XI 



Crossl)ill, 539, 872, 893; parrot, 543; 



common, 545; at Ripon,793 

 Crow, hooded, 537, 548, 894 ; nesting in 



Norfolk, 1012; carrion, 600, 894 

 Cuckoo, 529, 895, 909; colouring of 

 eggs of, 828 ; abundance of at May- 

 field, 829; young, in the nest of a 

 meadow pipit, 914; at Peckham, id. ; 

 singular position of egg of, id.; egg 

 placed in the nest by means of the bill 

 of, id. 

 Cuckoo's eggs, colouring of, 828 

 Curlew, 675, 900; pigmy, at Aldeburgh, 



991 

 Deer, red, 978; discovery of the horns 

 of, and other animal remains, in the 

 bed of the River Ribble, 1001 

 Deinacrida heteracantha, 849 

 „ megacephala, 850 



„ thuracica, id. 



Deinacrida, notes on the genus in New 



Zealand, 849 

 Dipper, 750, 887; nesting of the, 755 

 Diver, great northern, 596, 675, 819, 905 ; 

 in Norfolk, 709 ; at Looe, 951 ; black- 

 throated, at Wickham, Hants, 608 ; 

 in Dublin Bay, 686; nesting of, 710 ; 

 on Loch Lomond, 905; redthroated, 

 675, 739, 743, 819, 905; migration 

 and powers of flight of, 680 ; no " red- 

 throat" in winter, 681 ; no " redthroat" 

 till two years old, 682; scarcity of in 

 Dublin Bay at the end of 1866, id. ; 

 in Somerset and Devon, 760; netted 

 at Penzance, 992 

 Divers, 597 

 Dog and horse, vari-coloured eyes in, 



788 

 Dotterel, 808, 870; ringed, 945 

 Dove, turtle, 543, 649, 689, 985 ; ring, 



597, 732, 897 ; stock, 742 

 Doves, stock, breeding in a church, 



758 

 Duck, wild, 664, 691, 904; long-tailed, 

 674; in Dublin Bay, 686; scaup, 674 ; 

 breeding in Britain, 878; ferruginous, 

 in Norfolk, 709; shoveller, in the 

 South of Ireland, 708; tufted, 742 

 Dunlin, 539, 598, 692, 902; variation in 



length of bill of, 813 

 Dunlins at Kingsbury Reservoir, 829 

 Eagle, whiietailed, 537; baldheaded, in 

 Achill, 562; sea, 729, 885; booted, 

 notes on the breeding of, 803; golden, 

 884 

 Eagles, golden and whitetailed, 966 

 Egg of cuckoo, singular position of, 914; 

 placed in the nest by means of the bill, 

 id. 



Eggs of ring ouzel and blackbird, 703; 

 of British birds, varieties of, 706, 875 ; 

 blue and white varieties of, 754; white 

 varieties of, 823; white, of yellow- 

 hammer, 825 ; of cuckoo, colouring of, 

 828 ; of swift, the number laid, 915, 

 990; kestrel's, varieties of, 948; and 

 nests, of hawfinches, 989 

 Elk, 978 



Emberiza citrinella, 767 

 „ lapponica, id. 

 „ rustica, id. 

 Entomological Society, proceedings of, 

 564, 569, 643, 711, 796, 838,' 879, 

 1018 

 Falco gyrfalco, 761 



„ lithofalco (sesalon), 762 

 „ peregrinus, id. 



Falcon, peregrine, 539, 735, 821, 866, 

 885; in Kent, 631 ; nesting of, 702; 

 nesting of in Stirlingshire, 790 ; breed- 

 ing at Beachy Head, 791 ; nesting of 

 in Yorkshire, 947; redfooted, Cornish 

 specimens of, 605 



Falcons, Greenland and Iceland, 966; 

 and hawks, 1005 



Fecundity, canine, 910 



Fieldrare, 740, 8S8; beautiful variety of, 

 633 



Fieldfares, early arrival of, 989 



Finch, mountain, 540, 892 



Fish, Air. Khby's, 830 



Flamborough, notes from, 1008 



Fleas in Southern India, 837 



Flies, starlings hawking for, 593; blue- 

 bottle, are they distasteful to bats ? 

 911 



Flycatcher, nesting of the, 557; pied, 

 542, 867; in the Isle of Wight, 823; 

 Yorkshire haunts of, 949; spoiled, 734, 

 867, 887, 985 



Food of wood pigeon, 561, 593, 6S5, 

 758; of great spotled woodpecker, 

 757 



Fowl, wild, 731,735 



Fox, 668, 922 



Fringilla canescens, 768 

 „ domeslica, id. 

 „ flavirostris, id. 



Fulica aim, 770 



Gadwall shot on the Tav, 562; on the 

 Firth of Forth, 904 



Galhnule, purple, in Hampshire, 829 



G;iinet, 541,739,906 



Garganey, 904 



Garrulus infaustus, 763 



Geese, gray, 974 



Goatsucker, 897 



Godwit, 809; blacktailed, 538 



