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blackbird, 389 ; of the swallow, 4 5o; of 

 the perch, 510; of the barn owl, 622 

 Varieties of British birds' eggs, 146 

 Visitors, occasional and accidental, 



453 



Vole, bank, 9, 159,240, 511 ; at Lytharn, 

 200; curious variety of, near Norwich, 

 152; water, at Earlham, Norfolk, 



id. 

 Voyage round the World, notes on, 



il4 

 Vulture, 354 

 Waders, 267, 334, 615 

 Wagtail, gray, 120, 136, 264,297, 439; 



pied, 131, 135, 217, 337; while, 



444 

 Wagtails, 120, 420, 514 

 Walney, the Lakes, and the lame 



Islands, a visit to, 178 

 Warbler, sedge, 68, 134; garden, 120, 



134; wood, 136; willow, 135, 166; 



and chiffcbafT, nests of, 336; blue- 



throated, 172, 176, 218. 341, 445; 



blackcap, 299 ; grasshopper, 334 ; 



Darlford, 340; raarsh, 496; ruby- 

 crested, id. ; thrush-like, id. 

 Warblers, migratory, 441, 514 

 Waterhen, purple, near Southampton, 



229 ; claw on the wing of, 300 

 Waxwing, 261 

 Weasel, 159,384,511 



Whcatear, 65, 119, 134, 219,223, 447, 



477 

 Whiff, 508 „, ^^^, 



Whimbrel, 71, 82, 125, 264, 293, 47b; 



!it the Kin<;sbury Reservoir, 271 

 Whinchat nesting i" grass meadows, 



32 

 Whitelhroat, 134, 340; lesser, late stay 



of, 522 

 Whiting taken in mackerel dnft-ntts, 



272 

 Widgeon, 162, 482 

 Wollaston, T. Vernon, « Coleoplera 



Atlantidum,' 163 

 Woodcock, 21, 66, 71, 83, 139, 172, 291, 



513; hard fate of, 271 

 Woodpecker, great spotted, 76, 96, 174, 



217; green, 76, 131, 443; lessrr 



spotted, 76, 266 ; great spotted, variety 



of, 271 

 Wren, 77, 472; willow, 67, 120, 446, 



512; wood, 120, 446; yellow wood, 



338 

 Wrens, willow, distinctions of the, 300 

 Wryneck, 28, 77, 122 

 Xanlho florida in Mount's Bay, 284 ; 



at Penzance, 458 

 „ rivulosa, at Penzance, 468 

 Xema, subfamily, 361 

 Zoological notes from Arran, 432 

 Zoology of Spitzbergen, notes on, 196 



