Starlings, extraordinary arrival of to 
Treland in June, 9211; in Shetland, 
9316 
Statices versus Geryon, 8907 
Stickleback,  five-spined, 
9145 
Stint, little, in the Isle of Wight, 8891 ; 
near Leeds, 9289; in the Humber, 
9330 
Stoat and moorhen, 9015 
Sturnus predatorius, 9306 
Swallow, white, 8887; at Alton, 9108 
Swallows, scarcity of, 8886; late stay of, 
8886, 8955; their stay and departure, 
8955; immense flight of, 9112; arrival 
of, at Blackheath, id.; near York, 
9328 
Swan, Bewick’s, in Derbyshire, 8961 ; on 
the Humber, near Patrington, 8962; 
near Woburn, id.; wild, 9092; black, 
near Beverley, 9251 
Swift, whitebellied, near Manchester, 
8955; in Scotland, 9166; nests of, 
9172; common, scarcity of in the 
neighbourhood of Beverley in 1864, 
i abundance of at Leominster, 
id. 
Swifts, late departure of, 8887; late 
ee of, 9328; and snipes, scarcity of, 
id, 
Swordfish, capture of, off Plymouth, 
8932 
Sylvia calendula, 9303 
» coronata, 9304 
» troglodytes, 9303 
Syrphus Pyrastri, immense swarms of, 
9254, 9333; swarm of on the coast 
near Bridport, Dorset, 9273; at 
Bournemouth, id. 
Tachinus proximus, 9335 
‘Tanager estiva, 9308 
Teal, garganey, 9048, 9169 
Tern, arctic, 9126, 9312, 9323; Sand- 
wich, shot at Flamborough, 9291; 
common, 9323; lesser, zd.; roseate, 
9324; black, at Filey, 9365 
Tetrao umbellus, 9307 
Thera coniferata, description of tbe larva 
of, 9333 
Thrush, song, singular nest of, 9105; 
nesting on the ground, 9105, 9210; 
missel, 9170; nest of, 9172; hermit, 
9299 
Tineina occurring near Haslemere, notes 
on, 8990 
Toad in a rock forty feet below ground, 
9295 
Tortrix costana, curious habit of the 
larva of, 8916 
in Britain, 
XIX 
Trichoptera, British, Manual of, 8976 
Trigona carbonaria, nest of, 8900 
Tringa pusilla, 9304 
Turdus iliacus, 8869 
»  pilaris, 8865 
»  Sdlitarins, 9299 
Turnstone, 9242; is it near Flamborough 
and Filey in July? 9362 
Twite, 9233, 9280, 9316, 9331 
Variety of blackbird, 8877; of common 
bunting, id.; of yellow bunting, id.; 
of corn crake, zd.; of linnet, id.; of . 
sparrow, id.; of swallow, 8887; of 
robin, 8949, 9327; of hedyesparrow, 
8949; of sky lark, 8950; of common 
wild duck, 9047; of blackbird, 9107; 
of common partridge, 9362 
Varieties, breeding of, 8905, 8967 ;- of the: 
larva of Eupithecia fraxinata of Crewe, 
9252; of E. pulchellata, 9253; of E. 
lariciata of Frey, 9254 
Vole, bank, in some numbers in Derby- 
shire, 9016 
Wagtail, pied, 9317 
Warbler, grasshopper, eggs of, 8877, 
9108; reed, nesting in gardens, 9109; 
egg of cuckoo in nest of, 9211; yellow- 
Trump, 9304 ; 
Wasps, spring, on the abundance of, 
9137; scarcity or abundance of in 
1864, 9216 
Wasps and bees, on the construction of 
hexagonal cells of, 9085; ceils of, 
9155 
Waxwing near Hull, 8880; in Norfolk, 
id., 8950: at Wick, 8880; in Aber- 
deenshire, 8881; Bohemian, on the 
west coast of Argyllshire, ¢d.; occur- 
rence, capture and dissection of at 
Beverley, id.; near Warrington, 8883 ; 
Bohemian, near Liscard, 9023; in the 
West Riding of Yorkshire, id. 
Weasel, anecdote of a, 8945 
Whale, bonnet of, 9155 
Whales, 9226; in the Bristol Channel, 
9359 
Wheatear, 9126, 9241, 9245, 9324 
Wheatears in March, 9041, 9108 
Whimbrel on the Lincolnshire coast, 
9115; in Shetland, 9239 
Whinchat, nest of, 9166 
Whitethroat, lesser, nest of 8949 
Widgeon, American, in Essex, 8962; 
note on, 9024 
Woodcock, early breeding of, 9119 
Woodpecker, spotted, 8954; great spotted, 
near Beverley, 9024; great black—has 
it occurred in Norfolk? 9248; lesser 
spotted, at Reading, 9280; redheaded, 
