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Mammalia of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 631, 701; Variety of the blackbird, 633; Ornithological notes from Buckinghamshire, 637; A large pike, 638; Siskin in Buckinghamshire, Canaries breeding in January, 705; Varieties of chaffinch's and other British birds' eggs, Curious fact connected with the brambling, 706; Goosander in Wiltshire, 709; Cat and squirrels, 753; Vari-coloured eyes in the dog and the horse, 788; Early arrival of swallows and martins, 827: Lampreys in the Thames near Windsor, 836; Martins "building-in " a sparrow, 915; Instinct in the swan, 916; Young lark feeding other young ones, 949; Greenshank and wood sandpiper near Aldeburgh, Curlew sandpiper near Aldeburgh, 950; Curious position of nests, 951; Variety of the perch, 954; Early arrival of fieldfares, 989; Late swift, 990; Pigmy curlew at Aldeburgh, 991; Ornithology of Berks and Bucks, 1014; Swallows and martins dying from cold, Dates of the departure of immigrants for 1867, 1015; Lesser spotted woodpecker near Windsor, 1016 CLIFTON, Lord

Peregrine falcon in Kent, 631; Red

headed puchard in Kent, 636; Query respecting gulls in Kent, 637; Savi's warbler (?), plover and lesser spotted woodpecker in Bucks, 704; Wood lark in Kent, 705; Hawfinches nesting in Kent, 793; Hobby in Kent, 948; Buzzards in Kent, 948, 989; Whitewinged partridge, 950; Varieties of birds, 987; Late greenfinch's nest, 989; A strange trap for swallows, Martins and wagtails,

990

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CORDEAUX, JOHN

Ornithological notes from North Lincolnshire, 546, 589, 690, 807, 943; Notes on the Ornithology of the English Lakes, 865; Notes from Flamborough, 1008

CORNISH, THOMAS

Scyllarus arctus near Penzance, 563; Silvery hair-tail in Mount's Bay, 793; Scyllarus arctus on the North Coast of Cornwall, 878; Allice shad in Mount's Bay, 916; Notes of a stay at Prussia Cove, 961; Redthroated diver netted at Penzance, 992; Enormous lobster, Gibbs' spider crab at Penzance, 1018

CREWE, Rev., H. Harpur, M.A.
The harvest monse and the cockroaches,
553; Instance of fearlessness in the
blackcap, 558

CRICHTON, ARTHUR W., F.LS.
Blackthroated diver at Wickham,
Hants, 608
CROTCH, W. D., M.A.
A reindeer hunt, 784
CROWLEY, PHILIP

Young hawfinch at Alton in June,
876

DEVIS, CHARLES W.

Hybridity in water-fowl, 830 DOBREE, N. F.

Pied wagtails near

Hornsea

in

January, 634; Smews from Holland, 636 DOUBLEDAY, HENRY

The willow grouse and red grouse,

707

DRESSER, H. E.

List of birds noticed in East Finmark, with a few short remarks respecting some of them, by Ch. Sommerfeldt, parish priest of Næsseby (translation), 692, 761; Notes on the breeding of the booted eagle, 803 DUTTON, JOHN

Guillemot and razorbill near Eastbourne, 759; Peregrine falcon breeding at Beachy Head, 791; Snow bunting at Eastbourne, 792; Kittiwake at Eastbourne, 793 FARREN, WILLIAM

Little owl near Cambridge, 791 FEILDEN, Captain H. W.

Nesting of the peregrine falcon, 702; Eggs of ring ouzel and blackbird, 703; Nesting of the blackthroated diver, 710; Dates of oviposition this year, 754; Nesting of the dipper, 755; Early nesting of the kingfisher,

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Notes on the Mammalia of Norfolk, 553; Bohemian waxwing in Norfolk and Suffolk, 663; Richard's pipit, shore lark and wood lark in Norfolk, 634; Curious abnormal growth of feathers in a woodpecker's tail, 707; Ferruginous duck in Nor folk, Rednecked and Sclavonian grebes and great northern diver in Norfolk, 709; The black guillemot, an addition to the list of Norfolk birds, 710; Blue and white varieties of British bird's eggs, 754; Food of great spotted woodpecker, 757; The smew, green sandpiper, &c., in Suffolk, 759; Ichthyology of Norfolk, 760; Parasitical worms in the stomachs of the common guillemot and cormorant, 795; Osprey in Norfolk, 823; Nesting of the redstart in curious situations, 824; Summer migrants, &c., near Norwich, 873; Puffins on the Norfolk coast, 878; Hob. by near Norwich, Varieties of kestrel's eggs, 948; Variation in the plumage of the green woodpecker, Variety of the silver pheasant, 950; Puffin on

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GUYON, GEORGE

Whales off the Isle of Wight, 554; Curative powers of the tench, 563 HADFIELD, Captain HENRY

Greenland seal near Ryde, 700; Ornithological notes from the Isle of Wight, 732, 819, 908, 985; Carrection of an error-the gray seal, 787; Fleas in Southern India, 837 HARTING, JAMES EDMUND, F.L.S The birds of Shakespeare, 530, 649; A review of systems, 584; Goshawk in Ireland, 632, 703; An inquiry into the nature and properties of the swallow-stone and swallow's-herb, 744; Stock doves breeding in a church, 758; Occurrence of two rare land shells in Sussex, 760; Toadstones, 835; Occurrence of Sylvia aquatica for the second time, so far as is known, in England, 946; The distinguishing characters of some nearly-allied species of British birds,

965

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LEGGE, W. VINCENT, F.Z.S.

