Trachinus draco, 546; vipera, 546
Trachurus trachurus, 548
Transvaal, zoological rambles in and around, 157
Trapping Shrews and Voles, 507, 571
Trichosurus vulpecula, 205
Trigla cuculus, 545; gurnardus, 546; lineata, 546; pœciloptera, 545; hirundo, 545
Trinidad, mammals of, 424
Trogon meridionalis, 447
Tunny on Essex coast, 579; Longfinned, or Germon, in British waters, 580
Turbot, albino, 339
Turdus gymnophthalmus, 448
Turtle, gigantic, on coast of Natal, 382
Varanus niloticus, 162
Variety, Bull-dog, of Sapphirine Gurnard, 275, 339; Grasshopper Warbler, 333; Common Mackerel, 340
Vertebrates, origin of, 531
Vipers before birth, 148
Voices of Blackbird and Nightingale compared, 331
Vole Bank, in Jersey, 141; in Denbighshire, 328
Voles and Shrews, trapping, 507, 571
Vultures and Towers of Silence, 143
Wagtail, Grey, nesting in Lincolnshire, 274, 336,—in Leicestershire, 336,—in Itchen Valley, 513; Pied, in Itchen Valley, 513; White, in Warwickshire, 337,—nesting in Suffolk, 233; Yellow, in Argyllshire, 167,—breeding range in Ireland, 346
Wales.—Grey Seal in Carnarvonshire, 141; Lesser Shrew in Anglesea, 326; Bank Vole in Denbighshire, 328; Black Tern in Anglesea, 329; Alpine Pipit in Carnarvonshire, 366; garden list of birds in Pembrokeshire, 419
Warbler, Aquatic, in Hampshire, 471; Grasshopper, variety, 333; Greenish Willow, 5; Icterine, at Lyme Begis, 332; Pallas's Willow, in Norfolk, 5, 8, 136,—figured, 136; Yellowbrowed, 5.
Warblers, rare, in Sussex, 333
Washington National Museum, 1896, 485
Wasp, Tipula, and Spider, 475
Weasel attacking Frog, 369
Weaver, Lesser, strange position of a, 339
West Indian birds, notes on some, 444
Whale, Sperm, captured near Azores, 145; parasites on, 145; and Seal fishery, 1896, 56, 142
Whales, enormous stranding at Falkland Islands, 47
Winchester water-meads, notes, 34
Winter life of animals and plants in United States, 242
Wolmer Forest, preservation, 534
Woodpecker, Green, boring in November, 573; Lesser Spotted, habits, 470
Worm, Aster, 349
Wren,Willow, singing in autumn, 513
Wryneck, egg-producing powers, 511
Xyphias gladius, 549
Yarmouth, Great, marine and freshwater fishes of, 539
York School Nat. Hist. Report, 188
Yukon District of Canada, birds, 430
Zebras, revised list of, 380
Zeugopterus punctatus, 556
Zeus faber, 548
Zoarces viviparus, 551
Zoology, Man in, 13
Zygæna malleus, 564
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Plate I. Ostrich, "bromming" and "rolling" | to face 97 |
| Plate„ II. Rhinolphus hipposideros, Bechst.: sleeping positions | to face„ 537 |
| Labels, locality, &c, in use at the Brussels Museum | 81 |
| Pheasant with upper mandible prolonged | 122 |
| Pallas's Willow Warbler, Phylloscopus proregulus | 136 |
| Bull-dog Variety of Sapphirine Gurnard | 276 |
| Meristic variation in the Edible Crab | 340 |
| Skull and horns: Bos sondaicus—Bull | 492 |
| Skull and horns:„ Bos sondaicus„—Cow | 495 |
| Sketch Map of Water Area in neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth | 539 |
