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Biological Suggestions. Assimilative Colouration. Part IL W. L. ie : 
The Birds of the Riffelalp, Canton Valais, Switzerland, P. L. Sclater, F : 
NovTEs AND QUERIES :— 
Mammaria.—Large Bank Vole in Kent, Oxley Grabham, M. ae ‘M.B.O. U., 41% 6 ame 
Aves.—Economy of the Cuckoo, Julian G. Tuck, 477; Oxley Grabham, ‘478. z 
The Cirl Bunting in Breconshire, Capt. E. A. Swainson, 478, Spotted . 
Crake in Furness, Charles F'. Archibald, 479. Pectoral Sandpiper i in Kent, 
N. F. Ticehurst, F.Z.S., 480. Notes on the Nesting of the Nuthateh, ag 
Stanley Lewis, 480. Irregular Nesting Sites, H. S. Davenport, 480. The — 
So-called St, Kilda Wren, eae Russell, 482. Varieties of Green Plover, &.; 
Scoters in Notts; J. Whitaker, 482. Crossbills in South-western Hamp- — 
shire in 1898, G. C. Corbin, 482. Heron Nest of Wire, 484; Great Skua 
in Notts, 485; J. Whitaker. Late Nesting of the Corn Bunting, Oxley — 
Grabham, 485. Late Stay of Swift, Rev. H. Marmaduke Langdale, 485. 4n 
Reprit1a.—Adder Swallowing its Young, Adam J. Corrie, éc., 485. f 
AmpuipsiA.—Abnormal Eyes of Hyla arborea and Bombinator igneus, Graham — 
Renshaw, 486. 
EDITORIAL GLEANINGS, 487-492. 
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