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CONTENTS. 



and in such a state as to lead to the conclu- 

 sion that they are brought thither by a 

 Water-spout, 318; White Bait in the Frith 

 of Forth, and at Kincardine, 318 ; Devoted- 

 ness of a Sow to the rescue of her Offspring 

 from Fire, 377 ; Seeming Proof of reasoning 

 in the Domestic.Cock, 377; Blackbird, an In- 

 stance of its mimicking the Song of the Night, 

 ingale, 378 ; Daring of Birds on account of 

 their Young or Eggs, an Instance in the Robin, 

 480 ; Birds building Nests in unusual Situa- 

 tions; two Instances in the Robin, 481 ; Sixty 

 Grubs found within a Rook, 481 ; Theory of 

 Lamarck, " Vis formativa," &c, 542 ; Nests 

 of the Woodcock in England, 543 ; Periodi- 

 cal Regularity with which Rooks commence 

 building, 544 ; Martin's Nest occupied by a 

 House Sparrow, 545 ; Redstart, the Nature of 

 its Food, &c, 545; Acetate of Strychnine 

 useful to Entomologists, 546; Falco J/ali- 

 ae x tus shot near Oxford, 546 ; Singular Cap- 

 ture of respertilio'Noctula, at Southampton, 

 597; Papilio Podaliriu* a British Insect, 

 599 ; Insect Habits, 601 ; Capture of Sphinx 

 nerii at Southampton, 601 ; Rearing of Sa- 

 turnia Hesperus in England/602 ; Notes on 

 a Cruise off" Cherbourg, 641 ; Singular Habit 

 of a Gull, 642 ; Dressena polym6rpha, 643. 

 BOTANY. 



Plantago major, with a Panicle of Bracteas> 

 having the place of Inflorescence, 204; 

 Plantago lanceolata, Instances of kinds of 

 Monstrosity in, 204; Plantago mddia, with 



• its Scape bearing not a Spike of Flowers, but 

 numerous enlarged Bracteas, disposed into a 

 Tuft, resembling, more or less, a many- 

 petaled Rose-flower, 205 ; /Vis tuberdsa, 

 grows wild in Cornwall, 205 ; ^nagallis 

 cairulea, the Question of its distinctness as 

 a Species, and also of A. arvensis, 206 ; Co- 

 ronilla varia, a British Plant, 606; 3/yrlca 

 Gale, singular Disproportion between the 

 Sexes of, in the New Forest, 605 ; Beet Root 

 Sugar, 605. 



GEOLOGY. 



A Notice'of a recently discovered Locality for 

 the Fossil Remains of the Elephant, 46 ; 

 Modern Conglomerate, 46 ; Moving or Burst- 

 ing of Bogs, 319 ; Important Discovery in 

 Ireland, 546. 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 

 What are those Bodies, some circular, some 

 oval, which are to be found in the Gault at 

 Folkstone ? 47 ; The Bloodhound in Britain, 

 156 ; The Irish Greyhound, where can it be 

 seen alive in Ireland ? 156 ; Incendiaries dis- 

 covered by Bloodhounds, 156; Should the 

 Egret be classed among the British Birds? 

 319; To what Properties of Nature is it 

 owing that the Stones in Buildings, formed 

 originally of the frailest Materials, gradually 

 become indurated by Exposure to the Atmo- 

 sphere ? 379 ; Isle of Sheppey, Facts and 

 Questions on the Geological Conditions of, 

 380. 488 ; The Mole, Carrion Crow, &c, do 

 they occur in Ireland ? 482. 546 ; What is 

 the best Method of depriving Birds of the 

 Power of Flight, with'the least Appearance of 

 Mutilation ? 483 ; Do any, and what, British 

 Species of Birds breed' before they have at- 

 tained Mature Plumage ? 483 ; Does the Her- 

 ring Gull acquire its Mature Dress at the Au- 

 tumnal Moult of the Third Year ? 483; Do not 

 Rooks, in building their Nests, appropriate 

 any old Nests which have remained during a 

 former Year ? 483. 548 ; What is the most ef- 

 fectual Method of preventing the House Mar- 

 tin from building in particular Spots ? 484 ; 

 Is not the Sylvia hippolais indigenous ? 485 ; 

 Is the Redstart known to feed upon the Hive 

 Bee ? 486 ; Notice of Exotic Localities of the 

 Glowworm, 487 ; Do Female Wasps disgorge 

 the Food they distribute to their Young in 

 the Grub state ? 488 ; Whence is the Calca- 



reous Spar derived which is found in lire 

 Argillaceous Nodules of Septaria ? 491 ; An 

 Enquiry for the Cause of the Difference in 

 Temperature of River and SpringWater, 491 ; 

 Is any Species of Bat known to fly about in 

 the Daytime ? 548 ; Sparrows' Nests built in 

 a Rook's Nest, 549 ; The Rook not the only 

 Bird that uses the old Materials in the Con- 

 struction of its Nest, 549 ; What is the best 

 Method of preventing the decomposition of 

 the Sheppey Fossils ? 551. 