Oological notes from South-East Essex, 599; Ornithology of the Firth of Cromarty, 670, 831

MATHEW, G. F., R.N., F.L.S.

Snow bunting at Sea, 559; Magpie
with yellow beak, 1016

MATHEW, Rev. MURRAY A., M.A.
Bee-eater at Stapleton, near Bristol,

561; Gray phalarope at Barnstaple,
562; Capture of swifts by hook and
line, 827; Egyptian goose at Barn-
staple, 831; Sabine's gull at Weston-
super-Mare, 992; Spoonbill on Nor-
tham Burrows and black redstart at
Barnstaple, 1017

MAW, GEORGE

Rats on the coast, 822 MAWSON, GEORGE

Hare feeding on hawthorn-berries, 604; Beautiful variety of the fieldfare, 633; Badger at Cockermouth, 822 MAY, J. W.

Life-histories of sawflies, translated from the Dutch of M. S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven, 639

MONK, T. J.

Great snipe and other rare birds near Brighton, 1017

MOOR, E. CHARLES

Nesting of the nuthatch, 559; Orni

thological notes from Aldeburgh, 822; Swallows and martins picked up dead at Aldeburgh, 990; Storm petrel at Aldeburgh, 992

MULLER, ALBert

Are blue-bottle flies distasteful to bats? 911

MURTON, JAMES

Vipers and toads, 836 NEWMAN, EDWARD, F.L S., F.Z.S., &c. Visit of the Bohemian waxwing, 560; Waxwings, 561; Letters on variation in Lepidoptera, 721, 841; Death of the Rev. Hamlet Clark, 840; Starvation of Birds, 911; Cuckoos at Peckham, 914; Mackerel in the Boulogne aquarium, 954 NEWTON, Professor ALFRED

Magpie with a yellow beak, 757, 913 NORGATE, Major T. F.

Notes of a Naturalist in India, 993 NORMAN, GEORGE

Curious processes in the tail of the redwing, 606; The willow grouse and red grouse perching, 607; Red grouse and willow grouse, 758

PLANT, JOHN

Swallows at Salford, 1015 POWER, F. D.

Siskins during the first week in March, 825; Extraordinary flock of wood sandpipers at Rainham, Kent, 991 POWER, W. H.

Redshank in breeding plumage in January, 708; Gulls in Kent, 710; Early appearance of jack snipe,

1016

RANSON, JOHN

Pied wagtail wintering in North Yorkshire, 875

RICHARDSON, MARCUS

Number of eggs laid by the swift, 990 ROBERTS, GEORGE

Anecdote of the horse, Rats and mice, 553; Nesting of the song thrush, Nesting of the flycatcher, 557; Nesting of the cole tit, 560; Toadstones and eagle-stones, 707; Dates of arrival of the summer migrants near Wakefield in 1867, 822; Grayheaded wagtail near Norwich, 824; White eggs of the yellowhammer, 825; Nesting of the peregrine in Yorkshire, 947: Yorkshire haunts of the pied flycatcher, 949 RODD, EDWARD HEARLE

Merlin in Scilly, The two great gray British shrikes, 555; Cornish specimens of the jerfalcon and redfooted falcon, 605; The lesser gray shrike, 703; Little bittern in Cornwall, 759; Hoopoe near Helston, Cornwall, 793; Golden oriole at Scilly,

825; Little bittern near the Lizard, Purple crested heron near the Lizard, 829 Squacco heron, 830; Hybrid black grouse on Bodmin Moors, 991; Autumnal migration at Scilly, 1014; Surf scoter and firecrested regulus at Scilly, 1017 ROGERS, HENRY

Rock thrush, hoopoe and pied flycatcher in the Isle of Wight, 823; Rock thrush at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, Ortolan bunting and curlew sandpiper in the Isle of Wight, 912

ROWLEY, GEORGE DAWSON, M.A., F.L.S. Shore larks in Suffolk, 560; Nesting

of the kingfisher, 827; Hawfinches' nests and eggs, 989 SAUNDERS, HOWARD, F.Z.S: A birdsnesting trip to the north of Ireland, 609 SAXBY, HENRY L., M.D. Ornithological notes from Shetland,537, 688; Food of the wood pigeon, 561 SHORTO, JAMES, jun.

