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GENERAL INDEX. 
a birds’-nesting stick, 1899, 308 ; ex¬ 
hibition of abnormal birds’-nests,i 899, 
315 ; exhibition of an ornithological 
field-glass, 1899,448; description of 
an unrecorded egg of the Great Auk, 
1900, 694 . 
Bingham, C. T., on two new birds from 
Burrnah, noticed 1900, 548 . 
* Biologia Centrali-Americana,’ noticed 
1895, 281 , 394 ; 1896, 143 , 573 ; 
1897 ,462 ; 1898,301. 
*■ Bipolarity,’ remarks on, 1898, 429 . 
* Bird-Gods,’ DeKay’s, noticed 1900, 680 . 
‘ Bird-life,’ Py craft’s ‘ Story of,’ noticed 
1900, 687 . 
‘ Bird-lore/ noticed 1899, 453 . 
Birds of Prey, on the mode of carriage 
of the legs during flight, 1895, 183 , 
166 , 167 , 294 , 376 ; on Italian, noticed 
1895, 283 ; catalogue of the, in the 
Norwich Museum, noticed 1895, 394 ; 
on the moulting of, noticed 1899, 
323 . 
Biro, L., on the birds collected in New 
Guinea by, noticed 1900, 210 . 
Bismarck Islands, on the birds of the, 
noticed 1900, 203 , 211. 
Blaauw, F. E., account of the nesting of 
the Rufous Tinamou in captivity, 
noticed 1895, 487 ; exhibition of an 
egg of Psophia leucoptera laid in his 
aviary at s’Graveland, 1896, 260 ; 
‘ Monograph of the Cranes,’ noticed 
1897, 457 ; on the reproduction of the 
Rufous Tinamou in captivity, noticed 
1898, 299 ; letter on the moulting of 
Anseranas melanoleuca, 1898, 311 ; 
exhibition of eggs of the Weka Rail 
laid in his park at Gooilust, 1898, 
431 ; letter on the occurrence of Em- 
beriza pusilla in Holland, 1899, 330 ; 
letter on the characters of Chen rossi, 
1900, 399 . 
Blackburn, Mrs. H., ‘ Birds from 
Moidart,’ noticed 1896, 266 . 
Blackcap, exhibition of remarkable eggs 
of the, taken in Somersetshire, 1895, 
277 . 
Bladen, W. W., the Cuckoo and its 
foster-parents, noticed 1897, 121. 
Blanford, W. T., notes on the two Sarus 
Cranes of the Indian Region, 1896, 
135 ; ‘ Fauna of British India,’ Birds, 
vol. iii., noticed 1896,139; vol.iv., no¬ 
ticed 1898, 444 ; letter on the occur¬ 
rence of Phalaropus hyperboreus in 
India, 1896, 288 ; letter on Mr. Jesse’s 
paper “ on a day’s egging on the sand¬ 
banks of the Ganges,” 1899, 330 ; letter 
on a supposed new species of fossil bird 
from the Stonesfield Slate, 1900, 694 . 
Blasius, R., on birds of Malta and Gozo, 
noticed 1895, 388 . 
Bloomfield River District, N. Queens¬ 
land, on some eggs and nests from the, 
noticed 1895, 155 ; on some new eggs 
from the, 1896, 312 ; a trip to, 
noticed 1898, 165 . 
Bogota, on birds from the vicinity of, 
noticed 1900, 397 . 
Bohemia, on the birds of, noticed 1895, 
157 , 158 . 
Bolau, H., on Haliaetus pelagicus and 
H. branickii in the Hamburg Gar¬ 
dens, noticed 1895 ,388 ; on the bird- 
types in the Hamburg Museum, 
noticed 1899, 317 ; on the bird-house 
in the Hamburg Zoological Gardens, 
noticed 1900, 201. 
Bolivia, on Borelli’s birds from, noticed 
1898,170. 
Bonhote, J. L., exhibition of a series of 
skins of Fringilla cannabina, showing 
gradual change of colour on the 
breast-feathers, 1897, 115 ; descrip¬ 
tion of the nesting of Crex pratensis 
in captivity, and exhibition of a large 
skin of a Nightingale, 1897, 115 ; 
exhibition of specimens of birds from 
the Bahamas, 1899, 447 ; list of 
birds collected on New Providence 
Island, Bahamas, 1899, 506 ; exhibi¬ 
tion of a specimen of Mimus poly- 
glottus, 1899, 642 ; exhibition of a 
series of skins of Colymbus septen- 
trionalis showing various stages of 
moult, 1900, 184 ; exhibition of 
specimens in moult of Colymbus 
glacialis, 1900, 184 ; on moult and 
colour-change in birds, 1900, 464 . 
Borehgrevink, C. E., note on the voyage 
of, to the Antarctic Continent, 1896, 
427 . 
Bordighera, on birds observed near, 
1899, 443 . 
Borelli, A., on the birds collected in 
Bolivia and Argentina by, noticed, 
1898, 170 . 
Borneo, on the occurrence of Spatula 
clvpeata and Cotile riparia in, 1895, 
278 ; on a new Jumde-fowl from, 
noticed 1895, 395 ; Biittikofer’s ex¬ 
pedition to Central, noticed 1896, 
570 ; on the occurrence of Pratincola 
maura in, 1898, 458 ; exhibition of 
some birds from, 1900, 379 . 
Borrer, W., obituarial notice of, 1899, 
168 . 
Botel Tobago, on the geographical 
position of, 1899, 155 . 
Bottego, Capt, on some birds collected 
by, noticed 1898, 454 . 
