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The Birds of North Kent (with Plate), Thomas Hepburn, 41 



Observations tending to throw Light on the Question of Sexual Selection in Birds, 

 including a Day-to-day Diary on the Breeding Habits of the Buff {Machetes 

 pugjiax), Edmund Selous, 60. 



Notes on the Arctic Whaling Voyage of 1906, Thomas Southtoell, 66. 



Notes and Queries : — 

 Mammalia. — Albinic Mus rattus, Arthur H. Patterson, 69. 



A VEST— Peculiar Nesting-site for the Wheatear on the Sussex Coast, P. W. Harvey, 

 69. Great Grey Shrike in Dorset, Bey. E. F. Linton, 70. Hawfinch at 

 Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Rev . William W. Flemyng, M.A., 70. Bitterns in 

 Suffolk, Rev. Julian G. Tuck. 71. " Smew (Mergus albellus) in Cheshire, 

 Charles Oldham, 71. Sabine's Snipe in Ireland, W. J. Williams, 71. 

 T ring a alpina in Northamptonshire, 72 ; Colymbus glacialis in Gloucester- 

 shire, 72 ; 0. V. Aplin. Some Rare Visitors to Bartragh Island, Killala 

 Bay, Robert Warren, 72. Birds observed at Grindelwald, E. F. A. Hay, 73. 

 Westward Movement of Birds during Snow, Robert Morris, 74. Iceland 

 Gulls in Donegal, J. Steele-Elliott, 74. 



Notices of New Books, 75-79. 



Editorial Gleanings, 80. 



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