XVill 
near Chester, 9210; nests of, near Bir- 
mingham, 9248 
Redshank, 9245; 
chester, 9289 
Redstart, black, in Cornwall, 9022; at 
Eastbourne, 9040; at Teignmouth, 
9107; at Alton, 9108 ~ 
Redwing, 8869, 9091, 9094, 9354 ; sing- 
ing in England, 8946, 8947, 9021, 
9022, 9040, 9104, 9105, 9106, 9209; 
food and song of, 9106; arrival of, 
9126 
Reeve killed near Grangemouth, 9118; 
in Norfolk, 9290; in Lincolnshire, 
9330; near Beverley, 9362 
Regulus, goldencrested, great arrival of 
at Wick, 8879 
Ripiphorus paradoxus, larva and pupa of, 
9266 
Robin, query about, 8878; query on— 
some notes on its habits, 8947; dun 
variety of, 8949; nest of, 9038; the 
query respecting, 9041; notes on, id.; 
in Shetland, 9095; light-coloured, 
9327; curious habit of, id.;  blue- 
throated, 9356 
Robins, notes about, 8877; scarcity of 
during winter, 8949 
Roedeer, food of, 9359 
Rook, 9168, 9170; and magpie, defence 
of, 8952 
Rooks, food of, 8884, 8885, 8951, 9043, 
9110; breeding in November, 8885 ; 
are they so carnivorous as described ? 
8951 
Ruff at Weston-super-Mare, 8961; at 
Kingsbury Reservoir, Middlesex, 9289 ; 
in Norfolk, 9290; in Lincolnshire, 
9330; near Beverley, 9362 
Salmo salar of the Tay, notes on the food 
and parasites of, 8929 
Sanderling at Gravesend, 9329 
Sandpiper, spotted, near Epworth, 9046, 
9290; green, breeding of, 9115; Bar- 
tram’s and purple, in Sussex, 9118; 
curlew, on the Lincolnshire coast, id. ; 
spotted, doubt as to the occurrence of 
at Epworth, 9121; purple, 9129, 9168 ; 
dunlin, 9166; curlew, at Kingsbury 
Reservoir, Middlesex, 9289; little, 
9304 
Saturnia Mylitta, the Tusseh silkworm, 
life-history of, 9257 
Sawflies, life-histories of, 9067, 9262 
Saxicola sialis, 9302 
Scolopax flavipes, zd. 
Scoter, velvet, off the Sussex coast, 8962 
Scymnus quadrilunulatus, note on, 8894 
Seal, harp, in Shetland, 9090 
spotted, near Chi- 
Seals, grand migration of, 8872; off the 
coust of Yarmouth, 9277, 9359 
Sesia tipuliformis, economy of, 9154 
Shag, 9128, 9232 
Shearwater, Manx, 9231; shot at Flam- 
borough, 9291; at Flamborough and 
Filey, 9330 
Shells, hidden, and the tracks they make, 
8934; Koksing’s, 9226 
Shieldrake, 9324; ruddy, near Epworth, 
9046, 9290, 9363; doubt as to its 
occurrence, 9121 
Shoveller, near Beverley, 9120 
Shrew, common, food of, 9358 
Shrike, great gray, in Somersetshire,_ 
9048 ; near Norwich, 9104; redbacked, 
in Forfarshire, 9360 
Silkworm, on the reversion and restora- 
tion of the, 9088; the Tusseh, 9257, 
9269 
Sirex Gigas at Warrington, 8922 
Sitta carolinensis, 9308 
Skua, 9235; Richardson’s, 9232, 9240; 
off Bridlington Quay, 9365; Buffon’s, 
at Flamborough Head, id.; common, 
at Flamborough Head, id. 
Smew near Eastbourne, 9047 
Smews shot in Yorkshire, 8962 
Snail, boring, of the Bois des Roches, 
8932, 9012, 9154 
Snails, rock-boring: correspondence be- 
tween the late Dr. Buckland and the - 
late Mr. William Baker, 9146 
Snipe, solitary, near Beverley, 8890; 
yellowshanked, 9302 
Snipes, 9093, 9232; and swifts, scarcity 
of, 9328 
Snow bird, 9305 
Sorex tetragonurus, 9358 
Spanus Natalicus, 8980 
Sparrow, variety of, 8877; tree, eggs of, 
9038; near Eastbourne, 9042; house, 
9128, 9174, 9241 ; swamp, 9304 ; chip- 
ping, 9305 
Sparrowhawk, gray hen killed by, 9114; 
in Shetland, 9233; curious situation 
for the skeleton of, 9279 
Sphinx Ligustri, abundance of the larve 
of, 8906; scarcity of in the neigh- 
bourhood of Newark, 8968; larva of, 
9054 
Spiders, habits of, 9331 
Spoonbill in Dublin Bay, 9211 
Squirrel, food of, 9359 
‘Stanton Grange; or, at a Private Tu- 
tur’s,’ notes on, 9036 
Starling, redwinged, in Sussex, 8951; 
note on, 9024; nests of, 9128; food of, 
9280; redwinged, 9306 
