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Tidings at Eastertide— Charles H. H. Walker ... ... ... 228 



Notes on a few Indian Game Birds — F. E. Prescot-Decie ... ... ... 222 



Reports of Societies ... ... ... ... . ... 223 



DeiJephila Galii— C. S. Gregson ... ... ... ... ... 229 



Notes and Observations — ... ... ... ... ... 232-5 



House Martin — Thos. H. Briggs ; Podiceps minor at Derby — G. Pullen, 

 Derby ; Artificial Bodies for Lepidoptera which are apt to Grease — Robert 

 Adkin, Lewisham, S.E.; Destruction of rupee by Mice — C. E. Stott. 

 Bolton-le-Moors ; The Past Season — H. J.Turner, Hatcham, S.E.; Liparis 

 Dispar — J. Henderson, Streatham ; Cerastis vaccinia and spadicea — Id ; 

 Polia Chi emerging in Spring — John E. Robson, Hartlepool; Nyssia 

 Zonaria at Wallasey — C. S. Gregson, Liverpool ; Insects in November in 

 North London— John Henderson, Streatham; Anew Ichneumon from 

 Chelonia Villica — G. C. Bignell, F.E.S., Plymouth; Setting Coleoptera— 

 C. S. Gregson, Liverpool; Hybernia brumata— J, E. Robson, Hartlepool, 

 Reviews — An Illustrated Handbook of British Dragonflies— Editor of the 



Naturalist's Gazette ... " ... .. ... 236 



Wild Nature won by kindness, by Mrs. Brightwen. London : T. Fisher Unwin 237 

 Larva Collecting aud Breeding, by the Rev. J. Seymour St. John ... 237 



Supplement — British Spiders — Revd O. P. Cambridge ... ... ... 



Index— Year 1890. 



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