Mice of St. Kilda, 191
Microgaster, 454
Migrants in Aberdeen (1899), 271; spring, in Yorkshire, 323
Migrations, early spring, 193
Milport, Maine, Biological Station, 238
Milvus ictinus, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247; Korschun, 241; migrans, 241, 244, 247; milano, 241
Mimicry, 289, 341, 443, 529
Misocalius osculans, 140
Monitor, Cape, 226, 272; correction, 421
Montagu, Col. George, 378
Moor-hen, nesting habits, 30, 31, 81, 82, 557; eggs and nest of, 182
Mosquitoes, how to collect, 428
Motacilla alba, 61, 157, 162, 418; borealis, 61; flava, 157, 267; lugubris, 86, 268, 271; melanope, 162, 271; raii, 286
Mouse, Long-tailed Field, climbing powers of, 27
Müller, Johannes, monument to, zoological sketches of, 560
Mungoose, Thick-tailed, habits of, in South Africa, 179
Mus sylvaticus, 27
Muscicapa atricapilla, 60, 134; grisola, 60, 85, 162, 369, 556
Museum Reports, &c:—
- Birmingham Nat. Hist. Collection, 236
- Chicago Academy of Sciences, 382
- Essex Local and Educational Mus. of Nat. Hist., 288
- London School Board, 240
- Robertson Museum, 238
Mussels of Mississippi River, 480
Mustela erminea, 79, 131, 179; putorius, 79; vison, 305
Mycteris longicarpus, 412
Mylodon, supposed existing, 380
Myotis daubentoni, 472; mystacinus, 49, 131, 471, 475
Myxicola, 457
Myxine, 350
Myzomela nigra, 141
Natal, zoological notes from (with Plate), 145
Nautilograpsus minutus, 536
Nemathelminthes, 348
Nephila, 414
Neptunus pelagicus, 432
Nest, strange, of South African Pied Bush Shrike, 80; of Titlark with Toad in, 87; of male Blackbird with stored seeds, 181; of Moor-hen, 182; of Red-backed Shrike with eggs of Cuckoo, 222, 323; of Thrush piled up with ivy-berries, 320
Nesting of Goshawk in Yorkshire, 28; habits of Moor-hen, 30, 31, 81, 82, 557; of Short-eared Owl, 121; of Mistle-Thrush, 180; birds, covering of eggs by, 183; of Common Snipe near London, 225; of Black Kite in Verona, 241; of Starlings in fir trees, 370; sites, abnormal, of Willow Wren, 555; of Tree Creeper in roof, 556; place, abnormal, of Spotted Flycatcher, 556
Nestor notabilis, 307
Nests of Short-eared Owl, 421
Niagara Falls, loss of avian life, 44
Nicotiana tabacum, 348
Nightjar in Malta, 256; time of arrival, 369; Red-necked, in Malta, 255
Nightjars, diary of habits, 388, 406
Nisus sphenurus, 351
Norfolk, ornithological record from (1898), 113; destruction of birds, 114, 183
Norway, Northern, ornithological notes from, 54
Numenius arquata, 65, 74, 271, 419; phæopus, 65, 74
Nycticorax ardeola, 247; caledonicus, 140
Obituary:—
- Baur, Georg Hermann Carl Ludwig, 95
- Bonheur, Rosa, 281
- Büchner, Prof. Ludwig, 280
- Cordeaux, John, 384, 415
- Everett, Alfred Hart, 96
- Flower, Sir William Henry, K.C.B., F.R.S., 337
- Hewetson, Henry Hendelack, 280
- McCoy, Prof. Sir F., 280
- Marsh, Prof. O.C, 234
- Nicholson, Prof. Alleyne, 95
- Stark, A.C, Dr., 559
- Stevens, Samuel, 479
- Sykes, Christopher, 47
- Whitehead, John, 382
- Wolf, Joseph, 234
Ocypoda cordimana, 408
Oddi ornithological collection, 432
Œdemia nigra, 30, 80, 557
Œdicnemus crepitans, 545
Ophiderpeton, 301
