CONTENTS. 



IX 



Birds and butterflies, 36 



Birds, London, bibliography of, 15 ; 

 of Eastbourne Crumbles, 64; larval 

 nematodes in blood of, 337 ; some 

 Swiss, 30, 393 ; morality in, 360 



Birdsnestingin August, 352 



Birgus latro, 439 



Bittern in Warwickshire, 469 ; Little, 



in Oxfordshire, 468 

 Blackbird, 31 



Blackcock, observational diary of the 



nuptial habits, in Scandinavia and 



England, 401 

 Blackstart, 31 

 Blastus tetraodon, 294 

 Blatta germanica, 21 

 Books Noticed : — 



The Sportsman's British Bird 

 Book, by R. Lydekker, 34 



A List of Irish Birds, by Bichard 

 J. Ussher, 35 



Animal Romances, by Graham 

 Renshaw, 36 



The Edible Fishes of New South 

 Wales, by David G. Stead, 36 



The Culture of Vegetables and 

 Flowers (Pests of Garden Plants), 

 by Sutton & Sons, 37 



A Treatise on Zoology, edited by 

 Sir Ray Lankester, Part I. In- 

 troduction and Protozoa, First 



" Fascicle by S. J. Dickson, J. J. 

 Lister, F. W. Gamble, A. Willey, 

 H. M. Woodcock, the late W. F. 

 R. Weldon, and E. Ray Lankes- 

 ter, 116 



The Life of Philibert Commerson, 

 D.M., Naturalistedu Roi, an Old- 

 World Story of French Travel 

 and Science in the days of Lin- 

 naeus, by the late Capt. S. Pas- 

 field Oliver, and edited by G. F. 

 Scott Elliot, 117 



Catalogue of the Noctuidse in the 

 Collection of the British Mu- 

 seum, by Sir George F. Hamp- 

 son, 119 



A Naturalist in Tasmania, by Geof- 

 frey Smith, 199 



Mendel's Principles of Heredity, 

 by W. Bateson, 236 



A S'tudent's Text-Book of Zoology, 

 by Adam Sedgwick, 237 



A Treatise on Zoology, edited by 

 Sir Ray Lankester, Part VII., 

 Crustacea by W. T. Caiman, 238 



The Foundations of the Origin of 

 Species, a Sketch written in 



1849 by Charles Darwin, edited 

 by his son, Francis Darwin, 275 

 The Life of a Fossil-Hunter, by 



Charles H. Sternberg, 276 

 A Guide to the Natural History of 

 the Isle of Wight, edited by 

 Frank Morey, 318, 348 

 A Survey and Record of Woolwich 

 and West Kent, edited by C. H. 

 Grinling, T. A. Ingram, and 

 B. C. Polkinghorne, 319 

 The Making of Species, by Douglas 



Dewar and Frank Finn, 357 

 The Wild Beasts of the World, by 



Frank Finn, 358, 400 

 The Kea, a New Zealand Problem, 



by George R. Marriner, 399 

 The Cambridge Natural History, 

 Vol. IV., by Geoffrey Smith, 

 Henry Woods, A. E. Shipley, 

 Cecil Warburton, and Professor 

 D'Arcy W. Thompson, 439 

 Egyptian Birds, for the most part 

 seen in the Nile Valley, by 

 Charles Whymper, 440 

 The Place of Animals in Human 

 Thought, by the Countess Evelyn 

 Martinengo Cesaresco, 470 

 The Home-life of a Golden Eagle, 

 photographed and described by 

 H. 13. Macpherson, 472 

 Botaurus stellaris, 469 

 Brambling, late stay of, 196 

 Branchiostoma lanceolatum, 461 

 Breeding of Nightingale in Shrop- 

 shire, 28, 74,— in Staffordshire, 28, 

 75 ; Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 

 and Great Spotted Woodpecker in 

 Staffordshire, 29 ; Cole-Tit in Wils- 

 den district, 75; Redshank and 

 Shoveler in North Devon, 255, 

 316 ; Wigeon in Cumberland, 271 ; 

 Sparrow-Hawk in Shropshire, 467 

 Brill var. (Plate IV.), 450 

 Brochymena arborea, 436 

 Bubo ignavus, 79 

 Buccinum undatum, 201 

 Bullfinch, 31 



Bunting, Common, 232 ; Little, in 

 Norfolk, 124 



Bustard, Great, reported near Scar- 

 borough, 78, 113 



Buteo lagopus, 109, 113, 468 ; vul- 

 garis, 78, 253, 348 



Buzzard, Common, 138, 395, — in 

 East Sussex, 348; Honey, in Staf- 

 fordshire, 76 ; Rough-legged, in 

 Surrey, 468 



