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INDEX OF CONTENTS, 
Meade-Waldo, E. G. B., on the destruc¬ 
tion of bird-life in Great Britain, 
543. 
Meek, A., on the birds collected on St. 
Aignan Island by, noticed, 204. 
Meinertzhagen, D., and Hornby, R. P., 
‘ Bird-life in an Arctic Spring,’ no¬ 
ticed, 388. 
Mercerat, A., on the Stereornithes, 
noticed, 553. 
Mexico, on new birds from North¬ 
western, noticed, 211. 
Migration, Herman on, noticed, 207; 
at Irish Light-Stations, noticed, 677. 
Milne-Edwards, A., obituarial notice of, 
563. 
Mivart, St. G., obituarial notice of, 
562. 
Monk, T. J., notice of death of, 220; 
obituarial notice of, 402. 
Montana, on the migration of Phala- 
ropes in, 67. 
Moult, on the birds’, 464; on the sum¬ 
mer moult of Ducks, noticed, 690. 
Mozambique, on a collection of birds 
obtained by Mr. Cavendish in, 109. 
Munich, Report of the Ornithological 
Society of, noticed, 388. 
Musters, P., exhibition of a pair of 
Anser erythropus obtained in Norway 
by, 375. 
Nansen, F., and Collett, R., ‘ The Nor¬ 
wegian North Polar Expedition, 1893 
-96,’ noticed, 554. 
Natal, on the birds of, noticed, 216. 
National Collection of Birds, progress 
of the, 696. 
Negros Island, on birds from, 351. 
Nelson, E. W., on new birds from 
North-western Mexico, noticed, 211. 
Nesting-boxes, exhibition of some birds’, 
376. 
Nests, description of some New Guinea 
birds’, 612; on Australian birds’, 
noticed, 685. 
Neumann, O., on the genus Sigmodus, 
noticed, 685 ; revision of the African 
Bush-Shrikes, noticed, 685. 
New Forest, on the preservation of 
birds in the, 544. 
New Guinea, on Biro’s birds from, 
noticed, 210; on rare birds from, 
noticed, 212; description of some 
nests and eggs from, 612. 
New Hebrides, on Capt. Farquhar’s 
birds from the, 337, 364; ornitholo¬ 
gical notes in the, 607. 
New Zealand, on the ornithology of, 
noticed, 201, 
Nile, on the birds collected during the 
Lovat Expedition to the Blue, 115, 
304; Garstin’s Expedition to the 
White, 402. 
Noble, H., exhibition of eggs of the 
Spine-tailed Swift and of the nest, 
eggs, and nestlings of White’s Thrush, 
377. 
North, A. J., description of a new 
Honey-eater from N. Queensland, 
noticed, 389 ; description of the nest 
and eggs of Microeca pallida, noticed, 
389; notice of his new work on the 
eggs of Australian birds, 571; on 
nests and eggs of Australian birds, 
noticed, 685. 
Northcott, H. P., exhibition of birds 
obtained at Gambaga, Gold Coast 
Colony, by, 183; note on the death 
of, 361. 
Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 
noticed, 554. 
Notes of Wild Birds, Witchell on, 
noticed, 216. 
Novaya Zemlya, two summer voyages 
to, noticed, 390. 
Noxious birds, on the danger of intro¬ 
ducing, noticed, 557. 
Oates, E. W., note on the progress of 
his new Catalogue of Eggs, 572. 
Oberholser, H. C., on birds from the 
Cameroons, noticed, 389; on birds 
collected by R. P. Currie in Liberia, 
noticed, 389; some untenable names 
in Ornithology, noticed, 555; on 
birds from Santa Barbara Islands, 
noticed, 686; on birds collected by 
Dr. Abbott in Central Asia, noticed, 
686; on birds from Madagascar, 
noticed, 687- 
Oldham, C., and Coward, T. A., ‘The 
Birds of Cheshire,’ noticed, 679. 
Olive, E., on the birds obtained on the 
Katherine River by, noticed, 387; 
field-notes on the birds of Cooktown 
and Cairns, North Queensland, 617. 
Osgood, W. H., on Chamjea fasciata, 
noticed, 390. 
Ostrich, on the pairing and incubation 
of the, 219. 
Oustalet, E., on birds from the Eschiras, 
W. Africa, noticed, 556; on some 
birds from W. China, noticed, 556; 
on the birds of Dahomey, noticed, 
556; on the birds of Cambogia, Laos, 
Annam, and Tonquin, noticed, 557. 
Palmer, T. S., on the danger of intro¬ 
ducing noxious birds, noticed, 557. 
