CONTENTS. 
Troglodytes hirtensis, 482; parvulus, 
190, 507 
Trout in Natal, 235 
Trypanide, 293 
Tsine, 1 
Tubifex, distribution, 119; rivulorum, 
119 
Turdus iliacus, 95, 504, 507; merula, 
507; musicus, 190, 264, 507; pi- 
laris, 95, 507; viscivorus, 507 
Turner, William, father of British 
Zoology, 337 
Turnstone, Dr. Saxby and the breed- 
ing of, 435 
Turtle, Leathery (Plate V.), 500 
Ulvacee, 396 
Ureginthus cyanogaster, 258 
Uria troile, 25 
Urolestes melanoleucus, 256 
Ursus euryspilus, 166; labiatus, 163, 
164; malayanus, 165; meles, 263; 
tibetanus, 162 
Vanellus vulgaris, 272, 508 
Varieties of Red Grouse, 125 
Variety of Common Guillemot, 25 ; 
Partridge, 114; Water Vole, 122; 
Green Plover, 482; Starling, 482; 
House Sparrow, 482 
Vespertilio murinus, 100; nattereri, 
493; serotinus, 100 
Vespertilionide of North America, 
45,46 | 
Vesperugo noctula, 302; pipistrellus, 
302 
Vivaria and aquaria, 40 
Voice-rezisters of birds, 11 
Vole, Bank, large, in Kent, 477,— 
notes on, 508; Black Water, in 
Suffolk, 122; Common, scientific 
name of, 263 
Vulpes vulgaris, 303; vulpes, 100 
Wagetail, White, in Ireland, 245 
Wagtails eating Trout, 82 
_Wates.—Water Pipit in Carnarvon- 
shire, 187; ornithological notes, 
198 ; Meadow Pipit, 266; Kite, 271; 
Daubenton’s Bat in the Conway 
Valley, 317; Cuckoo, 480; Cirl 
Bunting in Breconshire 478, 505; 
Natterer’s Bat, 493 
X1X 
Warbler, Barred, in Lincolnshire: 
504; Marsh, in Oxfordshire, 356; 
Melodious, in South-east Devon» 
265 ; Willow, breeding sites, 214; 
new to Britain, 520 
Wasp versus Spider, 29, 44 
Water supply, chemical and vegetable 
life in, 489 
Waterton, Charles, reminiscences of, 
144 
Whale and Seal Fishery, 69 
Whales attacking vessels, 42 
Whinchat in Co. Dublin, 356 
White, Gilbert, ‘Garden Kalendar,’ 
235 
Wild animals, price of, 234; beasts, 
Indian, a chat about, 154; birds 
and their eggs, protection of, 322, 
449; Cattle, Indian, 1 
Wing of Sky Lark, sexual differences 
in feathering, 104; of Sparrow, 
figured, 243 
Wolf, American, versus Irish Wolf- 
hounds, 94 
Wood, Rev. J. G., and his publica- 
tions, 42 
Woodpecker, Greater Spotted, nest- 
ing near Bath, 3818; at Wells, 
Somerset, 319 
Wren, St. Kilda, the so-called, 418, 
482 
Wretham Meres, 145 
Xipholena pompadora, 892 
Yarmouth, Great, Fishes of, 88; some 
notes on the Stalk-eyed Crustacea 
of, 178; notes from, 219, 364, 508; 
Mammalia of, 299 
Yorkshire, rough notes from, 349 
Zebra-Horse Hybrids (Plates I., II., 
III.), 49 
| *‘ Zoological Record’ for 1896, 39 
Zoological Park, New York, 189 ; 
Gardens, how animals are provided, 
141,—in Edinburgh, 449, 518,— 
proposed, in Australia, 518; Society 
of London, 237,—of Ireland, 331; 
rambles in Transvaal, 249; speci- 
mens, preservation of, 366 
Zoology, International Congress of, 
42, 
NEw SPEcIES oF British ANIMALS DESCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME. 
VermMes.—Limnodrilus wordsworthianus, Friend (Cumberland), p. 120. 
