Vol RT xx S No KS 240 } DECEMBER 15th, 1916. No. 906. 



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ZOOLOGIST 



ESTABLISHED 1843. 



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EDITED BY 



FRANK FINN, Bl, F.Z.S. 



LATE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, INDIAN MUSEUM, CALCUTTA. 



CONTENTS. 



ARTICLES. PAGE 



Ornithological Eeport for the Maltese Islands (January — June, 1916). 



G. Despott, M.B.O.U. ... 441 



' r ;gration Notes from a Passenger Steamer. Hugh Whistler ... 453 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 

 Aves. 



Notes from Sussex. Robert Morris 459 1 



Abnormalities in Mandarin and Muscovy Ducks. F. Finn ... ... 461 



Note on the Nesting of the Wren. E. P. Butterfield ... ... 462 



Distribution of the Linnet in Britain. E. P. Butterfield 463 



Food of the Ring-Dove. E. P. Butterfield 464 



Books and Railways. John B. B. Masefield ... ... ... ... 464 



Storks or Cranes at Gallipoli. F. C. B. Jourdain ... ... ... 464 



Longevity in a Magpie. (Miss) A. Preyss ... 465 



An Unusual Blackbird's Nest. Eric L. Kelting 465 



Status of the Stonechat in N.W. Yorkshire Harry B. Booth ... 465 



Yellowhammer's Nest in Bick. S. G. Cummings ... ... ... 466 



Yellow Wagtail in Bedfordshire in November. J. Steele Elliott . . . 467 



Pisces. 



Meaning of " Skull Sly ce." J. H. Gurney 467 



Gast po pod a. 

 Behaviour of Chit on ruber. H. N. Milligan ... ... - ... ... 467 



Insecta. 



Wasps' Nest in a Gun. Robert Morris 46S 



Asteroidea. 

 Growth and Regeneration in Solaster papposus. H. N. Milligan ... 469 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS 469 



PREFACE. TITLE-PAGE, AND INDEX. 



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