GENERAL INDEX. 



Moorhen, habits of, 381. 601. 730, 7S1. 



Moths, remarks on, 60. 687. 



Mountains seen through a haze which the rays 

 of the sun can scarcely pierce, 356. 494. 



Mouse. See Campagnol. 



Mundick, the ore so called, of Cornwall, query 

 on, 110. 



Miisca larvkrum, while in the body of A'rctia 

 Cdja, preyed on by parasitic Pter6mali, 252. 



Necr6phagus spinipes, notes on, 562. 



A'iepenthes distillatbria, a notice of, 492. 



Nightingale, Mr. Dovaston's remarks on the 

 nightingale and blackcap, 425 ; a notice on 

 the nightingale, P>91. 724 ; was heard singing 

 on the 12th Dec, in cither 1823 or 1824, 654. 



Nightjar, or fern owl, some of the habits of, 602. 

 674. 726. 



Nomenclature, changes in, deter from prose- 

 cuting natural history, 194. 502. 



Norfolk, origin of the crag stratum of, 544. 



Nottinghamshire, rare plants in, 549. 



Nuthatch, some of the habits of, 488. 502. 591. 

 737. 



Oak trees in Surrey, the leaves of, ravaged by 

 the caterpillars of the Tortrix viridkna, 669. 



Obsequy by and for John F. M. Dovaston, Esq., 

 A.M., 111. 



Omens and superstitions connected with objects 

 in natural history, 209; with the barn owl, 

 Aldco flammeus Fleming, 9. 



Orang-utan, Borneo, female, and the male 

 chimpanzee, habits and manners of, 305. 



Ornithological reasonings, 276. 



Ornithoscope described, 83. 205. 39& 



Owl, habits of the barn, 9 ; its benefits to man, 

 13. 727; habits of the Strix Sc6ps in Italy, 

 654. 



Papili6nidae occurring in the vicinity of Dover, 

 330; in Weaver's museum at Birmingham, 

 749. See also Butterfly and Insect. 



Paraguay tea tree figured and described, 8. 



Parasites upon the cabbage caterpillars, 107. 

 301. 495 ; parasitic Pteromali, 252. 



Pkris quadrifblia, variations in, 429. 755. 



Partridge, common, breeds not in captivity, 

 383. 



Peahen, a slovenly mother, 383. 



Petals, lamellate, instances of, 399. 



Petrel, forked-tail, taken at Chipping Norton, 

 Oxon, 282 ; in Herefordshire, and the neigh- 

 bouring counties, 283 ; at Birmingham, 283. 

 733 ; in various places, 588. 733 ; remarks on 

 the British species of petrel, 589. 



Peziza coccinea, a gigantic specimen of, 538. 



Phalarope, grey, contributions to the history of, 

 and inland captures of, 282, 283. 379. 589. 729. 



Pheasant, tame, assiduous in rearing its young, 

 383; young pheasants killed by parasitical 

 worms in their windpipe, 208; pheasants 

 hatched under white domestic hens have 

 more or fewer of white feathers, 494. 



Pigeon, domestic habits of, 285 ; whirls of the 

 tumbler pigeon, 203 ; mode of decoying wild 

 pigeons in New England, 452. 



Pilchard and herring distinguished, 59. 



Pimpernel, red, ^nagallis arvensis, and blue, 

 A. caeriilea, not of one species, 493. 



PlanJiria corn&ta, 344; correction respecting, 

 429. 678. 



Plants native to the Polynesian Islands, notices 

 on the, 92 : on the dispersion and distribution 

 of plants, 522 ; their agency in breaking down 

 and clothing rocks, 552 ; changes in the habi- 

 tats of wild plants, 196, 197 ; relative scarcity 

 of certain British species of, 197 ; on establish- 

 ing exotic species in British localities, 197 ; 

 rare plants growing in the neighbourhood of 

 Doncaster, 556 ; in Yorkshire, 558 ; in Not- 

 tinghamshire, 549 ; inTeesdale,564; at Tun- 

 bridge Wells, 543. 



Plover ; the Kentish plover argued to be not a 

 variety of the ring plover or dulwilly, but a 

 distinct species, 80. 

 Polecat, references respecting the, 297. 

