GENERAL INDEX. 



773 



Chkta, on the process of fructification in the 

 genus, 348. 



CheUfer cancr5\des is parasitic on the common 

 housed y,*754. 



Ch&sias spartiata, broom moth, eats the petals, 

 not herbage, of the common furze, 687. 



Chiasogn&thus Grantw Stephens, figure and 

 description of, 323. 592. 



Chimpanzee male, and female Borneo orang- 

 utan, habits and manners of, 305. 



Chit-Chat, No. I., 497 j the opinion of corre- 

 spondentson, 673. 



Chough of Cornwall, query on its habits, 104. 



Cicclda hcematbdes, five specimens of, captured 

 in the New Forest, Hampshire, 686. 



Cinclus, its etymon and application, 734- 



Ciner Jiria integrifblia, and varieties of it, 88. 



Conventional signs, to express objects in geo- 

 logy and physical geography, 587. 



Corncrake, Rallus C'rex L., notes on its habits, 

 68. 298. 724; its gizzard, 731 ; does the bird 

 breed in the south of England? 732. 



Curnu Ammbnis in Somersetshire, 504. 538. 



Cornwall, rarer si)ecies of fish found in, 15 ; 

 queries on the chough of Cornwall, Pyrrh6.> 

 corax Graculus, 104; queries on the ore called 

 mundickin Cornwall, 110. 



Corvorant, crested, eggs of, 397. 



C6ryhe glandulbsa Johnston, figured and de- 

 scribed, (;31. 



Crabs, land, species in Jamaica, 477. 



Creeper, Ceithia familiaris L., its habits, 204. 

 489. 737, 738. 



Crow, carrion, incubation of, 143. 395. 487. 590. 

 676. 



Cuckoo, parasitical habits of, 62. 277. 278, 674 ; 

 queries and remarks on its habits, 62 ; prefers 

 to lay in the pied wagtail's nest, 277. 



Custard apple, Anbna, countries in which it 

 grows, 761. 



DabChick, a short notice on, 602. 724. 



Dagenham Breach, Essex, notice on, 543. 



Daphne Mexereum, and Laureola, structure of 

 the calyx of, 399. 



Dead Sea, remarks on the formation of, 552. 



Dew, annual quantity deposited in Britain, 396. 



Dipterous insects, the generic characters of the 

 European, translated from Meigen's St/ste- 

 matische Beschreibung, and illustrated by 

 figures, 1.56—162. 



Dodder, greater, directions for cultivating the, 

 506. 



Dog, pointer, eccentricity of appetite in a, 714. 



Donegal, a list of, and remarks on, mammalious 

 animals, and on birds, observed on the north- 

 ern coast of, 578. 



Dove, the ring, or wood pigeon, cannot be do- 

 mesticated, 383 ; habits of the English turtle 



~ dove, 82. 299. 



-Dragon fly, some notice of the habits and trans- 

 formations of, 517. 



Drosera. See Sundew. 



Duck, notes ontheScoter duck, Oidbmianigra 

 Flern., 82 ; its food, 733 ; the long-legged 

 whistling ducks of the West Indies, and the 

 sheldrake, 203 ; prodigious abundance of wild 

 ducks in Chesapeake Bay, 452. 



Dun diver, information and queries on the wind- 

 pipe of, 397. 766. 



Eagle, the white-tailed, breeds in captivity, 278 ; 

 anecdote of a young eagle, 279 ; notice of a 

 great harpy eagle, sent from Mobile, in Flo- 

 rida, to the Zoological Society of London, 452. 



Eels, facts and opinions on their mode of pro- 

 pagation, 313. 744. 



Eggs and birds met with in the Orkney Islands, 



; 415. 675 ; a safe mode of transporting eggs to 

 be hatched, 383 ; remarks on the hatching of 

 eggs, 102. 494 ; by Mr. Waterton, 142 ; eggs 

 containingchicks nottobe successfully hatched 

 if suffered to cool, 101 ; eggs, when covered 

 and moistened, more easily hatched, 102. 494. 



Eggshells, Mr. Waterton on the preservation of, 



for cabinets, 515. 

 Electricity, its pervasive agency in nature, 117 ; 

 it is the cause of fairy rings, 113. 



