Xiv CONTENTS. 
Shrike, great gray, in East Yorkshire, 
3064; near Yarmouth, 3323 
Siskin, 3296 
Siskins breeding in confinement, 3187 
Skua, common, 3226, 3290 
longtailed, 3292 
—  pomatorhine, id. 
— Richardson’s, 2906, 2907, 2978, 
3010, 3292; dark variety of, 3339 
Skuas, the British, 2533 
pomarine, in Torbay, 2946, 2995 
Snake-bites and wild beasts in India, 
deaths from, 2908 
Snipe, 2924; “drumming” on the 2nd 
of February, 2993; ‘ drumming” in 
winter, 2994 
common, 3249 
great, 3317 
jack, 2924 
Sabine’s, in Scotland, 3188 
Wilson’s, in Cornwall, 3149, 3273 
Somateria mollissima, 3254 
spectabilis, 8255 
Sparrow, tree, 2931, 3015, 3098, 8218 
white, 3324 
Sparrowhawk, 3146 ; on board ship, id. 
Sparrowhawks, 3298 
Sphinges of Fabricius, 2951 
Spiders and frogs, 2995 
Spoonbill, 2978, 3209 
Squirrel swimming, 3272 
Squirrels, 3298 
Stag, Chinese, death of at the Zoological 
Gardens, 3233 
Starling, 2923, 2983, 3137, 3219, 3295 
Starling’s nest built on a wood pigeon’s, 
$112 
Starlings building in September, 3313 
Stercorarius catarractes, 3290 
ceppus, 3292 
parasiticus, id. 
pomarhinus, id. 
Sterna hirundo, 3286 
Stilt, blackwinged, redshank recorded as, 
3064 
Stint, little, 2924 
Stonechat, 3298 
Strepsilas interpres, 3246 
Strix aluco, 3214 
Sturgeon in the Torridge, 3114 
Sturnus vulgaris, 3219 
Swallow and martin, 3234 
Swallow, 3223; white, 3314 
chimney, 3096, 3321; and 
eave, 3234 
Swallows, arrival of, 3064; roosting on 
rushes, 3314 
Swan, hooper, 2932 
. Polish, 3339 
— tame, singular mark on the head 
of a, 3112 
Swift, 3137, 3224, 3258 
— alpine, 3319 
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Syngnathus off Penzance, hitherto un- 
observed as British, 3274 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus, 3224 
Teniocampa rubricosa, food-plant of, 
3027 
Teal, 2924, 3254 
Tern, arctic, 3286 
common, 2906, 2925, 3226 
—— gullbilled, in Hampshire, 3149; 
near Penzance, 3188 
lesser, 3208, 3225, 3318 
Terns, arctic and common, 3206 , 
Thrush, 2930 
missel, 2940, 3102, 3132; va- 
riety of, 3044 
song, 3229, 8296; white variety 
of, 3323 
White's, 2912, 2940, 2941, 2942, 
2978, 2992, 3019, 3020, 3111, 3148, 
3186; description of, obtained in 
Castle Eden Dene, 3041 
Titmice, 3014 
Titmouse, cole, 3297 
crested, near Whitby, 3021 
longtailed, 3297 ; curious habit 
of, 2943; clustering of, 2993; white- 
headed, in Somersetshire, 2943 
———. marsh, 3297 
Tits, bearded, 2983 
Top-knot, Muller’s, at St. Leonard’s, 
2996 
Totanus calidris, 3248 
Tringa alpina, 3250 
Canutus, id. 
maritima, id. 
Troglodytes borealis, 3222 
Tunny at Plymouth, 3276 
Turdi, 2979 
Turdus iliacus, 3215 
merula, id. 
pilaris, id. 
Turnstone, 3246 
Turquoisines, 3240 
Turtle, trunk, in Bridlington Bay, 2907 
Turtur auritus, 3224 
Twite, 2930 
Uria grylle, 3278 
ringvia, 3277 
— troile, id. 
Vanellus cristatus, 3246 
Vanessa Antiopa, 3236 
Varieties of the blackbird, 3020, 3823 
Variety of wild duck, 2932; of waterhen, 
2940; of rock pipit, 2943; of bull- 
finch, 2982; of missel thrush, 3044; 
of tern, 8091; of swallow, 3314; of 
lapwing, 3317; of French partridge, 
8320; of song thrush, 3323; of spar- 
row, 3324; of redlegged partridge, id.; 
of Richardson’s skua, 3339 