Great snipe near Dorchester, 608; Pied wagtails in January, 704; Bitterns near Dorchester, 708; The bunting a bird of Shakespeare, 756; Golden and green plovers, 759 SMEE, A. H.

Arctic tern near Gravesend, Skua on the Thames, 1017; Sandwich tern at Whitby, 1018

SMITH, CECIL

Purple sandpiper, little gull and

Fulmar petrel on the South Coast of
Devon, 562; Redthroated diver and
Norfolk plover in Somerset and
Devon, 760; Lesser tern at Taunton,
Sandwich tern and snow bunting at
Exmouth, 832

STEVENSON, HENRY, F.L.S. Ornithological notes from Norfolk, 593, 727,871,1012; Rock pipit in Norfolk, 876; Whitewinged black tern in Norfolk, 951

STUBBS, CHARLES E.

Little auk, &c., at Henley-on-Thames, 710; A large otter, 822; Bramblings at Henley-on-Thames, 825; Lapwings at Henley-on-Thames, 829 SWEETAPple, Edward

Large sturgeon in the Severn, 836; Large salmon in the Severn and Wye, 916

THOMSON, WILLIAM

Helix obvoluta and Clausilia Rolphii,
Clausilia biplicata, 837; Rudevisch,

916

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Ascension, Island of, 979
Astur palumbarius, 782

Auk, little, 675, 690, 738, 906, 1013; in the West of England, 637; at Henley

on-Thames, 710

Avocet in the County Cork, 635; near Weymouth, 759

Badger, 631, 668; at Cockermouth, 822;
Labrador, in Kent, 787

Badgers, abundance of in Kent, 787
Bat, 667, 881; longeared, 667
Bats, are blue-bottle flies distasteful to ?
911

Bear, sea, death of, 701; brown, 883
Bee-eater at Stapleton, near Bristol, 561
Bergylt near Hartlepool, 638

Bird-breeders, a day among at the Point of Air, 924

Bird, British, what gives a claim to be classed as a? 755, 789; blue, the bonny wee, 823

Bird's nest, double, 789 Birds of Norfolk,' 747 Birds of Shakespeare, 529, 649 Birds, rare, in Northamptonshire, 555; power of imitation in, 598; list of, noticed in East Finmark, 692, 761; British, blue and white varieties of eggs of, 754; summer, arrival of at Shooter's Hill and neighbourhood, 814; list of noticed in West Sutherland, 860; varieties of eggs of, 875, 911; of Stirlingshire, collected observations on the, 884, 989; starvation of, 911; of Scandinavia, 951; piebald and rare, fate of, 959; British, distinguishing characters of some nearly-allied species of, 965; varieties of, 987 Birdsnesting trip to the North of Ireland,

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Bunting a bird of Shakespeare, 756 Bunting, Lapland, in Lancashire, 558; at Lewisham, 705; snow, at sea, 559; at Hunstanton, id.; near the Humber, 591; in North Lincolnshire, 691; on Blackheath, 705; at Eastbourne, 792; at Exmouth, 832; in Stirlingshire, 892; blackheaded, id.; ortolan, in the Isle of Wight, 912

Bustard, great, at Horsey, Norfolk, 635 Buteo lagopus, 761

Buzzard, honey, 545, 908, 912; in Aber-
deenshire, 554: common, 589, 597,
866, 886, 909; at Looe, 948; rough-
legged, in Dumfriesshire, 604
Buzzards in Kent, 948, 989
Calidris arenaria, 769
Calosoma Curtisii, 646
Canaries breeding in January, 705
Canine fecundity, 910
Capercallie, 897

Cat and squirrels, 753
Cat, wild, 921

Cattle, wild white, 669
Cerapterus Macleayii, 646
Cetacea and seals, 923
Chaffinch, 591, 686, 892
Charadrius helveticus, 769
Chiffchaff, 890, 968

Chough, Cornish, 678; reparation of a
maimed beak in the, 1015
Chrysalides, remarks on the coloration of,
1020
Ciconia nigra, 872
Cimbex lateralis, 639
Cinclus aquaticus, 765

Cirl and yellow bunting, 971 Clark, Rev. Hamlet. M,A., F.L.S., 'Letters Home from Spain, Algeria and Brazil, during past Entomological Rambles,' 997; death of, 840 Clausilia biplicata, 837

Rolphii, id.

Columba livia, 535

turtur, 768 Colymbus arcticus, 775 Coot, 603, 902

Cormorant, 540, 594, 666, 676, 871, 906, 1014; has not the white leg at Christmas, 688; parasitical worms in the stomach of, 795

Corvus pica, 763

Crab, Gibbs' spider, at Penzance, 1018 Crake, spotted, 597; corn, migration and bybernation of, 678; in North Lincolnshire, 943; little, and Baillon's, 974; spotted, in Lancashire, 1017 Creeper, 895

Crocodile, Bornean, voracity of the, 878

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