RETROSPECTIVE CRITISC1SM. 



On the Animals designated in the Scriptures, 

 by the Names of Leviathan and Behemoth, 

 47 ; Metamorphoses in , and Habits of, Crusta- 

 ceous Animals, 48 ; Phyllos5ma ; Mr. Lukis 

 proposed the Epithet sarniense, to designate 

 the Species that is described by him in p. 459 

 — 462 ; .a correction of two errors in the de- 

 scription, 48 : The Superstition connected 

 with the Horseshoe, 157 ; Dr. Turton's 

 Origines Zoologicae, 158. 382 ; On the Robin 

 and Dipper, and rumped, and rumpless, 

 Birds, 158 ; Touching the Question whether 

 Birds oil their Plumage, or not, 159; Cause 

 of the Colours of the Swiss Rivers, 209 ; 

 The Fossil Shell described in p. 103—105. 

 is not a Species of Cbnia, 209; Flinty Sub- 

 stances found in the Ashes of Burnt Hay- 

 ricks, 210 ; Mr. C. T.Wood's Remarks on the 

 extravagant Price of Works on Subjects of 

 Natural History, 265. 640 ; Office of the 

 Gland upon the Rump of Birds, 266. 824 ; 

 Mr. Douglas the Naturalist, the Date of the 

 Death of, 322 ; Mr. Ryland's Remarks on 

 the Quinary System, Correction to, 322 ; On 

 the Habits. of the Water Ousel, with a few 

 Remarks on the Oil Gland in Birds, 323 ; 

 Feathers in the Gizzard of the larger Species 

 of Grebe, and why ? 326 ; Dabchick, lie- 

 marks on, 326; The Purre's Breeding at 

 Martin Mere, Lancashire, 326 ; Bonito taken 

 in the Frith of Clyde in July 1832, 327 ; 

 Why do Birds sing ? 432 ; Remarks on the 

 recent Controversy between C. Waterloo, 

 Esq., andthe Rev.F. O. Morris, 491. 610 ; It 

 may be that it is not the Ibis that is the 

 the Type of the Figure of a Bird in the Coat 

 of Arms of the Town of Liverpool, 492 ; The 

 glaucous Boat Fly, its imputed inflicting a 

 Wound from which Pain ensues disputed, 

 492.553; The .Narcissus noticed in VIII. 

 118., as being the A^arcissus moschatus, and 

 found wild, is not this Kind, 494 ; Printing 

 Greek Words not in Greek Characters, 494 ; 

 Dark-legged Pettychaps ; the Migration of 

 this Species doubted by Mr. N. Wood, 551 : 

 Migration of Hawks, 553 ; Canary losing its 

 Voice,553; Ophiura, figured at p. 427., its Spe- 

 cific Name, 554; Is Man distinct, or not, from 

 other Beings, 610 ; Do Animals hybridise by 

 Choice, orwithout Compulsion ? 615 ; Indige- 

 nousNature of Papilio Fodalirius, 643; Scoly- 

 tus destructor attacks healthy Trees, 644 ; 

 Nature of Mineral Veins, 645; The Black- 

 chin Glebe is merely the little Glebe, 647 ; 

 Comments on Mr. Blyth's remarks on spe- 

 cific Distinctions, 647 ; Sparrows taking 

 Possession of the Nests of Swallows, 648. , 

 HINTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS. 



Proposals for the Publication of a W r ork on 

 the Nests of British Birds, 212 : Remarks on 

 the extravagant Price of Works an Natural 

 History, 213. 



OBITUARY. 

 Rev. George Reading Leathes, A. M., 164; 

 William Turton, M.D, 220; H. H. Good- 

 hall, Esq., F.G.S.,220; Thos. Purton, Esq., 

 606. 



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Islington Literary and Scientific Institution, 



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