Crossbill, 539, 872, 893; parrot, 543; Cuckoo's eggs, colouring of, 828 991 Deer, red, 978; discovery of the horns of, and other animal remains, in the bed of the River Ribble, 1001 Deinacrida heteracantha, 849 megacephala, 850 thoracica, id. Deinacrida, notes on the genus in New Zealand, 849 Dipper, 750, 887; nesting of the, 755 Diver, great northern, 596, 675,819,905; in Norfolk, 709; at Looe, 951; blackthroated, at Wickham, Hants, 608; in Dublin Bay, 686; nesting of, 710; on Loch Lomond, 905; redthroated, 675, 739, 743, 819, 905; migration and powers of flight of, 680; no "redthroat" in winter, 681; no "redthroat" till two years old, 682; scarcity of in Dublin Bay at the end of 1866, id.; in Somerset and Devon, 760; netted at Penzance, 992 Divers, 597 Dog and horse, vari-coloured eyes in, 788 Dotterel, 808, 870; ringed, 945 Dove, turtle, 543, 649, 689, 985; ring, 597, 732, 897; stock, 742 Doves, stock, breeding in a church, 758 Duck, wild, 664, 691, 904; longtailed, 674; in Dublin Bay, 686; scaup, 674; breeding in Britain, 878; ferruginous, in Norfolk, 709; shoveiler, in the South of Ireland, 708; tufted, 742 Dunlin, 539, 598, 692, 902; variation in length of bill of, 813 Dunlins at Kingsbury Reservoir, 829 Eagle, whitetailed, 537; baldheaded, in Achill, 562; sea, 729, 885; booted, notes on the breeding of, 803; golden, 884 Eagles, golden and whitetailed, 966 Egg of cuckoo, singular position of, 914; placed in the nest by means of the bill, id. Eggs of ring ouzel and blackbird, 703; of British birds, varieties of, 706, 875; blue and white varieties of, 754; white varieties of, 823; white, of yellowhammer, 825; of cuckoo, colouring of, 828; of swift, the number laid, 915, 990; kestrel's, varieties of, 948; and nests, of hawfinches, 989 Elk, 978 Emberiza citrinella, 767 " lapponica, id. rustica, id. Entomological Society, proceedings of, 564, 569, 643, 711, 796, 833, 879, 1018 Goldcrest and firecrest, 969 636 Goldfinch, 892 Goosander, 595; in Wiltshire, 709; in the South of Ireland, id.; and other birds on the Firth, 636 Goose, 659; pinkfooted, 592; Egyptian, in Yorkshire, 636; at Barnstaple, 831; near Northampton, id.; in Stirlingshire, 903; bean, 673, 902; brent, 673, 903; Canada, at Coombe Bissett, 708; on Loch Lomond, 908; at Aldeburgh, 916; graylag, 902; bernicle, 903 Goshawk in Ireland, 632, 703 Graculus carbo, 775 99 cristatus, id. Grallatores, 677 Grebe, little, 603, 689, 905; affected by cold, 636; rednecked, in Norfolk, 709; on the Firth of Forth, 905; Sclavonian, in Norfolk, 709; on Loch Lomond, 905 Greenfinch, 594; late nest of, 989 Greenshank, 907; near Aldeburgh, 950 Grouse, willow and red, perching, 607; specific identity of, 707, 758; black, 898; red, id.; Pallas's sand, id.; hybrid black, on Bodmin Moors, 991 Grus cinerea, 769 Guillemot, black, 538, 545; in Norfolk, 710; bridled or ringed, 542; common, parasitical worms in the stomach of, 795 Guillemot, in summer plumage in De cember, 686; near Eastbourne, 759 Gurney, J. H., jun., A Summary of the Occurrences of the Gray Phalarope in Gull, 666; Sabine's, 543; little, 545, 595; lesser blackbacked, 547, 672, 907, 910; kittiwake, natural history of, 548; Sabine's, in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 557; in Cornwall, 608, 710; at Weston-super-Mare, 992; little, on the South coast of Devon, 562; at Eastbourne, 636; at Aldeburgh, 916; at Leicester, 991; at Flamborough Head, 1018; blackheaded, 596, 673, 907; breeding of at Pilling Moss, Lancashire, 