 Polynesian Islands, notices on the native plants 

 of the. 92. 



775 



Poly6mmatus Arglolus, the azure blue butterfly, 

 is double-brooded, 109. 205 420. 496. 768. ; no- 

 tice on the caterpillar of, 490 j on the wings 

 of, 496. 



Poultry hatched by the common buzzard in 

 captivity, 383, 384 ; poultry very fond of the 

 fruit of Capsicum, 473. 



Praniza fusc^ta, figured and described, 521. 



Pter6mali, parasitic, on M6scalarv^rum within 

 the body of A'rctia Cdja, 252. 



Rail, the land. See Corncrake. 



Rail, the water, 299 ; is the water rail migra. 

 tory, ornot? 397.732; a white water rail, 

 384 ; food of the water rail, 732. 



Ram of Fezzan, 450. 



Reed warbler, a notice of the, 309. 



Renfrewshire, native animals of, 571. 



Rennie, Professor, his remarks appertaining ta 

 the Swainsonian controversy, [110]. 



Rocks, their influence on native vegetables, 

 195. 



Rook, the C6rvus frugilegus L., remarks on 

 the nakedness of the forehead and base of the 

 bill of, 241 ; on the supposed pouch or bag at 

 the base of the bill of, 512. 



i^ubus Chamsembrus and drcticus, and their 

 fruit, remarks on, 54. 



Russian patronage of natural history, 6; longe- 

 vity in Russia, 447. 



Sandal-wood tree, and some of the botanical pro- 

 ductions of the Sandwich Islands, 255. 



Sandpiper; identity of the green sandpiper and 

 the wood sandpiper, 81 ; facts on the com. 

 mon, 724. 



Sap, ascent of the, 196. 



Sarracenias, structure of the leaves in, 492. 



5carabae"'us Ateuchus sacer, 450 ; aurktus and 

 horticola, 596, 597. 



5colop^ndra el^ctrica, incidental notices of, 

 368. 400. 



Scorpions, information regarding, 482. 



Scoter duck (Oidfemia nigra Flem,), notes on 

 the, 82, 733. 



Scotland, natural history in, 569 ; in various 

 counties, 569; in Forfarshire, 573; in Ren- 

 frewshire, 571 ; monthly calendar of weather 

 in Perthshire during October and Novem- 

 ber, 1831, 97 ; the blue bells of Scotland are 

 the flowers of Campanula rotundifblia, 493. 



Sea, luminousness of, 302 ; the lashing of the 

 beach by the waves of, described, 5'i. 



Sedge bird, its mocking powers, 053 ; other facts 

 on, 654. 



Sheep, the rot in, 98. 202. 715. 



Sheldrake, and lorig-legged whistling ducks, 203. 



Shrew, the oared (Sbrex remifer Yarrell), de- 

 scribed, 598 ; notes on the water shrew, Sbrex 

 fudiens, 79 ; on the common shrew, S. ara- 

 neus, 79 ; structure of the ears of the water 

 shrew, 298. 



Shrike (Lanius excubitor L.), notice on the 

 habits of, 569. 



Silkworm, facts on the, 652. 



5imia synd&ctyla, or ungka ape of Sumatra, 

 some account of, 131 — 142. 



Siren ZacertlnaZ., figured and described, 663. 



Skunk weasel, Fiv^rra mephitis, notes on, 503. 



Skunk weed, notes on the, 563. 



Slug, Sowerby's, some account of, 693. 



Smew, the, a figure of its windpipe, 766. 



Snails, mites parasitic on, 697 ; H^lix ruf^scens 

 and hispida noticed, 697. 



Snake, common, its habits, 385. 387. 



Snow, on the crystallisation of, 90. 



South Sea Islands, sketch of the botany of the, 

 483. 



Sparrow, Senegal, or cut-throat, a species of 

 i^ringilla, 397 ; cruel love of a female of the 

 house sparrow, 277. 



Sphinx i>espif6rmis,an essay, criticised, 117; and 

 by Mr. Stephens, 393. 



Spider, the common garden (Epelra diadfema), 

 facts on its habits, 689. 747 ; on other spiders, 

 747, 748 ; the thread of spiders, 748. 



Spring of 1832 compared with that of 1831, 



