No. 6i. VoL. VI. 
January, 1895. 
Mature 12otes, 
CONTENTS 
THE MAG/VZINEXOF the 
WIT-K W-HIC-H IS INCORPORATED 
“THE FIELD CEUB: 
EDITED 
JAMES ERITTEN. F.LS 
THE GERMINATION OF MUMMY WHEAT .. 
By William Carruthers, F. R.S. 
THE DESTRUCTION OF HAWKS AND OWLS 
By John Cordeaux. 
ROOSTING HABITS OF CERTAIN BIRDS 
By G. T. Rope. 
THE NIGHTJAR 
By G. F. Ely. 
SHORT NOTICES OF BOOKS 
SELBORNIANA. Feeding the Birds. — Highgate Wood. — Protection of Birds 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES AND QUERIES. A Cuckoo Note.— Black- 
birds defending their Nest. — “Zulu” the Parrot. — Swallows and Insects. — 
Late Singing of Blackbirds, &c. — Peafowls. — Tortoise. — Woodpigeons in 
Paris. — An Interesting Pig. — A Tern at Hampstead. — Badgers raiding 
Wasps. — A Late Swallow. — Strange Behaviour of a Robin. — Food of the 
Wren 
TO CORRESPONDENTS 
SELBORNE SOCIETY— List of Branches. .. 
Xon&on — JOHN BALE & SONS, 85-89, Great Titchfield Street, W. 
CftB Bgent— ELLIOT STOCK, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
Px-ioe ad. 
