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GENERAL INDEX. 



ations on geology, 442. 457 ; chalk in Belgium, 

 460 ; criticism on Mr. Moggridge's account 

 of a fossil stag's horn found in, and of a sub- 

 sidence in, the chalk at Lower Meudon, near 

 Paris, 180 j lava of Niedermennig, 460 ; lime- 

 stone from the Meuse, the brittle consistence 

 of, 76 ; limestone of the neighbourhood of 

 Cork, Ireland, 125. 475 ; the red sandstone 

 along the Meuse is merely the rubbish cast 

 up from below the limestone, 368 ; pitchstone, 

 localities of, 192 ; pyrites, hepatic or radiated, 

 facts on, 480 ; native sulphur in Northumber- 

 land, 462 ; volcanoes, active, history and geo- 

 graphical position of, 344 ; notices of nume- 

 rous volcanic emanations, 289—308. See also 

 Crinoideal remains, Fossils, and Rocks. 



Glse v a rubigfnea, a notice of, 541. 



Glaucus tetrapterygius Rang, figured, 318 ; 

 described, 319 ; G. hexapterygius figured, 

 237. 319 ; described, 237. 



Gnats, congregations of, mistaken for clouds, 

 544 ; a column on the wing, 545 ; a gnat fight- 

 ing its own shadow, 545. 



Gonepteryx, see Butterflies. 



Grayling, a query and facts on the, 189. 



Grebe, feathers always found in the stomach of 

 the, 519 ; dabchick, a, choked in endeavour- 

 ing to swallow a bullhead fish, 520 ; a fact on 

 the little grebe, 194. 



Greenfinch of Pennsylvania, 102 ; of what spe- 

 cies is it ? 384. 



Grosbeak, see Hawfinch. 



Gull, sea, the familiar ind playful habits of, 146, 

 147; the black-headed gull (Larus ridibun- 

 dus), notes on, 450 : notes on the great black, 

 backed gull (Larus marinus), 453 ; mention 

 of four species of gull, 452 ; the kittiwake 

 gull, a query on, 28. 279 ; the great grey sea- 

 mews or gulls mentioned by Rusticus of Go- 

 dalming, in p. 27., are of the species Larus 

 glaucus, 111. 171. 278. 



Hail storm, a terrific, at Lancaster, 368. 



Hare, a, facts on, 194; on another, 204; post- 

 humous hares, 365 ; the hare of Ireland is 

 distinct in species from the hare of England, 

 268. 



Hawfinch or grosbeak, individuals of, shot and 

 seen, 81. 454. 520, 521. 



Hawk, kestrel, fact on, 162. 



Hawking, facts relative to, 108. 



Haworth, Adrian Hardy, the late, a record of 

 his death, 562. 



Hedge sparrow, fungose excrescences occur 

 upon the bill and legs of the, 153. 



Heron, acts of fishing by the, 515 ; twenty-three 

 herons seen standing together, 452. 



Hoopoes, two, killed near Harwich, 150. 



Hurricane at Thorndon Park, Essex, described, 

 103. 



Hydrobius lateralis is an American species, 88. 



Hypercompa dominula, a singular variety of, 



Ice-storm in America described, an, 99. 



Jchneumonidae, characteristics of certain groups 

 and species of, 121. 418. 495 ; facts and re- 

 marks on the carnivorous habits of Pimpla 

 stercorator, 414 ; a notice of Sphdx sabulosa, 

 477. 



Imber diver, shot, 114., and Vol. V. p. 284. 



Insects: Mr. Westwood's enumeration of the 

 probable number of the species of insects in 

 the world, 116. 279. 380; his characteristics of 

 groups and species of Chalcididae and Proc- 

 totrtipidas, 121. 418. 495; of the genus, in 

 Cimicidae, Aphelocheirus Westw., 229 ; of the 

 genus and species, in Cynipidae, Allotria 

 JVesttv. victrix Westw., 494, 495 ; of the spe- 

 cies, in Ocadidae, Delphax Lat. saccharivora 

 Westw. the cane fly of Grenada, 413 ; facts 

 on the cuckoo-spit insect (Aphruphora spu- 

 maria), 410 ; corrective notices, by Mr. Dale, 

 in relation to the history of various insects, 

 377 ; species observed in Berwickshire, 16 ; 

