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Beee, C. R., M.D., F.L.S. 



Preservation of organic matter by 

 exclusion of atmospberic air, 435; 

 Late song of the nightingale, 454 ; 

 Little bittern at Colchester, 

 517 

 Brooking-Rowe, J., F.L.S. 



Large snipe, 97; Forktailed petrel at 

 Plymouth, 102 

 Brown, J. A. Harvie 



A list of birds observed in the two 

 adjoining parishes of Dunipace and 

 Larbert, in Stirlingshire, 67; Merlin 

 killed by flying against a window, 

 142; Barn owl hunting in daylight, 

 Great gray shrike in Stirlingshire, 

 Blackbirds singing in January, 

 Rooks building in January, 143; 

 Varieties of British birds' eggs, 

 146 ; Curious position of a black- 

 bird's nest, 308; Rats or mice suck- 

 ing eggs, 385 ; Nest of tiie siskin, 

 622: Rnff near Grangemouth, 524 ; 

 Nesting of the blackthroaled diver, 

 525 

 Brown, William 



A short account of a visit to the Fame 

 Islands during the nesting season of 

 1865, 483 

 Buckler, William 



Description of the larva of Hipparchia 

 Semele, with notes on its habits, 

 food, &c., 317 



BULLMOEE, W. K., M.D. 



On the occurrence of Barlram's sand- 

 piper near Falmouth, 37 

 Chipchase, Charles 



Ornithological notes from Barnard 

 Castle, 347 

 Clifton, Lord 



Ortolan bunting in Kent, 270 : Hobby 

 near Rochester, Stock dove breeding 

 in Kent, 497 

 Clogg, Stephen 



Cornish chough at East Looe, 32 ; 

 Martins in December, White martin, 

 33; Martins at Christmas, 96; 

 Change of plumage in great northern 

 diver, 99 ; Little auk at Li.skeard, 

 101; Is it spider or mouse? 105, 

 349, 458; Arrival of Hirundines at 

 Looe, Cornwall, 309; Ray's bream 

 near Liskeard, 349 

 Cooper, William 

 Birds at sea, 95 

 CoRDEAUx, John 



Ornithological notes from Flam- 

 borough, 21 ; Ornithological notes 

 from Noith Lincolnshire, 73, 129, 



215, 258, 293 ; Rats climbing trees, 

 207 ; Greenland shark on the 

 Dogger Bank, 230; Pine marten iu 

 Lincolnshire, 242; Note on the 

 shrew, 327; Ornithological notes 

 from North Wales, 436 

 Cornish, Thomas 



On the occurrence of the spinous 

 shark in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, 

 102,113; Whiting taken in mack- 

 erel drift-nets, 'Tiidpole fish in 

 Mount's Bay, Habits of the common 

 crab, 272; Xantho florida in 

 Mount's Bay, 284; Muiler's top- 

 knot and stieaked gurnard at Pen- 

 zance, 311; Surmullet, &c., taken 

 at Penzance, Trifurcated hake and 

 smooth serranus at Penz:ince, Fresh 

 water eels in salt water, 348; Curious 

 scene at sea, 388; Pisa Gibbsii and 

 sun-fish at Penzance, 390 ; Barnacle 

 in a composite candle, Xantho florida 

 and X. rivulosa at Penzance, 458; 

 Ausonia Cuvieri captured ofi" Fal- 

 mouth, 601; Rare crabs at Pen- 

 zance, 627 

 Dix, Thomas 



A list of birds observed in Pembroke- 

 shire, 132 

 Doubleday, Henry 



Spider or mouse, 387 ; Variety ? of the 

 barn owl at Epping, Late stay of the 

 lesser whitethroat, 522 ; Late stay 

 of martins, 623 ; Shearwater at 

 Epping, 626 

 DOCGLAS, J. W. 



Gonocerus venator at Box Hill, 106 

 DuTTON, John 



Raven nesting in a cucumber-frame, 

 32; Great gray shrike at Pevensey, 

 96 ; Purple sandpiper at East- 

 bourne, 145; Gray phalarope at 

 Eastbourne, 499, 525 ; Snow bunt- 

 ing at Beachy Head, 522 

 Eagle, Francis 



Lizards devouring their own species, 

 627 

 Edward, Thomas 



Redwinged starling in Scotland, 310 ; 

 Bloch's gurnard in the Moray Filth, 

 at Banfi", The "bacca-box" at 

 Macdufi", near Banff", 312; AUice 

 shad on the Aberdeenshire coast, 

 349 

 Flower, W. H., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



Gular pouch of the bustard, 189 

 pRosr, W. M. 



Argynnis Lathonia in the Isle of 

 Wight, 6 



