CONTENTS. 



The Great White Heron (Ardea alba) (with Plate), B. B. Lodge, 441. 



Notes on the Ornithology of Oxfordshire, 1904, 0. V. Aplin, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., 445. 



Some Fish-notes from Great Yarmouth for 1906 (with illustration), Arthur H. 



Patterson, A.M.B.A., 453. 

 Disappearance of many of our Home-bred Birds in Autumn, Bobert Warren, 459. 

 The Water-Pipit {Anthus spipoletta) as a Visitor to England, Michael J. Nicoll, 



F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 468. 

 Noths and Queries: — 



Mammalia. — Stoat and Ferret Hybrids, G. T. Bope, 468. 



Aves. — Grasshopper- Warbler in Midlothian, A. Urquhart <£■ B. B. Whyte, 468. 

 Lesser Eedpoll nesting in Koss-shire, G. A. & B. B. Whyte, 468. The 

 Eough-legged Buzzard in Somerset, Lieut.-Col. II. Meyrick, 469. Totanus 

 calidris in Bedfordshire, Mary Duchess of Bedford, 469. A Bemarkable 

 Cuckoo Clutch, Lieut.-Col. E. A. Butler, 469. The Birds of Scilly, W. B. 

 Ogilvie-Grant, 470. 

 Pisces. — File Fish on the Coast of Somerset, F. L. Blathivayt, 470. 

 Insecta. — Notes on the Mole-Cricket (Gryllotalpa vulgaris), Bev. O. Pichard- 

 Cambridge,A70. Goldsmith as a Naturalist, Bruce F. Cummings, 471. 



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