CONTENTS. 



Some Holiday Notes from Breydon (with page illustration), Arthur H. Patterson, 

 A.M.B.A., 361. 



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 

 pugnax), Edmund Selous, 367. 



Notes and Queries : — 



Mammalia. — Variety of Badger, H. E. Forrest, 382. Melanic Short-tailed Vole, 

 J. Whitaker, 382. Daubenton's Bat (Myotis daubentoni) in Hertfordshire, 

 Chas. Oldham, 382. 

 Aves. — Status of the Grey Wagt lil, S. Hole, 382. Nesting of the Lesser Redpoll 

 (Linota rufescens) in Kent, Percy F. Bunyard, 383. An Albino Book, 

 G. B. Corbin, 383. Little Owl (Athene nocttta) in Bedfordshire, J. Steele- 

 Elliott, 384. Variety of Coot's Eggs, and Others, G. B. Corbin, 385. Buff 

 near Chester, A. Neivstead, 386. Sandwich Tern in Norfolk, Rev. Julian G. 

 Tuck, 386. Nesting of the Lesser Tern (Sterna minuta) in the Outer 

 Hebrides, Percy F. Bunyard, 386. White Binged Plover, J. Whitaker, 

 387. Food of the Black-headed Gull, E. P. Butterfield, 387. Little Auk in 

 Derbyshire, Bev. Francis G. B. Jourdain, 388. Fulmar (Fulmarus glaci- 

 alis) on the Suffolk Coast, Arthur H. Patterson, 388. 

 Arachnida. — Glielifer cancroides (Linn.) in Manchester (with illustration), G. A. 

 Whyte, 388. 



Obituary. — Professor Charles Stewart, F.R.S., 390. 



Notices of New Books, 391-394. 



Editorial Gleanings, 395-400. 



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FAMILIAR INDIAN BIRDS 



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Illustrated by Half-tone Blocks from the Drawings of 

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