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the ground, 8947, 9022; of lesser 
whitethroat, 8949 ; of kingfisher, 8954 ; 
of water ouzel, 9037; of robin, 9038 ; 
of yellowhammer, 9043; singular, of 
song thrush, 9105; of song thrush, on 
the ground, 9105, 9210; blackbird’s, 
curious place for, 9107; of ring ouzel, 
in Yorkshire, id.; of reed warbler, in 
gardens, 9109; of whinchat, 9166 ; of 
thrush, 9172; of yellow wood wren, 
id.; of swift, id.; of the coach-whip 
bird and of the whitefronted Epthi- 
anura, 9175; of brambling, 9210; of 
lesser redpole, 9210, 9248; of reed 
warbler, cuckoo’s egg in, 9211; of rock 
pipit, 9232; of wren, 9239; of ring 
dove or wood pigeon, 9361 
Nests, birds’, in December, 8964 
Nightjar, 9166 
Noctua festiva, 8989 
Notes, Natural-History, from Norway, 
8865, 9354 
Nuthatch, Carolina, 9308 
Ocean, deep, life in the, 9296 
Ogcocephalus (read Cephaloncus, 9012) 
Capito, 8897 
Oporabia filigrammaria, description of 
the larva of, 8913 
Oriole, Indian, 9347 
Ornithological notes from Shetland, 9091, 
9124, 9230, 9310 
Ornithology of Iceland, notes on the, 
8935, 8964; of Norfolk, notes on the 
9025, 9103; of Flamborough, notes on 
the, 9326 
Osprey near Preston, 8875; in Devon- 
shire, 9039; in North Wales, id.; in 
Shetland, 9128; in Scotland, 9174; 
near Beverley, 9207 
Otter in salt water, 8872; at Pagham 
Harbour, 9016; at Kingsbury Reser- 
voir, 9155 
Ouzel, ring, in Yorkshire, 8877; near 
Malton, 8946; water, nest of, 9037; 
ring, nesting in Yorkshire, 9107; 
water, 9173; in Shetland, 9239; in 
- Norway, 9356 
Owl, barn, nest of with eight eggs, 8875 ; 
shorteared, perching, 8876 ; near Alton, 
8946; Tengmalm’s, captured at Flam- 
borough, 9320; mobbing an, 9038; 
longeared, at Stratford St. Anthony, 
Wiltshire, 9105; snowy, 9240, 9317; 
eagle, 9240 
Oystercatcher, 9091, 9234, 9245, 9324 
Parasites, of the Salmo salar of the Tay, 
8929; external, of fish, 9014 
Partridge, alighting on a tree, 9114; 
common, pale variety of, near Beverley, 
9362 
Partridges in a tide mill-pond, 9982 
Paussus Curtisii, 8926 
»  Spencii, zd. 
Petrel, storm, in Dublin Bay, 8890; 
Wilson’s, in the Isle of Wight, 8892; 
storm, 9314; fulmar, near Flam- 
borough Head, 9365 
Phalarope, gray, in Caithness, 8890; red- 
necked, 9313 
Picus erythrocephalus, 9297 
» pubescens, 9307 
»  Villosus, zd. 
Pigeon, laying three eggs, 9113; rock, 
at Flamborough, 9245; passenger, 
9308; wood, nesting in Oxford, 9361 
Pieris Rapz, on the occurrence of in 
Canada, 9371 
Pilot-fish at Penzance, 9145 
Pipit, rock, in Norfolk, 9109; nests of, 
9232; at Flamborough, 9245; water, 
near Brighton, 9279; meadow, 9316 
Plover, thickknee, eggs of, 9114; gray, 
on the Lincolnshire coast, 9115; 
ringed, 9127, 9167; golden, 9168, 9230, 
9300, 9315; great, near Beverley, 9282; 
ringed, at Kingsbury, Middlesex, 9283 ; 
at Shetland, 9316 
Podiceps cornutus, 9308 
Porpoises at the Zoological 
8874; and salt water, 8945 
Prosopocoilus bulbosus, 8984 | 
Psophodes crepitans, 9175 
Psyche neuropterous, 8975 
Ptilodontis plumigera in November, 
8912 
Puffin, young, in November, 8891; in 
Sussex, 9122; in Shetland, 9239 ; eggs 
of, 9246 
Pupa-digging, results of, 9055 
Pupa of Eupithecia pulchellata, 9253 ; of 
E. lariciata of Frey, 9254; of Erio- 
gaster lanestris, 9259; of Eupithecia 
campanulata, 9260; of Ripiphorus 
paradoxus, 9266 
“Puss” moth, origin of the name of, 
8971; and English names in general, 
9054 
Pycnonotus hemorhous, 9346 
Quail, young, near Wakefield, 9362 
Rail, spotted, near Beverley, 8961 ; water, 
9095; Carolina, 9304; Virginian 
s 
Gardens, 
id. 
Rat, old English, supposed capture of 
near Beverley, 8872, 8945, 9016 
Rats, 9037 
Ravens, 9094, 9124, 9241 
Razorbill, 8964, 9237 
Red-bird, summer, 9308 
Redpole, nesting of at Dalkey, 8884; 
lesser, building in Kent, 8951; nest of, 
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