CONTENTS. 



Notes on the Arctic Whaling Voyage of 1905, Thomas Southwell, 41. 



The Pigeon Hollandais, Graham Benshaiv, M.B., F.Z.S., 49. 



Notes on Marine Crustacea in Confinement, Albert H. Waters, B.A., 53. 



A Note on the Aranece around Yarmouth (with illustration), Bichard Hancock, 58. 



A Plea for the Further Recognition of Subspecies in Ornithology, W. BusTcin 

 Butterfield, 62. 



Bird-Notes in Switzerland and Germany in June and July, 1905, Bev. Charles W. 

 Benson, LL.D., 65. 



Notes and Queries: — 

 Mammalia.— Notes on Cave Bats, Stanley Lewis, 69. Whiskered Bat (Myotis 

 mystacinus) and Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Bhinolojrfius hipjiosiderus) in 

 Denbighshire, Charles Oldham, 70. Mus alexandrinus at Yarmouth, 

 Arthur H. Patterson, 71. 

 Aves. — Breeding of the Twite, Charles E. Pearson, 71. Cirl-Bunting (Emberiza 

 cii'lus) in Cheshire, S. G. Cummings, 71. Shore-Lark in Cheshire, T. A. 

 Coward, 72. The Cuckoo and its Foster-parents, Bev. Allan Ellison, 72. 

 White-tailed Eagle (Haliaetiis albicilla) in Staffordshire, John B. B. Mase- 

 field, 74. Whoopers in Islay, Flora Bussell, 74. Colour of Eyes in Fuligula 

 nyroca, Maurice CM. Bird, 75. Eider (Somateria mollissima) i in Cheshire, 

 Charles Oldham, 75. Interesting Hybrid Duck, 75 ; Sea-going Pigeons, 76 ; 

 Arthur M. Patterson. Peculiar Habits of Gallinula chloropus, M. J. C. 

 Meihlejohn, 76. Knot inland in Cheshire, T. A. Coward, 76. Interesting 

 Acquisitions by the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, Alfred New stead, 77. 

 Pisces. — Flying Fish reported from Yarmouth (?), A. H. Patterson, 11. 

 Crustacea. — Arctus ursits (better known as Scyllarus arctus) at Guernsey, 

 F. S. Wright, 78. 



Obituary. — Charles John Cornish, 78. 



Notices of New Books, 79-80. 



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