832; common, 672, 739, 907; natural history of, 625; its habits, id.; nidification of, 629; its food and cry, 630; flight, resting, swimming, id.; glaucous, 671; Iceland, 671; in Orkney, 1018; great blackbacked, 672, 907; herring, 672; Buonaparte's, 906; brownheaded, 945 Gulls, 692; vomiting their food, 711 Gulls in Kent, query respecting, 637; reply thereto, 710; masked, Iceland and glaucous, near Scarborough, 637 Hair-tail, silvery, in Mount's Bay, 793 Hare, feeding on hawthorn-berries, 604; alpine, 669; common, 669, 977 Harrier, hen, in the West of England, 637; in Stirlingshire, 887; Montagu's, 912; hen, 1006 Hawfinch, young, at Alton, in June, 876; at Selborne, 913, 949 Hawfinches nesting in Kent, 793; nests Hen swallowing a slow-worm, 950; a sagacious, 991 Heron, 655, 899; purplecrested, near the Lizard, 829; squacco, 830; at Weymouth, 915 Hirundo riparia, 764 rustica, id. urbica, id. Horse, anecdote of the, 553; and dog, Ianthina fragilis in Dingle Bay, 954 Ichthyology of Norfolk, 760 Immigrants, arrival of at Looe, 874; dates of the departure of for 1867, 1015 Jackdaw, 740, 820, 894 Jerfalcon, Cornish specimen of, 605 Kestrel, 732, 886, 1006; varieties of eggs of, 948 Kestrels breeding in confinement, 702 Kingfisher, 533, 895; breeding of, 707; early nesting of, 757; nesting of, 827 Kite in Stirlingshire, 632, 886 Kittacincla macroura, 825 Kittiwake, 673, 739; at Eastbourne, 793 Knot, 809, 901 Lampreys in the Thames near Windsor, 836 Laudrail in January, 636 Lapwing, 602, 654, 754 Lapwings at Henley-on-Thames, 829 Larida, British, 625 pomarina, id. 'Letters Home from Spain, Algeria and Linnet, green, 734; mountain, 869, 893 Mackerel in the Boulogne aquarium, 917, 954; in aquaria, 954 Magpie, with a yellow beak, 706, 757, 826, 877, 913, 1016; in Stirlingshire, 894 Mammalia of Norfolk, 553; of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 631, 701 Marmot, alpine, 976 Martin, 534, 808, 819, 820, 896, 985, 987; sand, creamcoloured, 561; white, 680; sand, 897 Martins and swallows, 594; early arrival of, 827; picked up dead at Aldeburgh, Martins "building-in" a sparrow, 915 'Natural History of the Tineina,' 919 Naturalist, notes of a, in India, 993 Nature, curious freak of, 541 Nest of song thrush, 557; of flycatcher, id.; of nuthatch, 559; of cole tit, 560; of swallow, late, 606; of peregrine falcon, 702, 790, 947; of the dipper, 755; of kingfisher, 757; of hawfinch, 793; of meadow pipit, young cuckoo in, 914; of quail, 915; late, of yellowhammer, 949; late, of greenfinch, 989 Nesting of the redstart in curious situations, 824; of the kingfisher, 827; of woodcocks, 872 Nesting tour in Sutherland, extracts from a journal of in 1867, 851 Nests, curious position of, 951; and eggs, hawfinches', 989 Newman's Birdsnesting,' notes on, 987 Nuthatch, nesting of the, 559 599 Oriole, golden, at Scilly, 825 Ornithological notes from Shetland, 537, 688; from Beverley, East Yorkshire, 540; from North Lincolnshire, 546, 589, 690, 807, 943; from Falkirk, 554; from Norfolk, 593, 727, 871, 1012; from West Sussex, 596, 730, 811; from Stirlingshire, 608, 637; from Buckinghamshire, 637; from the County Dublin, 678; from the Isle of Wight, 732, 819, 908, 985; from Aldeburgh, 822 Ornithology, letters on, 548, 625; of the Firth of Cromarty, 670, 831; of the English Lakes, 865; of Berks and Bucks, 1014 99 sibiricus, 766 Pastor, rosecoloured, in Wales, 949; in Peacock with white wings, 1016 Petrel, Fulmar, on the South coast of 