February, 1894. 
No. 50. VoL. V. 
Mature 12otes, 
CONTENTS 
FACE 
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WIT-H WHICH IS INCORPORATED^ 
“THE FIELD CLUB: 
EDITED by 
JAMES BRITTEN. F.LS 
A BAND OF MERCY 
By Lady Tennyson. 
A FLORIDA TORTOISE 
By W. M. E. Fowler. 
WILD LIFE IN TASMANLV By H. S. Dove, F.Z.S 
UNEXPECTED TRAITS IN BIRDS. By Alexander H. Japp, L.L.D. .. 
THE PARK ON THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS. By Archibald Clarke. 
FURTHER NOTES ON LONDON BIRDS. ByA. HolteMacpherson, M. A. 
OUR REPTILES. By the Rev. W. R. Tate 
WEATHER LORE 
SHORT NOTICES OF BOOKS 
SELBORNIANA. Birds at a Window. — .A Plea for Sea-Gulls. — Cage Birds. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES AND QUERIES. Fight between Rat 
and Snake. — Tomtits and Butter. — Starlings Chasing a Hawk. — Stoat and 
Birds. — Blackbirds, Thrushes and Crumbs. — Birds’ Beaks. . . 
TO CORRESPONDENTS 
SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES 
lon&on — JOHN B.\LE & SONS, 87-89, Great Titchfield Street, W. 
Cit? Bgent— ELLIOT stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
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