- Practical Taxidermy,—a Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting-up Natural History Specimens of all kinds, by Montagu Browne, 378
- Life in Early Britain, being an Account of the Early Inhabitants of this Island, and the Memorials which they have left behind them, by Bertram C.A. Windle, 477
- The Vivarium, being a Practical Guide to the Construction, Arrangement, and Management of Vivaria, containing full information as to all Reptiles suitable as Pets, &c, by the Rev. Gregory C. Bateman, 478
- A Bibliography of Gilbert White, the Natural Historian and Antiquarian of Selborne, by Edward A. Martin, 480
- Bæveren (Castor fiber) i Norge dens Udbredelse og Levemaade (1896), af R. Collett, 481
- The Concise Knowledge Natural History, by R. Lydekker, R. Bowdler Sharpe, W.F. Kirby, W. Garstang, B.B. Woodward, F.A. Bather, R. Kirkpatrick, R.I. Pocock, and H. M. Bernard, 482
- Citizen Bird,—Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners, by Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Coues, 483
- Darwin, and after Darwin, vol. iii., by the late George John Romanes, 522
- A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 523
- British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk, vols, i.-iii., 525
- John Hunter, Man of Science and Surgeon, by Stephen Paget, 527
Bos sondaicus, 489,—skull and horns, figured. 492, 495
Brabrook, E. W., honours for, 382
Breeding of Corncrakes in confinement, 85; South African Galago in confinement, 83; Ant-eater in captivity, 95; Roseate Tern in Britain, 165, 467; Caracal or Desert Lynx in captivity, 185; Black Bear in captivity, 185; Cape Hunting Dog in captivity, 186; Long-eared Owl in Essex, 232; Common Snipe in Romney Marsh, 271; Sparrows on a band-stand, 287; Tozenburg Goat in captivity, 291; Wild Sheep in captivity, 291; range of Yellow Wagtail in Ireland, 346; Kingfisher in Norfolk, 354; Black-throated Diver in Shetland, 364, 425, 509; habits of Purple Heron, 407; Montagu's Harrier in Ireland, 467; Ringed Plover inland in Norfolk and Suffolk, 502
British Museum Report, 1896, 484
Brown, John Harvie, museum destroyed by fire, 48
Buffon to Darwin, 312
Bull, Burmese Wild, description of, and Natural History notes on, 489; skull and horns, figured, 492, 495
Bunting, Black-headed, in Sussex, 273; Reed, nest in unusual position, 336; Siberian Meadow, 6
Burma, Upper, Zoology of, 286
Bustard, Great, old race of Norfolk, 289, 572; Indian Houbara, in Humber District, 47
Buteo desertorum, 158
Butterflies, light- and dark-coloured, proposed explanation as to appearance during day, 88; strange pairing, 521
Buzzard, Honey, in Staffordshire, 232, 271, 328; in Suffolk, 425
Callionymus lyra, 550
Call-notes of British birds, Dictionary of, 535, 576
Campylopterus ensipennis, 446
Canis dingo, 193
Capros aper, 548
Caracal or Desert Lynx breeding in captivity, 185
Carcharias glaucus, 564
Carpodacus erythrinus, 6
Centronotus gunnellus, 551
Cephalopod, Giant, alleged, reported from Florida, 291
Ceratorrhina burkei, 161; derbyana, 161
Certhiola atrata, 447
Cestode parasites of fishes, 534
Cetaceans, distribution, 220
Charadrius dominicus, a rare Plover, on the River Thames, 330
Check-list of British Earthworms, 453
Chicago Academy of Sciences, museum, 388