XVI 



in Jersey, id.; at Lyme Regis, 7599 ; 



nest of, with five eggs, ISOl ; number 



of eggs laid by, 1847; in St. Buryan, 



near Penzance, 1951; grasshopper, 



1673; sedge, id.; baybreasted, 1694 ; 



black and yellow, id. ; blackpoll, id.; 



blackthroated green, id.; chestnut. 



sided, if/. ; Nashville, id. ; yellow, id. ; 



yellow red-poll, id. ; yellowruinped, id. j 



blackcap, 1911 

 Warblers, early singing of, 1721 

 Waterfowl, the, in St. James's Park, 



1519 

 Waxwing, Bohemian, 1673 

 Wheatear, 1545, 1672, 1840; variety of, 



1918 

 Whimbrel, 1498, 1697, 1739, 1841, 1906, 



1861 

 Whinchat, 1672 

 Whitethroat, 1545 



Wigeon, 1666; breeding in confine- 

 ment, 1865; American, 1756; English, 



id. 

 Willet, 1750 



Woodchat in Keul iu 1868, 1863 

 Woodcock, 1543; buffcoloured, 1602; 



white, 1645 ; black, or log cock, 1692; 



European, 1749; American, 1750 

 Woodcock's nest, 1490 

 Woodcocks and snipe, 1496 



Woodpecker, nidification of, 1515; laying 

 twenty-two eggs, 1919 



Woodpecker, great spotted, 1490, 1491, 

 1492, 1494, 1495, 1496, 1695, 1700, 

 1761,1861,1911; in Morayshire,1515; 

 near Faversham, 1562: great black, 

 1515; in Leadenball Market, id. ; in 

 Hampshire, 1516, 1562; lesser spotted, 

 at Faversham, 1562; banded three- 

 toed, 1691 ; blatkbacked ihreetoed, id. ; 

 downy, id. ; hairy, id. ; lesser spotted, 

 1696; green, 1886 



Worms, parasitical, in the stomach of a 

 redbreasted merganser, 1603 



Wren, pugnacity of, 1644 ; rubycrowned, 

 1693; goldcrested, 1736; winter, 1742; 

 and flycatcher building their nests to- 

 gether, 1799; willow, nest of in a 

 quickset fence, 1918; goldencrested, 

 nesting in ivy, id. 



Wrens, abundance of, 1720 



Yellowhammer, variety of, 1847 



Yellowthroat, Maryland, 1694 



Zonotrichia albicollis, 1547 



Zoological Society, extracts from the 

 Report of the Council of, 1775 



Zoology of Newfoundland, 1609, 1689, 

 1741, 1849; of the Swedish arctic 

 exploration, 1766 



Zootoca V, Lacerta, 1868 