593, 596, 735, 738, 739, 1014; at Shoreham, 561; at Barnstaple, 562; autumn moult of, 683; in Norfolk, 1016 Phalaropus rufus, 770 Pheasant, 897; Pukras, 833; silver, variety of, 950 Pieris Pyrrha, monstrous individual of, 571 Pigeon, 535; wood, 546, 690; food of, 561, 593, 758; food and destructiveness of, 685; rock, 677 Pigeons, 972 Pigeons, their Structure, Habits and Varieties,' 929 the nest of, 914; water, at Brighton, 792; tree, 869, 891 Pipits, meadow and tree, 970 Plover, golden, 539, 548, 590, 690, 759, 870, 899; gray, 541, 809; green, 548, 590, 690, 759; ringed, 598; Norfolk, in Somerset and Devon, 760 Plovers, golden and gray, 972; ringed and little ringed, id. Pochard, 674, 904; redheaded, in Kent, 636; tufted, on the River Lea, 709 Podiceps arcticus, 776 Polecat, 553, 668, 701 Prussia Cove, notes of a stay at, 961 Pucrasia macrolopha, 833 Puffins on the Norfolk coast, 878, 951 Quadrupeds of Lanarkshire, 667 Quail, 540, 545, 653, 730, 898, 909; in winter, 635; nesting in Essex, 915 Quails near Belfast, 607 Rabbit, 669 Redwing, 548, 737, 889; curious processes in the tail of the, 606 Regulus, goldencrested, 890; firecrested, at Scilly, 1017 Reindeer hunt, 784 Robin, nocturnal melody of, 684;】Indian black, 825; and wren, 1007 Roe-deer, 669; history and habits of the, 778 Rook, 601, 739, 743, 819, 894 Ruticilla fuliginosa, 833 Salmon, large, in the Severn and Wye, Sparrows, wanted in New Zealand, 913; 916 Sanderling, 538, 899 Sandpiper, 871, 900; green, 543, 547; in Suffolk, 759; near Ingatestone, Essex, 915; purple, on the South, coast of Devon, 562; first arrival of in 1866, 682; its habits, id.; in Stirlingshire, 902; curlew, in the Isle of Wight, 912; near Aldeburgh, 950; at Grangemouth, id.; wood, near Aldeburgh, id. Sandpipers, green and wood, 973; wood, extraordinary flock of at Rainham, Kent, 991 Sawflies, life-histories of, 639 Scoter, velvet, in Shropshire, 633; surf, at Scilly, 1017 Scyllarus arctus near Penzance, 563; on the North Coast of Cornwall, 878 Seal, Greenland, near Ryde, 700, 754; the gray-correction of an error, 787 Seals and Cetacea, 923 Shad, allice, in Mount's Bay, 916 Shag, 676, 906; crested at Christmas, 687 Shama, 825 Shearwater, great, 543; Manx, 543, 908 Shrew, common, 668, 882; oared, 668 Siskins during the first week in March, 825 Skua, common, 811; piebald variety of, 992; Richardson's, 907; Buffon's, on the Norfolk coast, 992 Skuas, 1013; on the Thames, 1017 Slow-worm, hen swallowing a, 950 Smew, unusual occurrence of the, 608; in Suffolk, 759; on Loch Lomond, 907 Smews from Holland, 636 Snipe, 537, 658, 901, 946; great, near Dorchester, 608; in Stirlingshire, 901; jack, id.; early appearance of, 1016; great, and other rare birds, near Brighton, 1017 Sparrow, tree, 540; house, 892; martins "building-in" a, 915 damage done by, 944 Species and varieties, 719 Spoonbill at Aldeburgh, 916; on the Squirrels and cat, 753 Swallows, strange trap for, 990; at Salford, 1015 Swallows and martins, 594; early arrival of, 827; picked up dead at Aldeburgh, 990; dying from cold, 1015 Swan, 662; instinct in the, 916; Bewick's, 903; black, id.; mute, id. Swans, 974 Swift, 543, 869, 896, 908; only perches on its nest, 915; number of eggs laid by, 915, 990; late, 990 Swifts, capture of by hook and line, 827 Sylvia aquatica, occurrence of for the second time, so far as is known, in England, 946 trochilus, 765 Systems, a review of, 584 Tailor-bird, Indian, 826 Tegetmeier, W. B., Pigeons, their Struc- at |