving, and Set- 
ting-up Trophies and Specimens, 
together with a Guide to the 
Hunting Grounds of the World, 
by Rowland Ward, 79 
The Ox and its Kindred, by R. 
Lydekker, 117 
Prehistoric Man, by W. L. H. 
Duckworth, 117 
Butterfly-hunting in many Lands, 
by George B. Longstaff, 118 
More Animal Romances, by Gra- 
ham Renshaw, 119 
Distribution and Origin of Life in 
America, by Robert Francis 
Scharff, 159 
Evolution in the Past, by Henry 
R. Knife, 160 
Reptiles, Amphibia, Fishes, and 
Lower Chordata, by R. Lydek- 
ker, J. T. Cunningham, G. A. 
Boulenger, and J. A. Thomson, 
199 
Aristotle’s Researches in Natural 
Science, by Thomas East Lones, 
235 
A Catalogue of the Vertebrate 
Fauna of Dumfriesshire, by 
Hugh 8. Gladstone, 236 
Studies in Bird Migration, by 
William Eagle Clarke, 277 
The Flight of Birds, by F. W. 
Headley, 278 
A Hand-List of British Birds, with 
an Account of the Distribution 
of each Species in the British 
Isles and Abroad, by Ernst 
Hartert, F.C. R. Jourdain, N. F. 



Ticehurst, and H. F. Witherby, 
279 
The Depths of the Ocean — a 
General Account of the Modern 
Science of Oceanography, based 
largely on the Scientific Re- 
searches of the Norwegian 
Steamer, ‘ Michael Sars,’ in the 
North Atlantic, by Sir John 
Murray and Dr. Johan Hort, 
with contributions from Profes- 
sors A. Appelléf and H. H. Gran 
and Dr. B. Helland-Hansen, 318 
Science ofthe Sea—an Elementary 
Handbook of Practical Oceano- 
graphy for Travellers, Sailors, 
and Yachtsmen, edited by G. 
Herbert Fowler, 319 
The Early Naturalists, their Lives 
and Work (1580-1789), by L. C. 
Miall, 852 
Birds of Northumberland and the 
Eastern Borders, by George 
Bolam, 353 
Wild Life in the West Highlands, 
by Charles Henry Alston, 399 
The Arctic Prairies, a Canoe- 
Journey of 2000 Miles in Search 
of the Caribou, &e., by Ernest 
Thompson Seton, 400 
The Teratology of Fishes, by 
James F. Gemmill, 436 
The Marine Mammals in the Ana- 
tomical Museum of the Univer- 
sity of Edinburgh, by Sir Wm. 
Turner, 437 
British Plant-Galls, a Classified 
Textbook of Cecidology, by E. 
W. Swanton, 438 
The Humble-Bee, its Life-history 
and how to Domesticate it, with 
Descriptions of all the British 
species of Bombusand Psithyrus, 
by F. W. L. Sladen, 438 
The Mechanistic Conception of 
Life — Biological Essays, by 
Jacques Loeb, 470 
The Home-life of the Terns or Sea- 
Swallows, photographed and de- 
scribed by W. Bickerton, 471 
Report on the Immigration of 
Summer Residents in the Spring 
of 1911, also Notes on the Migra- 
tory Movements and Records 
received from Lighthouses and 
Light-vessels during the Autumn 
of 1910, by the British Ornitho- 
logists’ Club Committee, 472 
