INDEX. 



Acherontia atropos, 45. 



Adventure of a Cat and Kitten, 13. 



Amateur Naturalists, 125. 



Ants, 166. 



Animals, Attachment of, 169. 



Instinct of, 234. 



Arrival of Hirundines, 36. 



Bat, 187. 



Bee, Myrtle, U6. 



Bib, 81. 



-Birds, A List of Sizes of Cases for, 255, 272. 

 , Breeding and Rearing of in Confine- 

 ment, 71. 



Capture of at Brighton, 216. 



Flight of, 146. 



Nests, Rare, 193. 



. — of Nova Scotia, 268. 



of Spring, 151. 



Rare, 93. 



■ Retreating, 175. 



Scarcity of, 46, 92, 116, 144, 196. 



The Voices of, 73. 



The Youth of, 170.. 



Winter, 46. 



■ Bittern, Common, 14, 116, 186. 



Little, 93. 



Black-headed Gull, 259. 

 Blackstart, 92. 



Blue Tit, 187. 



Boletus squamosus, 45. 



Botanical Notes, 204. 



Botany, 238, 261. 



Braemar, A Visit to, 200, 222, 243. 

 , Broad-billed Sandpiper, 259. 



Bryology of Ludhill Gill, Notes on the, 133. 

 •Bunting, Snow, 139. 



Bustard, Great, 91, 116. 

 ■ Little, 91. 



Butterflies and Moths, English Names for, 93. 



Butterfly, Music hath Charms for the, 44. 



Caernarvonshire, Three Days in, 39, 61, 82. 

 Callimorpha Hera, 94, 215. 

 Carabus intricatus. 187, 260. 

 Cat, Domestic, 42, 163. 

 Chimney Swallow, Lateness of the, 42. 

 Chough, 67, 140. 

 Christmas Novelty, 94. 

 Chrysalides, Location of, 191, 288. 

 Chrysalis, Early appearance of a, 261. 

 Common Birds, Characteristics of, 97. 

 Couchologizing on the Islet of Herm, 77, HI. 

 Cook Wrasse, 81. 

 Courser, Cream-coloured, 286. 

 Crake, Spotted, 92, 116. 

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^rossbill, Common, 116, 186. 

 Cryptogamous Flora, List of, 136. 

 Cuckoo, Notes on the, 51. 

 Curious Hatch of a Hen, 20. 



Dabchick, 168. 

 Dipper, 140, 186, 

 Dog, Anecdote of a, 234. 

 ^Dotterel, 186. 

 Down the River, 33, 99. 

 Drvpta, Note on the Habits of, 261. 

 Duck, Eider, 116. 



Eagles, 91, 163. 



,Eggs, Method of blowing, 167. 

 Emeu, Trachea of the, 153. 

 English Names for Butterflies and Moths, 93. 

 Entomological Society of London, 22. 

 Entomology, 238. 

 Epiphytes, A List of, 284. 

 Exchange, 238, 261. 

 Extracts from Correspondence, 121, 219. 

 from my Note-book, 36. 



•Falcon, Peregrine, 115, 185. 



Falkland Islands, Three Days in the, 209. 



Fieldfare, 186. 

 ^Finch, Moimtain, 21. 



Fish and Wildfowl, Notes on, 21. 



Flycatcher, 241. 



Frog, Common, 141. 



Gall Nut, 166. 

 Geological Excursion, 1, 25. 

 Golden-Eye, 140. 

 •Goshawk, 116. 



Grebe, Great-crested, 168, 216. 

 Greenshanks, 259. 

 Gull, Black-headed, 259. 

 . Little, 261. 



Hatch of a Hen, Curious. 20. 

 Havoc among- Sparrows, 15. 

 Hawk, Unknown, 68. 



An Extraordinary, 20. 



Bill of the New, 23. 



The Great Unknown, 95, 141. 



Hints to Insect Collectors, 107, 128. 



Hips and Haws, 72, 118. 



Hirundines, Arrival of the, 36. 



Hoopoe, 236. 



Horse, Anecdote of the, 90. 



House Swallow, 183. 



Hunting-Season, Beginning of the, 137. 



Ichthyology of Banffshire, 229, 

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