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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Alston, Edwaed R. 



Notes on the quadrupeds of Lanark- 

 shire, 667; Greenland seal at Ryde, 

 754 ; On the history and habits of 

 the roe-deer, 778 ; Pilot whales in 

 the Firth of Forth, 801 ; Notes on 

 the folk-lore of Zoology, 881, 921, 

 976,1005; The "wide-awake" tern, 

 1018 



Angus, W. Craibe 



Honey buzzard in Aberdeenshire, 554 ; 

 Linnets gregarious in summer, and 

 why, 634; Red legged partridge in 

 Aberdeenshire, 635 



ASHMEAD, G. B. 



Little bittern near Henley, 829 

 Austin, Henry 



Dunlins at Kingsbury Reservoir, 829 

 Barrington, R. M. 



Arrival of summer visitants in County 

 Wicklow, 754; Food of the wood 

 pigeon, 758 ; Rats eating grapes, 

 987 

 Beckwith, R. G. 



Magpie with yellow beak, 826 

 Beckwith, William 



Firecrested wren, Richard's pipit and 

 velvet scoter in Shropshire, 633 

 Bell, Thomas, F.L.S. 



Hawfinch breeding at Selborne, 913; 

 Hawfinch at Selborne, 949 

 Blackmobe, Henry 



Bohemian waxvving in Wiltshire, 704 ; 

 Canada goose at Coombe Bissett, 

 708 

 Blake-Knox, Harry 

 A natural history of the kittiwake gull, 

 548; A natural history of the 

 common gull, 625; Ornithological 

 notes from the County Dublin, 678 

 Bond, Frederick, F.L.S. 



Water pipit at Brighton, Wood lark at 

 Brighton, 792 

 Boulton, W. W. 



Ornithological notes from Beverley, 

 East Yorkshire, 540 



Bree, C. R., M.D. 



What gives a bird a claim to be classed 

 as British ? 789; Habits of the rock 

 pipit, 792; Singular position of a 

 cuckoo's egg, 914 



Briggs, J. J. 



Little grebe affected by the cold, 

 636 



Briggs, T. R. Archer 



A young cuckoo in the nest of a 

 meadow pipit, 914 



Brown, John A. Harvie 



Ornithological notes from Falkirk, 554 ; 

 Gadwall shot on the Tay, Bald- 

 headed eagle in Achill,562 ; Rabbits 

 breeding in January, Roughlegged 

 buzzard in Dumfriesshire, 604 ; 

 Waxwings in Peebleshire, 606 ; Or- 

 nithological notes from Stirlingshire, 

 608, 637; Kite in Stirlingshire, 632; 

 Goosander and other birds on the 

 Firth, 636 ; Magpie with a yellow 

 beak, 706, 877; Extracts from a 

 journal of a nesting tour in Suther-- 

 land in 1867,851; Varieties of birds' 

 eggs, 875 ; Scaup duck breeding in 

 Britain, 878; Collected observations 

 on the birds of Stirlingshire, 884, 

 989; Varieties in birds' eggs, 911 ; 

 Albino titmouse, 913; Curlew sand- 

 piper, &c, at Grangemouth, 950 ; 

 Notes on Newman's ' Birdsnestiug/ 

 987; India-rubber boat, 1014 



Buller, Walter, F.L.S. 



Notes on the genus Deinacrida in New 

 Zealand, 849 ; Sparrows wanted in 

 New Zealand, 913 



Buxton, E. C. 



Ianthina Iragilis in Dingle Bay, 954 



Buxton, T. F. 



Storm petrel at Cromer, 992 



Clark-Kexxedy, Alexander 



Snow bunting at Hunstanton, 559 ; 

 Waxwings near Woolwich, 561 ; 

 White linnets, 606; Plumage of the 

 oystercatcher, 607; Notes on the 