 in Cumberland, 199 ; coleopterous and lepi- 

 dopterous, taken near Manchester, 156. For 

 additional indications of notices of insects, 



see Butterflies, Moths, Cicindela, Timarcha ; 

 a device for entrapping insects, 154 ; a device 

 for securing captured insects, 155 ; strictures 

 on, 379; a cheap and easily practicable me- 

 thod of providing cases for the reception of 

 preserved insects, 155 ; Mr. Waterton's mode 

 of preserving the colours of dead insects, 90 ; 

 modes of securing preserved specimens of 

 natural objects from the attacks of insects, 

 90. 554. 555. 



Instinct, the impulses of, never completely ob- 

 literated by domestication, 68. 



Ibne thoracicus Lat., information on, 94. 



Pris persica L., on the scent of the flowers of,280. 



Ivy, and other twining shrubs, their effects de- 

 corative and injurious on the trees they en- 

 twine, 328—331. 



Jackdaw, notices of the habits of, 162. 394. 396. 

 516. 



Kingfisher, a locality for the, 150. 



Kite, the, is a fishing bird, 139. 



Kittiwake, the, a query on, and the diagnostic 

 of, 279. 



Laburnum, poisonous properties of the seeds of, 

 74 ; the green legumes of, boiled, have been 

 eaten as sauce without causing injury, 176. 



Lava of Niedermennig, employed for millstones 

 by the Romans, found in fragments in Eng- 

 land, 460. 



Llmax, see Molluscous animals. 



Limestone, see Geology. 



Lolig6psis, a clew to information on species of, 

 502. 



L6xia philipplna L., its characters, habits, and 

 pendulous nests, 219. 



Luminous appearance on the ears of a horse, 

 the, is electrical, 172. 



Luzula (Luciola Smith) spicata, a habitat of, 

 368. 



Magpie, its mandibles sometimes decussate, 

 517 ; exotic species of, now referred to the 

 genus Dendrocftta Gould, 504. 



Marine animals, see Animals, marine. 



Marten, on the food and habits of the, 203. 



Martin, facts on the, 70. 72. 153. 456. 



Meteorology : meteoric stones, see Aerolites ; 

 meteoric phenomena, vicissitudes in the 

 seasons, and prevalent disorders, contem- 

 poraneous, and in supposed connection, with 

 volcanic emanations, 289 ; a commencing 

 change in the condition of the atmosphere 

 produces a ringing in the ears when the 

 auricular nerve is diseased, and so foretells 

 approaching weather, 93. 185 ; a meteor seen 

 from Norwich, 463 ; a meteor seen from 

 Bury St. Edmunds, 177 ; notice of a lunar 

 rainbow, 463; a terrific hail-storm at Lan- 

 caster, 368; notes on the weather at Phi- 

 lipsburg, Pennsylvania, and on its influence 

 on certain animals and plants there, 97 ; Mr. 

 Spence on the weather at Florence, 252; 

 some of the Swiss peasants determine the 

 commencement of the spring by the appear- 

 ance and conduct of the bears, 510 ; mildness, 

 in Britain, of the winter of 1832-33, 157 ; re- 

 marks on the spring of 1833, 488; vernal 

 appearances in the neighbourhood of Godal- 

 ming, in 1833, 198 ; the weather in a part of 

 Cumberland, in May, 1832, 198 ; mildness of 

 the winter in 1832-33, 157 ; magnifying power 

 of a dense atmosphere, 183. 



Mignonettes, structure of the flowers of the, 

 441. 560. 



Migration of birds and other animals, philoso- 

 phical speculations on, 4. 82. 



Mistletoe, a new view of the mode of repro- 

 duction in the, 499. 



Mocking bird, the, of Britain, is Curruca sali. 

 caria Flem., 279. 



Molluscous animals, the anatomy and functions 

 of their organs of respiration, 235 ; strictures 

 on the reputed means by which the burrow- 

 ing Mollusca effect ingress into rocks and 

 stones under water, 401. 

 Gastrocha2 x na Pholadia, on the habits of, 

 403. 



