CONTENTS. 1x 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 
Adjutants, death of in a cyclone, 3185 
ARgialites fluviatilis, 3246 
hiaticula, 3245 
Alauda arvensis, 3217 
Alca impennis, 3280 
—  torda, id. 
Ampelis garrulus, 3216 
Anarhynchus frontalis, 3052 
Anas acuta, 3253 
— boschas, id. 
Anecdote of a rat, 3181 
Animals of Orissa, 3172 
Anser albifrons, 3252 
— ferus, id. 
Anthus obscurus, 3217 
pratensis, id. 
Arctica alle, 3279 
Ardea cinerea, 3247 
Arrivals, spring, in Guernsey, 3062; in 
Nottinghamshire, id.; at Bury, id.; at | 
Carshalton, 3145 
Auk, ‘great, 2946, 3280, 8338; on Disco, 
3064 
— little, 3279; in summer plumage, 
3228 
Badger, white, 3180 
Barnacle attached to a cork, 3027 
Barramunda, a new ganoid fish from 
Queensland, 3188 
Bernicla brenta, 3253 
canadensis, id. 
leucopsis, id. 
Bird cage, memoirs of my, 3157 
Bird-friends of the farmer, 3294 
* Bird-Life,’ 2997 
‘Birds of the West of Scotland, including 
the Outer Hebrides,’ 2957 
Birds, migratory, 2898; rare, in Not- 
tinghamshire, 2939; rare, at Plymouth, 
2940; nocturnal flight of, 2978; at- 
tracted by lighthouses, 2990, 3144; 
abnormal colouring in, 2991; observed 
in Liverpool Market, 3018, 3066; 
attacking dragonflies, 3018; of New 
Zealand, 3052, 3089; in Smithfield and 
Leadenhall Markets, 3065; Guernsey, 
are they British? 3066, 3109, 3145, 
3183, 3324; spring, arrival of, 3111, 
8145; of the Feroe Islands, 3210, 
8245, 3277; at Glenarm, 3235; in 
aviaries, 3237; observed at Aldeburgh, 
Suffolk, in the summer of 1872, 3206 
Birds’, wild, Protection Act, 3230 
Bittern, 2940, 2983, 2994, 3010 
little, 3008, 3247, 3316 
Blackbird, 3050, 8215; varieties of the, 
3020, 3323 
Blackeap, 3098; arrival of, 3063 
Blackfish on the coast of Cornwall, 3236 
Bogue off Plymouth, 3189 
Botaurus minutus, 3247 
Brambling, 3103, 3218, 3296 
Bree, C. R., M.D., F.Z.S., ‘An Exposi- 
tion of Fallacies in the Hypothesis of 
Mr. Darwin,’ 3175 
Brehm, Dr. A. E., ‘ Bird-Life,’ 2997 
Budgerigar, 3238 
Budytes flava, 3217 
Buller, Walter Lawry, F.L.S., &e., ‘A 
History of the Birds of New Zealand,’ 
3077 
Bullfinch, melanism of, 2982 
Bunting, blackheaded, 3166, 3168 
snow, 2929, 3015, 3217, 3313 
Butterflies, Ray’s arrangement of, 2882; 
Haworth’s arrangement, 2884; Dr, 
Leach’s system, 2885; Latreille’s, 2886; 
Herrich-Scheeffer’s arrangement, 2887 ; 
Edward Newman’s arrangement, 2889; 
in which the pup are enclosed in a 
silken cocoon like those of moths, 
2890; Mr. Kirby’s arrangement, 2891; 
European, new names for, 3074 
Buzzard, 2922, 2940, 3012, 3051, 3111, 
3167 
—— honey, in the New Forest, 
3146; in Suffolk, 3185 
—— roughlegged, 2989, 3111 
Calidris arenaria, 3246 
Callocephalus vitulinus, 3333 
Calopsitta Nove-Hollandie, 3240 
Caprimulgus Europeus, 3224 
Chafiinch, 3218, 3296 
Channel Islands, are they British? 3184, 
3304, 3324 
Charadrius pluvialis, 3245 
Chiffchaff in March, 3020; early arrival 
of, 8021, 3063, 3064; arrival of, 3052 
Chlorospiza chloris, 3219 
Chough, Cornish, 3099 
Chroicocephalus ridibundus, 3287 
Cinclus aquaticus, 3215 
Circus eruginosus, 3214 
Clangula glaucion, 3256 
Cockateels, 3240 
Colies, South-African, gregarious roost- 
ing of, 2993 
Colin, Virginian, in Nottinghamshire, 
2940, 2994. 
Coluber Austriacus in Dorsetshire, 3313 ; 
at Bournemouth, 3150 
Columba livia, 3224 
palumbus, id. 
Colymbus arcticus, 3256 
glacialis, id. 
septentrionalis, id. 
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