THE l^^ATTJUALIST. 



The Editors hope to puhlish the folloiving papers zvithin the next few tnoiiths: — 

 List of the Mosses and Hepatics of Westmorland— George Stabler. 



Notes on the Food and Habits of Slugs and Snails.— W. A. Gain, RI.C.S. 

 Yorkshire Boulder Committee— Second Year*s Work.— S. A. Adamson, F.G.S 

 Bibliography: Geology and Palaeontology, 1887. 



The Watterjack Toad in Cheshire and Lancashire.— Linn^us Greening. 



Natural History of Lincolnshire.— The next instalment of this is to be upon the 

 Mammalia, by John Cordeaux. Schedules have been prepared for obtaining informa- 

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The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 



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Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and 

 Autumn of 1886. 



By J. A. HARVIE-BROWN, J. CORDEAUX, R. M. BARRINGTON, 

 A. G. MORE, and W. EAGLE CLARKE ; 



Members af the British Association. Migration Committee. 



To be had of W. Eagle Clarke, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh ; 

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THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 



BY 



REV. H. A. MACPHERSON, M.A., M.B.O.U., 



AND 



WILLIAM DUCKWORTH. 

 CARLISLE - - - Messrs. THURNAM, English Street. 



This work, warmly praised in ' Nature' and ' The Ibis,' is not a dry catalogue, but an account 

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