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Crossbill, 539, 872, 893; parrot, 543;
common, 545; at Ripon, 793
Crow, bonded, 537, 548, 894; nesting in
Norfolk, 1012; carrion, 600, 894
Cuckoo, 529, 895, 909; colouring of
eggs of, 828; abundance of at May-
field, 829; young, in the nest of a
meadow pipit, 914; at Peckham, id.;
singular position of egg of, id.; egg
placed in the nest by means of the bill
of, id.

Cuckoo's eggs, colouring of, 828
Curlew, 675, 900; pigmy, at Aldeburgh,

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

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Goldcrest and firecrest, 969
Goldeneye, 674, 905; at Eastbourne,

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

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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
Great Britain in 1866, 917

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
and eggs of, 989
Hawk, night, 985
Hedgehog, 631, 668, 881
Helix obvoluta, 837

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

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Horse, anecdote of the, 553; and dog,
vari-coloured eyes in, 788
Hybridity in water-fowl, 830

Ianthina fragilis in Dingle Bay, 954
Ibis, shell, 834

Ichthyology of Norfolk, 760

Immigrants, arrival of at Looe, 874; dates of the departure of for 1867, 1015

Jackdaw, 740, 820, 894
Jay, 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

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pomarina, id.

'Letters Home from Spain, Algeria and
Brazil, during past Entomological
Rambles,' 997
Limosa rufa, 770

Linnet, green, 734; mountain, 869, 893
Linnets, white, 606; gregarious in sum-
mer, and why, 634
Lizards of Labuan, 952
Lobster, enormous, 1018
Locusts, a flight of, 795
Loxia curvirostra, 768
Machetes pugnax, 770

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,
990; and wagtails, id.; dying from
cold, 1015

Martins "building-in" a sparrow, 915
Mastodon skeleton, perfect, 702
Meles labradorica, 787
Merganser, redbreasted, on the Bandon
River, 636; on the Firth of Forth, 905

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'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
Nightingale, 819

Nuthatch, nesting of the, 559
Oological notes from South-East Essex,

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

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sibiricus, 766

Pastor, rosecoloured, in Wales, 949; in
Norfolk, 1012

Peacock with white wings, 1016
Peewit, 743, 812, 899
Perch, variety of the, 954

Petrel, Fulmar, on the South coast of
Devon, 562; forktailed, 598; at Yar-
mouth, 916; storm, in Norfolk, 992,
1012; at Cromer, 992; at Aldeburgh,
id.
Phalarope, rednecked, 539; gray, 540,

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

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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
Procellaria glacialis, 771

Prussia Cove, notes of a stay at, 961
Ptarmigan, 898

Pucrasia macrolopha, 833
Puffin, 872, 906

Puffins on the Norfolk coast, 878, 951
Pyrrhula erythrina, 768

Quadrupeds of Lanarkshire, 667

Quail, 540, 545, 653, 730, 898, 909; in winter, 635; nesting in Essex, 915 Quails near Belfast, 607

Rabbit, 669

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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
Rooks, Mr. Kirby's, 835
Rudevisch, 916
Ruff, 688, 901

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
Scolopax gallinula, 770
Scops asio, 749

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
Shells, land, two rare in Sussex, 760
Shieldrake, 546, 903, 946
Shot, remarkable, 605
Shoveller, 741, 903

Shrew, common, 668, 882; oared, 668
Shrike, great gray, 540, 555, 594, 595,
887; woodchat, in the neighbourhood
of Plymouth, 557; redbacked, 689;
lesser gray a British bird, 703
Shrikes, the two great gray, 555, 605
Siskin, 543, 597, 893; at Oatlands, 705;
in Buckinghamshire, id.

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
Northam Burrows, 1017
Squirrel, 631, 668, 976

Squirrels and cat, 753

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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

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trochilus, 765

Systems, a review of, 584

Tailor-bird, Indian, 826

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Tegetmeier, W. B., Pigeons, their Struc-
ture, Habits and Varieties,' 929
Tench, curative powers of the, 563
Tern, black, 542; Sandwich, 543;
Exmouth, 832; on Inchmoin, 906; at

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