CONTENTS.
Biological Suggestions. Animal Sense Perceptions. W.L. Distant, 321.
An Observational Diary of the Habits—mostly Domestic—of the Great Crested Grebe (Podicipes cristatus), and of the Peewit (Vanellus vulgaris), with some General Remarks, Edmund Selous, 339.
Notes and Queries:—
- Mammalia.—Note on the Scaly Ant-Eater (Manis temmincki), Guy A.K. Marshall, 351.
- Aves.—Sparrow-Canary Hybrid?, H.J. Charbonnier, 353. Crested Lark, &c., released in England, Frank Finn, 353. Habits of Alcedo ispida, George W. Bradshaw, 354. An unrecorded Kite obtained in Huntingdonshire, J. Steele-Elliott, 354. Variety of the Shag, Williams & Son, 354. The Little Bittern in Cornwall, H.M. Evans, 354. Puffin off the Coast of Kerry, Williams & Son, 355. The Origin of the Name "Fulmar," H.A. Macpherson, 355.
- Reptilia.—The Sand-Lizard in the North of England, T.A. Coward, 355.
- Insecta.—A Dipterous Parasite in the Plumage of Birds, Alfred T. Comber, 357. Ornithoymia avicularia, Linn., E.E. Austen, 357.
Notices of New Books, 359-360.
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