Ascension, Island of, 979 



Astur palumbarius, 762 



Auk, little, 675, 690, 738, 906, 1013 ; in 

 the West of England, 637; at Henley- 

 on-Thames, 710 



Avocet in tbe County Cork, 635 ; near 

 Weymouth, 759 



Badger, 631, 66H ; at Cockcrmoutb, 822 ; 

 Labrador, in Kent, 787 



Badgers, abundance of in Kent, 787 



Bat, 667, 881 ; longeared, 667 



Bats, are blue-bottle flies distasteful to? 

 911 



Bear, sea, death of, 701 ; brown, 883 



Bee-eater at Stapleton, near Bristol, 561 



Bergylt near Hartlepool, 638 



Bird-breeders, a day among at the Point 

 of Air, 924 



Bird, British, what gives a claim to be 

 classed as a? 755, 789; blue, the 

 bonny wee, 823 



Bird's nest, double, 789 



« Birds of Norfolk,' 747 



Birds of Shakespeare, 529, 649 



Birds, rare, in Northamptonshire, 555; 

 power of imitation in, 598 ; list of, 

 noticed in East Fin mark, 692, 761 ; 

 British, blue and while varieties of 

 eggs of, 754; summer, arrival of at 

 Shooter's Hill and neighbourhood, 

 814; list of noticed in West Suther- 

 land, 860; varieties of eggs of, 875, 

 911; of Stirlingshire, collected obser- 

 vations mi the, 884,989; starvation of, 

 911; of Scandinavia, 951 ; piebald and 

 rare, fate of, 959; British, distinguish- 

 ing characters of some nearly-allied 

 species of, 965; varieties of, 987 



Birdsuesting trip to the North of Ireland, 

 609 



Bittern, 595, 732, 820, 900; near 

 Ipswich, 634 ; in Yorkshire, 635 ; little, 

 in Cornwall, 759; near the Lizard, 

 829; near Henley, id. 



Bitterns near Dorchester, 708 



Blackbird, variety of, 633; migration of, 

 683; pied, 686; nest and eggs of, 889 



Blackcap, instance of fearlessness in the, 

 558 



Boar, wild, 979 



Boat, India-rubber, 1014 

 Bombycilla garrula, 764 



Brambliug, cuiious fact counected with 



the, 706 

 Bramblings near Eccleshall, 634; at 

 Henley-on-Thames, 825 ; near Nor- 

 wich, 871 

 Bullfinch, abundance of in Dublin in 

 1866, 685; scarlet (?) in Sussex, 877 



Bunting a bird of Shakespeare, 756 



Bunting, Lapland, in Lancashire, 558 ; 

 at Lewishain, 705 ; snow, at sea, 559; 

 at Hunstanton, id.; near the Humber, 

 691 ; in Noith Lincolnshire, 691 ; on 

 Blackbeath, 705 ; at Eastbourne, 792 ; 

 at Exmouth, 832; in Stirlingshire, 

 892; blackheaded, id.; ortolan, in the 

 Isle of Wight, 912 



Bustard, great, at Horsey, Norfolk, 635 



Buteo lagopus, 761 



Buzzard, honey, 515, 908,912; in Aber- 

 deenshire, 554 : common, 589, 597, 

 866,886,909; at Looe, 948; rough- 

 legged, in Dumfriesshire, 604 



Buzzards in Kent, 948, 989 



Calidris arenaria, 769 



Calosoina Curtisii, 646 



Canaries breeding in January, 705 



Canine fecundity, 910 



Capercallie, 897 



Cat and squirrels, 753 



Cat, wild, 921 



Cattle, wild white, 669 



Cerapterus Macleayii, 646 



Cetacea and seals, 923 



Chaffinch, 591,686,892 



Charadrius helvelicus, 769 



Chiflehaff, 890, 968 



Chough, Cornish, 678; reparation of a 

 maimed beak in the, 1015 



Chrysalides, remarks on the coloration of, 

 1020 



Ciconia nigra, 872 



Ciinbex lateralis, 639 



Cinclus aquaticus, 765 



Cirl and yellow bunting, 971 



Clark, Rev. Hamlet. M,A., F.L.S., 

 'Letters Home from Spain, Algeria 

 and Brazil, during past Entomological 

 Rambles,' 997; death of, 810 



Clausilia biplicala, 837 

 „ Rolphii, id. 



Columba livia, 535 

 „ turtur, 768 



Colymbus arcticus, 775 



Coot, 603, 902 



Cormorant, 540, 594, G6G, 676, 871, 906, 

 1014; has not the white leg at Christ- 

 mas, 688; parasitical worms in the 

 stomach of, 795 

 Corvns pica, 763 



Crab, Gibbs' spider, at Peuzance, 1018 



Crake, spotted, 597; corn, migration and 

 hybernation of, 678; in North Lincoln- 

 shire, 943; little, and Baillon's, 974; 

 spotted, in Lancashire, 1017 



Creeper, 895 



Crocodile, Bornean, voracity of the, 878 



