Microtus glareolus, 153
Migration of birds in Great Britain and Ireland, 117; in South Africa, 195; in N.E. Lincolnshire, 201
Miliaria projer, 11
Milvus affinis, 258; ater, 6; ictinus, 6, 71, 270, 354
Mimicry, suggested, of South African Weasel, 220; active, by Chaffinch, 223
Miolania, 120
Molge palmata, 225
Monkeys, Brazilian, names of, 238
Montifringilla nivalis, 11
Monticola cyanus, 9; saxatilis, 9
Moor-hen, 253; hairy-plumaged, 108; nesting-habits, 17, 71
Mosquitoes at Scarborough, 479
Motacilla alba, 10, 31, 117, 184, 247, 284, 404; beema, 389; campestris, 69; flava, 271; melanope, 204; lugubris, 154, 189; raii, 204, 248; sulphurea, 10
Motella tricirrata, 23
Mouse, Long-tailed Field, climbing powers, 221; De Winter's Wood, in Worcestershire, 423
Mus, alexandrinus, 153; decumanus, 153; rattus, 153; sylvaticus, 221
Muscardinus avellanarius, 68, 423, 472
Muscicapa atricapilla, 204; grisola, 8, 469
Museums—Calcutta, 198; Sarawak, 198
Mylodon listai and other South Amecan Edentata, structure of hairs of, 438
Mytilus edulis, 118
Names of British birds, 72, 109
Naturalists, Hull, bygone, 199
Neopithecops gaura, 198
Nephrops norvegicus, 23
Nest of Dormouse, building a, 68
Nesting of Long-eared Owl, 31,—Jackdaw, 70, 154,—Barn Owl, 136,—Pigmy Falcon in Upper Burma, 224,—Lesser Redpoll in Sussex, 315,—Ægialitis hiaticula in Middlesex, 389,—Marsh Warbler in Somersetshire, 472; habits, of Moor-hen, 17, 71,—Oystercatcher, Common Tern, and Common Heron in Holland, 318
Nests, compound and mixed, of American Ants, 440
Nettion castaneum, 257; crecca, 209
New South Wales, importation of destructive foreign mammals in, 237
Newt, Palmate, in Carnarvonshire, 225
Nightjar hawking May-flies, 70
Nisaëtus morphnoides, 258
Noctule, observations on, 51, 153
Nomenclature, necessity for a provisional, for forms of life which cannot be at once arranged in a natural system, 119
Norfolk, ornithological notes from, 121; Natural History of, proposed volume on, 237
Norman, George, 199
Nucifraga caryocatactes, 14, 107
Numenius arquata, 104, 189, 211; cyanopus, 257; phæopus, 104, 211, 284, 415
Nutcracker in Sussex, 107
Nutrition on sex, negative evidence regarding influence of, 118
Nyctæa scandiaca, 407
Nyctala tengmalmi, 6
Obituary:—
- Queen Victoria (to face title)
- Abrahams, Joseph, 151
- Bedford, F.P., 280
- Bowker, Col. J.H., 399
- Doherty, William, 386
- Fiske, John, 279
- Macpherson, Rev. H.A., 480
- Ormerod, Eleanor A., LL.D. (with portrait), 310
- Whitehead, Alfred, 279
Oceanodroma leucorrhoa, 299
Œdicnemus crepitans, 108; scolopax, 98
Œdemia nigra, 413; perspicellata, 282
Okapia johnstoni, 278
Oriolus galbula, 13
Orkney, Siskin in, 425
Ornithomyia avicularia, 357, 431
Ornithologists, early, 376
Osprey at Rye Harbour, 427; in Hampshire, 427
Otocorys alpestris, 11, 283
Otis tarda, 98; tetrax, 98, 270, 428
Ouzel, Ring, 250; habits, 28; at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 69
Owl, Long-eared, 251,—nesting, 31; Little, at Henley, 476
Oxypterum pallidum, 358
Oystercatcher, 253, 471
Pairing manœuvres of Pigeons, &c., 181, 270
