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Lark, shore, 541, 595, 729; in Suffolk, 

 560; near Great Yarmouth, 633; in 

 Norfolk, 634; sky, 595,740, 891 ; wood, 

 in Norfolk, 634 ; in Kent, 705 ; near 

 Cromer, 729; in West Sussex, 756; at 

 Brighton, 792; in Stirlingshire, 891 ; 

 sky, black, 705; young, feediug other 

 young ones, 949 



Larks, sky and wood, 970 



Larus argentatus, 771 

 „ can us, id. 

 „ eburneus, id. 

 „ fuscus, id. 

 „ glaucus, id. 

 „ leucopterus, id. 

 „ marinas, id. 

 „ tridactylus, id. 



Lemming, 977 



Lepidoptera, letters on variation in, 721, 

 841; sexual variation — disparity in 

 size, 724 ; of form and colour, 726 ; 

 alternation of generations, 841 



Leptoptilos argala, 834 



Lestris catarrhactes, 772 

 „ crepidata, id. 

 „ parasitica, id. 

 „ pomarina, id. 



'Letters Home from Spain, Algeria and 

 Brazil,' during past Entomological 

 Rambles,' 997 



Limosa rul'a, 770 



Linnet, green, 734 ; mountain, 869, 893 



Linnets, white, 606; gregarious in sum- 

 mer, and why, 634 



Lizards of Labuan, 952 



Lobster, enormous, 1018 



Locusts, a flight of, 795 



Loxia curviroslra, 768 



Machetes pugnax, 770 



Mackerel in the Boulogne aquarium, 

 917, 954; in aquaria, 954 



Magpie, with a yellow beak, 706, 757, 

 826,877,913,1016; in Stirlingshire, 

 894 



Mammalia of Norfolk, 553 ; of Berkshire 

 and Buckinghamshire, 631, 701 



Marmot, alpine, 976 



Martin, 534, 808, 8 1 9, 820, 896, 985, 987 ; 

 sand, creamcoloured, 561 ; while, 680 ; 

 sand, 897 



Marlins and swallows, 594 ; early arrival 

 of, 827 ; picked up dead at Aldeburgh, 

 990; aud wagtails, id. ; dying from 

 cold, 1015 



Martins "building-in" a sparrow, 915 



Mastodon skeleton, perfect, 702 



Meles labradorica, 787 



Merganser, redbreasted, on the Bandon 

 River, 636; on the Firth of Forth, 905 



Mergus senator, 776, 777 



Merlin in Scilly, 555 ; near Cromer, 872 ; 

 in Stirlingshire, 886 



Mice, shrew, 701 



Migrants, autumn and winter, arrival of, 

 594 ; summer, dates of arrival of near 

 Wakefield in 1867, 822; near Nor- 

 wich, 873 



Migration, autumnal, at Scilly, 1014 



Migrations, 730 



Moa, 638 



Mole, 668, 702,882 



Mole-rat, 977 



Moorhen, 604, 902 



Motacilla borealis, 765 



Mouse, common, variety of, 631 ; field, 

 668,701; house, 668 



Mouse's store, 789 



Muscicapa atricapilla, 765 

 „ grisola, id. 



Narwhal, 924 



' Natural History of the Tineina,' 919 



Naturalist, notes of a, in India, 993 



Nature, curious freak of, 541 



Nest of song thrush, 557 ; of flycatcher, 

 id.; of nuthatch, 559; of cole tit, 560 ; 

 of swallow, late, 606; of peregrine 

 falcon, 702, 790,947; of the dipper, 

 755; of kingfisher, 757; of hawfinch, 

 793; of meadow pipit, young cuckoo 

 in, 914; of quail, 915; late, of yellow- 

 hammer, 949; late, of greenfinch, 989 



Nesting of the redstart in curious situa- 

 tions, 824 ; of the kingfisher, 827; of 

 woodcocks, 872 



Nesting lour in Sutherland, extracts from 

 a journal of in 1867, 851 



Nests, curious position of, 951 ; and eggs, 

 hawfinches', 989 



Newman's ' Birdsnesting,' notes on, 987 



Nightingale, 819 



Nuthatch, nesting of the, 559 



Oological notes from Soulh-East Essex, 

 599 



Oriole, golden, at Scilly, 825 



Ornithological notes from Shetland, 537, 

 688 ; from Beverley, East Yorkshire, 

 540; from North Lincolnshire, 546, 

 589,690,807,943; from Falkirk, 554; 

 from Norfolk, 593, 727, 871, 1012; 

 from West Sussex, 596, 730, 81 1 ; from 

 Stirlingshire, 608,637; from Bucking- 

 hamshire, 637; from the County Dub- 

 lin, 678; from the Isle of Wight, 732, 

 819, 908, 985; from Aldeburgh, 822 



Ornithology, letters on, 548, 625 ; of the 

 Firth of Cromarty, 670, 831 ; of the 

 English Lakes, 865; of Berks and 

 Bucks, 1014 



