Fourth Series. 



™~s [ OCTOBER 16th, 1916. No. 904. 



■HMMNIMM 



OLOGIST 



ESTABLISHED 1843. 



EDITEDBY U NOV 



FRANK FINN, B.A., F.Z.S. V 



LATE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, INDIAN MUSEUM", CALCUTTA. 



CONTENTS. 



ARTICLES. PAGE 



Some Miscellaneous Notes from Great Yarmouth (1915-16). Arthur 



H. Patterson 361 



Ornithological Eeport for the Maltese Islands (July-December, 1915). 



G. Despott, M.B.O.U., Nat. Hist. Museum, Malta... . 378 



Some German Enchytraeids. Rev. HildEric Friend ... ... ... 389 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Mammalia. 



Rats Eating the Eggs of Poultry. Henry Laver ... ... ... 395 



Eats and Eggs. J. M. McWilliam ... 395 



Aves. 



Breeding of the Lesser Redpoll in Sussex. Hugh Whistler ... ... 396 



Late Nesting of Barn-Owls. Joseph H. Symes 396 



Scarcity of Corncrakes in Somerset. Joseph H. 'Symes ... ... 396 



Common Scoter in Shropshire and Worcestershire. J. Steele Elliott 396 



Spotted Flycatcher Wintering in Oxfordshire. H. W. Robinson ... 397 



Ro >ks and Railways. F. Finn 397 



btatus <>f Lesser Whitethroat and Stonechat in North-West Yorkshire. 



E. P. Butteefield ... 397 



Bird and Insect Notes from Bolton Woods, Yorks. E. P. Butterfield 398 



Arachnida. 



Same Species of Tick Infesting Polecat and Otter. H. W. Robinson ... 399 



Echinoidea. 



A Mode of Feeding in a Sea-Urchin. H. N. Milligan ... 399 



Rate of Growth of Echinus miliaris. H. N. Milligan 399 



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