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CONTENTS. 



A few Notes on the Natural History of the Pembrokeshire Coast. — C. G. Barrett 

 The Entomological Year {continued).-— Albert H. Waters, B.A. 

 The Hazel.— J. P. Soutter .. 



The Rook in Captivity.— F. W. Halfpenny and S. H. Veale 

 Apanteles Glomeratus and Mesochorus— G. C. Bignell. . 

 British Birds : their Nests and Eggs, " The Bunting." — S. L. Mosley 

 Butterflies around Liverpool. — F.N.Pierce 

 The Bittern Nesting in England.— W. H. Bath 

 Our London Letter .. 

 Derbyshire Naturalists' Society 

 Haggerston Entomological Society 

 Supplement : Label List of British Lepidoptera 



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