CONTENTS. 
Partridge, French, 3045; perching, 2944 
redlegged, nesting in a tree, 
2944; piebald, 3324 
Partridges, diseased, 3314 
Passer montanus, 3218 
Pastor, rosecoloured, 3220 
Peacocks, length of life of, 3324 
Peewit, 2923, 3166, 3229, 3296 
Petrel, forktailed, 3294 
fulmar, 3292 
stormy, 3294 
Phalarope, 2984 
—_ rednecked, 3251 
Phalaropus hyperboreus, 3251 
Pheasant and partridge laying in the 
same nest, 8138; and fowl, hybrid be- 
tween, 3227 
Phocide, 3333 
Phyllopneuste trochilus, 3216 
Picus major, 3222 
Pike, large, 3190 
Pilchards, great abundance of on the 
Cornish coast, 2908 
Pintail, 3253 
Pipit, meadow, 3217 
— rock, 3217; variety of, 2943 
Plectrophanes nivalis, 3217 
Plover, crookbilled, 3052 
golden, 2923, 2931, 3051, 3096, 
3245, 3297 
gray, 3010 
little ringed, 3246 
Norfolk, 2911, 2923 
ringed, 3208, 3245; breeding at 
a distance from the coast, 2905 
Pochard, breeding in confinement of the, 
3243 
“Paget's,” 2980 
Podiceps minor, 3256 
nigricollis, id. 
Pratincole, collared, near Gosport, 2944 
Pratincula rubetra, 3215 
Procellaria Leachii, 3294 
——___ pelagica, id. 
Puffin, 3167, 3279 
Puffinus anglorum, 3293 
major, 3294 
Puppies, ten female in a litter, 2990; 
litter of sixteen, of which one only 
was a male, 3016 
Quail, 3010, 3225, 3297 
Quails breeding in Nottinghamshire, 
2913; in Nottinghamshire, 3314 
Querquedula circia, 3254 
———_——_ crecca, id. 
Rail, spotted, 3047, 3103 
— water, 2924, 3252, 3322 
Raptores, 3213 
Rat, anecdote of a, 3181 
Rats, 3298 
Rattlesnake, use of the rattle of, 3190 
Xiil 
Raven, 3009, 3050, 3099, 3137, 3220, 3258 
Razorbill, 2985, 3012, 8049, 3280 
Razorbills, picked up in the Isle of Wight, 
2994; on the coast of Cornwall, 2995 ; 
mortality amongst, 3023, 3024, 3025 
Redpoll, lesser, 3132, 3226, 3296, 3313; 
breeding in Lancashire, 3147 ; breeding 
at Huddersfield, 3235; and twite, 3235 
mealy, 3219 
Redshank, 2932, 8015, 8248; recorded as 
blackwinged stilt, 3064 
——— _ spotted, near Arundel, 3316 
Redstart, black, 8050, 3051, 3182, 3215, 
3229 
——— Tithys, 2922 
Redwing, 2922, 2930, 2988, 3215, 3296 
Regulus cristatus, 3216 
- ignicapillus, id. 
Rhinoceros, Sumatran, arrival of in the 
Zoological Gardens, 3057; the female 
—successful removal of her horn, 3061; 
another at the Zoological Gardens, 
3232 
Rhinoceroses, Asiatic, 3104 
Rhodostethia Rossi, 3287 
Rissa tridactyla, id. 
Robin, 2984, 3215, 3297 
Rook, 3049, 3096, 3132, 3222 
Ruticilla tithys, 3215 
Ruff, 2924 
Salmon, fine, 3190 
Sanderling, 8246; and cockle, 3314 
Sanderlings at the mouth of the Mersey, 
3149 
Sandpiper, common, 3227, 3229, 3318 
green, 3015, 3318 
purple, 2979, 2984, 3009, 3250 
wood, scent of, 2954 
Saxicola cenanthe, 3215 
Scilly Isles—migratory birds—notes on 
shooting, &c., 2898 
Scolopax rusticola, 3249 
Seoter, common, 2924, 3204, 8255 
surf, 3255 
velvet, 3009, 8255 
Seal in the Dene, 3143; on the Lincoln- 
shire coast, 3203 
common, 3333 
gray, 3336 
—— harp, 3333, 3336 
— hooded, 3334, 3338 
large gray, 3333, 3336 
marbled, 3333, 3335 
Seals that permanently reside in or 
occasionally visit the British Islands, 
3333 
Sepia officinalis, 3037 
Shag, 2985, 8285 
great, 3092 
Shearwater, great, 3294 
———— Manx, 3293 
Shooting, notes on, 2898 