English counties, natural history in, 538 : Cam- 

 bridgeshire,545; Cumberland, natural nistory 

 in, 128. 558; Durham, 71. 564; Essex, 543; 

 Hampshire, 538 ; Kent, 539 ; Lancashire, .550 j 

 Norfolk, 544; Northumberland, 71. 565; NoU 

 tinghamshire, 549 ; Somersetshire, 538; War, 

 wickshire,546; Westmoreland,128; Yorkshire, 

 553 ; captures of insects in certain English 

 counties, by Mr. Davis, 245 ; by Mr. Dale, 249. 



Entomology. See Insects. 



E'^olis rufibranchi&lis, figured and described, 428. 



Epelra diad^ma, facts on its habits, 689. 747. 



Equinoxes, the geological effects produced by 

 the precession of, 102. 172. 201 ; the effects of 

 the precession to be considered in verifying 



EsqSaux; Lake, 4.^8. '^*ii^ *^ "^^^^fj^ 



European singing-birds in India, .734 .,,.'*^'„.;> \\,^ 

 tairy rings, electricity the cause 6fxn6m, n3,„}V./ 

 Fern owl, habits of the, 602. 674. 726. ' ,?"* 

 Fezzan ram, 450. joli'*^ 



Fieldfare, an instance of its reasoning, 2tq-i(^'/. 

 facts in its history, 593. 596. <v^At, 



Fire fly, possibility of introducing to, and na.tu2:^„ 

 ralising in, Britain, 672. iia„ ^ 



Fishes new to the British Fauna, contained; inj!^, 

 Couch's History of the Fishes of Cornwaff^[, 

 15. 311; corrective notices relative to tl\^^' 

 communication, 393. 741 ; habits of the c^^^a^l^ 

 and mention of another species of fish, Sl^jj" , 

 species of fish which inhabit the waters of .( 

 Wensleydale, 555 ; species which inhabyi., 

 Dagenham Breach, Essex, 543 ; small fishes^'. . 

 are devoured by other insects besides tHfe 

 larvffi of dragon flies, 668 ; fishes feed and 

 discern in sunny weather, 289 ; fishes retain 

 their vitality after being frozen, 651 ; notice 

 on the great gar fish, 453 ; remarks on various 

 British fishes, 58; fossilised fish found in 9^^; 

 stone quarry, near Stratford upon Avon, 549;,/' 

 fishes in the Yore or Ure, 725 ; notices of th^„„i 

 short sunflsh, 315; ofthecommonsunfish,743. . 



Fishing in China, 447. .„.,„, 



Flies, an extraordinary swarm of, 302 ; the blu%.^, ! 

 bottle fly deposits its eggs in the human facc^ ■ 

 482 ; as does the ffi'strus Auminis, 483. .: ,/„: 



Flowers, luminous appearance on, 208. 504. ' ,' .', 



Flycatcher, the pied, its habits, habitat, and 

 period of appearance, 83; other facts on this 

 bird, 569, : , 



Fogs, remarks on' London, 89. 304. 395. 



Forfarshire, remarks during a walk on the coast 

 of, 573. 



Fossil riches of Touraine, 444; fossil stag's horn 

 found in the chalk measures near Meredon, 

 France, 446; fossil fish and ichthyosaurus 

 found in a stone quarry near Stratford upon 

 Avon, 649 ; fossil botany, 650. 



Fraxinella plant, Dict&mnus Fraxindlla, what 

 is the property in it which ignites so readily? 

 760. 



Frog, Rkna. temporkria L., notes on the struc- 

 ture of its tongue, and the probable end of 

 that structure, 84 ; cries of frogs, and other 

 facts on frogs, 490; dead and live frogs con- 

 sumed by leeches, 291 ; the iJana esculenta, 

 the eatable frog, has been found in Forfer- 

 shire: does it occur there now .=> 104. 



Frost, remarks on anchor-frosts, 91. 303. 395. 

 770. 



Fumilria Vaillant« proved a British plant, 88. 



Gallinule, a percher and eatable, 381; other 

 facts on, 601. 750, 731 : the spotted, facts on, 

 73J. 



Geology, contributions to that of Berwickshire, 

 637 ; conventional signs suggested, to express 

 objects in geology, 587 ; geological phenomew 

 na, as affected by the precession of the equi- 

 noxes, 102. 172. 201. 



Goats, caprice of appetite in, 471. 



Gold mines in the United States of America, 

 434. 454. 



Goosander, a figure of its windpipe, 766; of the 

 red-breasted goosander, 766. 



Goose family, a rare kind of the, 79 ; Egyptian 

 geese seen beside the Tweed at Carham, 565. 



