xii 
Landrail, 3112, 3497; taking to water, 
3316 
Lapwing, 3246, 3317 
Lark, shore, near Whitby, 3021 
sky, 3217 
wood, 3051 
Larks, sky, breeding in an aviary, 3186 
Larus argentatus, 3289 
canus, id. 
fuscus, id. 
glaucus, id. 
islandicus, id. 
marinus, id. 
Larva of Eupithecia pygmeata, descrip- 
tion of, 3193; of Eupithecia togata, 
description of, 3276 
Lepidoptera, Gmelin’s, 2951; on the 
Lancashire and Cheshire sand-hills, 
3075 
Lewis, W. Arnold, F.L.S., ‘A Discussion 
of the Law of Priority in Entomo- 
logical Nomenclature,’ 3125 
Lighthouse, Cromer, 3047, 3104, 3134, 
8319 
Limosa egocephala, 3249 
Linnet, brown, 3296 
Lissapterus Howittanus, 2950 
Loxia curvirostra, 3219 
Mackerel and herrings in Brighton 
aquarium, 3339 
Mareca penelope, 3254 
Martin, 2984 
house, 3165; and swallow, 3284 
Melopsittacus undulatus, 3238 
Men and beasts, 3005 
Mentone, le troglodyte de, 3179 
Merganser, 3256 
redbreasted, 2911, 2925 
Mergus castor, 3256 
serrator, id. 
Merlin, 2940, 3213 
Migrants, spring, arrival of, 3062, 3102 
Moles, 3148, 3181, 3182 
Moorhen, 3252 
Motacilla alba, 3216 
Muscicapa atricapilla, 3214 
Natatores, 3277 
Nests, 3103 
Nightingale, 3134, 3225 
Nightjar, 3167, 3224, 3228, 3258, 3297 
Notes on shooting, &c., 2898; on the 
Gouliot cayes in the Island of Sark, 
2988; on the birds of New Zealand, 
3052, 3089; from the Lincolnshire 
coast and North Sea, 8203; on the 
breeding in confinement of the po- 
chard, pinkfooted goose and wigeon, 
3243; on the heronries of Norfolk and. 
Suffolk, 3314 
Numenius arquata, 3248 
pheopus, id. 
CONTENTS. 
Nuthatch, 3297 
Nyctea scandiaca, 3214 
Nycticorax griseus, 3248 
Ocydromus australis, 3089 
Ocyphaps lophotes, 3241 
Gidemia fusca, 3255 
nigra, id. 
perspicillata, id. 
‘On the Genus Acentropus,’ 3117 
Ophion obscurus, early occurrence of, 
3076 
Oriole, golden, in Cambridgeshire, 3257 
Orioles, golden, in confinement, 2942 
Ornithological notes from Guernsey, 
2940, 2921, 2990, 3165, 3233; from 
Devonshire, &c., 2917, 2984; from 
North Lincolnshire, 2928, 8014, 3095, 
3320; from Norfolk, 2977, 3045, 3102, 
3132, 3225, 3317; from Northumber- 
land, 3008; made in the neighbour- 
hood of Plymouth, 3011, 3049, 3099; 
made in Devon and Cornwall, 3186, 
3166, 3258; from North Wales, 3144; 
from Lancashire, 3228; from the 
neighbourhood of Southwold, Suffolk, 
3307; from the North-Western Pro- 
vinces, India, 3329 
Ornithological occurrences in the neigh- 
bourhood of Torquay during the spring 
of 1872, 3134 
Ornithology, English, of 1871, 2908; of 
Shakespeare, 2935; of Dartmoor, 3017 
Ortygometra erex, 3252 } 
Osprey, 3213 
Ospreys in Hampshire, 2991 
Ostrich-farming in South Africa, 3205 
Otter, 3016, 3304 
Otus brachyotus, 3214 
vulgaris, id. 
Ouzel, ring, 2922, 2942, 3136, 3168, 3311 
water, 3049, 3258 
Owl, fern, 3165 
longeared, 3045, 3214 
—— shorteared, 2930, 3016, 3214 
snowy, at Southrepps, in Norfolk, 
2912 
—— tawny, 3214 
Tengmalm’s, in Shropshire, 3111 
Owls, 3295 
— shorteared, abundance of in Not- 
tinghamshire, 2992 
Oystercatcher, 3205, 3246 
Pagomys feetidus, 3333, 3335 
Pagophila eburnea, 3288 
Pagophilus grenlandicus, 3333, 3336 
Pandion haliaétus, 3213 
Papilio Hyale, 2953 
Parrakeet, Pennant’s, nesting of in con- 
finement, 3187 
Partridge, 3297, 3319; and pheasant 
laying in the same nest, 3138 
