Man in Zoology, 13; Early, skulls found in Norfolk, 33; Palæolithic, and the glacial epoch, 95; Prehistoric, remains on Rombald's Moor, 145
Manx bird-names, 71, 144
Marine and Fresh-water Fishes of Great Yarmouth, &c, 539
Marmosa murina, 342
Marsh versus fen, 437
Marten, Pine, in Ireland, 141, 269, 327
Maurolicus pennantii, 559
Merlucius vulgaris, 554
Mesatlantis, the Middle Sea-region, 223
Mesirenia, the Middle Pacific Sea-region, 225
Miall, Prof. L.C., on study of zoology, 434
Migration of Red-legged Partridge, 166, 233; at Spurn lighthouse, in 1896, 245; of birds, 505
Migrants, summer, in Gloucestershire, 274; in Aberdeenshire, 366
Mimus gilvus, 448
Mollusca from Tangier, 244; non-marine, of Essex, 535
Molva vulgaris, 554
Momotus swainsoni, 447, 448
Motella cimbria, 554; mustela, 554; tricirrata, 554
Mugil capito, 552; chelo, 552
Mullus surmuletus, 544
Mus decumanus,344; musculus, 344; rattus, 198, 344
Museum Reports:—
- Oological collection in Australia, 47
- Harvie Brown Museum destroyed by fire, 48
- Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 80; locality-labels, 81
- Federal staff for local museums, 147
- Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 243
- Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 387
- Museum of Chicago Academy of Sciences, 388
- British Museum Report for 1896, 484
- Washington National Museum, 485
- Museum for Isle of Man, 579
Mustelus vulgaris, 564
Myiadectes sibilans, 448
Myrmecophaga jubata breeding in captivity, 95
'Naturalists' Directory,' 291
Naucrates ductor, 548
Nectomys palmipes, 344
Neolithic life in Devon and Cornwall, 49
Nerophis æquoreus, 563
Nest of Cape Wagtail with egg of South African Golden Cuckoo, 142; of Tit, strange discovery of, 167; of Reed Bunting in unusual position, 336; of Song Thrush with egg of Cuckoo, 364; of Spotted Flycatcher constructed in nest of Hawfinch, 426; of Magpie and of Wood Pigeon, proximity of, 427; of Thrush appropriated by House Sparrow, 427; unusual sites for, chosen by birds, 430
Nesting of White Wagtail in Suffolk, 233; habit, peculiar, of House Sparrow, 273; of Grey Wagtail in Lincolnshire, 274, 336; of Sparrows on a band-stand, 287; alleged, of Montagu's Harrier, in Kent, 363; of Wood Pigeon in heart of the city, 383; of Great Northern and Black-throated Divers in Shetland, 425, 509; sites, curious, near Thetford, 449; of Sparrowhawk in thorn-tree, 508; of Great Plover, 511; strange, of Nuthatch, 514,—Starling, 514
Nests and nesting sites, unusual, 430, 449
Nightingale near Scarborough, 332; and Blackbird, voices compared, 331
Nightjar, memory for locality in a, 330
Norfolk, ornithological record for 1896, 121; birds, amongst the, 168; fens, twenty years on, 351; fen versus marsh, 437
Norway, notes from, 22
Notopelagia, the Southern Polar Sea-region, 225
Nuthatch, strange nesting habits, 514
Nyctibius jamaicensis, 447
Nyctophilus timoriensis, 193
Obituary:—
- Bartlett, Abraham Dee, 267
- Bendire, Major Charles E., 230
- Cope, Edward Drinker, 229
- Dreschel, Professor, 533
- Gätke, Heinrich,
