ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



• A Naturalist's Ramble to the Orcades,' 

 490 



Acarus, an, and its apamic reproduction, 

 a short description of, 236 



Albinos, 454 



Alosa communis. 349 



Anastetha raripila, 464 



Angel-fish, 509 



Ants, white, ravages of, 527 



Ardea cinerea, 15 

 „ Nycticorax, id. 

 „ purpurea, id. 



ArfijnnisLathonia in the Isle of Wight, 6 



Arthionomalus crussicornis, Parfill, de- 

 scription of, 7 



Ariicevus Bostockii, 321 

 „ Odewalinii, id. 



Aiisonia Cuvieri captured off Falmouth, 

 601 



Auk, great, on Lundy Island, 100; little, 

 164,213; at l.iskeard, 101 



" Bacca-box " at Macduff, near Banff, 312 



Badger at Melton, 152 



Ball, remarkable, found in Ireland, 385 ; 

 of cow's hair, 436 



Barnacle in a composite candle, 458 



Bee-eater near Bristol, 271 ; in Wiltshire, 

 346 ; in Jersey, 523 



Bird, colossal, 97 



Birds, water, breeding-place of in South- 

 ern India, 11 ; migration of, 40, 88 ; of 

 Australia, 41 ; a list of, observed in the 

 two adjoining parishes of Dunipace and 

 Larbert, in Stirlingshire, 67; destruc- 

 tion of by telegraph-wires, 94 ; at sea, 

 95; oceanic, 114 ; observed at Rain- 

 bam, Kent, during the summer and 

 autumn of 1865, 118; list of, observed 

 in Pern i)rokesli ire, 132; sea, at Mala- 

 hide, 145 ; British, varieties of eggs of, 

 146 ; food, use and beauty of, 158 ; mi- 

 gratory and wandering, of the County 

 Dublin, 220, 300 ; a list of, observed at 

 Sealkote, in the Pnnjaub, 284 : dates 

 of the singing of, for the spring of 1866, 

 295 ; purple colour on the breasts of, 

 299 ; of Shakespeare, 353, 393, 465 ; 

 British, Dictionary of, 372, 495; of 

 Arran, 433; list of observed during a 

 six weeks' summer visit to the Channel 

 Islands, exclusive of Jersey, 447; sea, 



nesting-place of at Scrabster, 492 ; rare, 

 near Kingsbridge, 526 



' Birds of Aliddlesex: a Contribution to 

 the Natural History of the County,' 

 485 



Bittern, 70, 81,442; American, in Kent, 

 145 ; little, at Scilly, 31 1 ; at Colches- 

 ter, 517 



Blackbird, 75, 119, 134, 140, 169, 295, 

 338, 417, 443; singing in January, 

 143; nesting at Dalkey, 188; ciiriou 

 position of nest of, 308 ; variety of, 

 389 



Blackcap, 134, 223; in January, 143 



Bombycilla garrula in Wiltshire, 227 



Borer,* 509 



Brambling, 65, 69, 166, 263 



Bream, Ray's, near Liskeard, 349 



Bullfinch, 482 



Bunting, snow, 65, 76, 88, 90, 94, 214, 

 293 ; at Beachy Head, 522 ; common, 

 66, 137, 224, 264; yellow, 137; cirl, 

 170; ortolan, in Kent, 270; black- 

 headed, 299; little, 495 



Bustard, gular pouch of, 144, 189 j 

 little, 450 



Buzzard, roughlegged, 30; in South 

 Yorkshire, 31 ; in Suffolk, 142; com- 

 mon, 167,412,437; in Suffolk, 227; 

 honey, in North Devon, 308 ; in Suf- 

 folk, 346; at Scilly, 522 



Calamary on the coast of Norfolk, 312 



Calamobius and Hippopsis, note on, 4 



Cantharocnemis Livingstonii, HI 



Cantharoclenus Burchellii, 112 



Cantharoplatys Felderi, id. 



Caradrina blanda, descriiition of the larva 

 of, 7 



Carcbarias glaucus, 509 

 „ vulpes, id. 



Carcinas msenas, how long will it remain 

 alive without immersion ? 7 



Cat, curious capture of a kestrel by a, 31 



Cattle, wild white, 242, 512 



Chaffinch, 137, 512; in a hen's nest, 269 



' Charles Waterton, his Home, Habits 

 and Handiwork,' 425 



Chiffchaff, 120, 135,219,338; and willow 

 warbler, nests of, 336 



Chough, 423, 43S; Cornish, at East 

 Looe, 32 



