CONTENTS. XV 
Vulture, whitebacked, nesting of, 3329 
Wader, Whitby, 2905 
Waders, spring, 3133 
Wastail, grayheaded, 3217 
pied, 3048, 3132 
white, 3216 
yellow, or Ray’s, 3166 
Wastails, 3049, 3296 
Warbler, Dartford, 3272 
grasshopper, breeding habits 
of, 3311 
reed, 3225 
sedge, 3228 
willow, 3216, 3228 
Waterhen, variety of, 2940; eggs of, 
8133 
Waxwing, 3216; Bohemian, 3010 
Waxwings in East Yorkshire, 2993; in 
Nottinghamshire, 3021 
Weka, 3089 
Wheatear, 3096, 3215, 83298; is it com- 
moner than usual this season? 3311 
Whimbrel, 3165, 3205, 3248, 3273 
Whinchat, 3136, 3215, 3298 
Whiting, large, near Penzance, 2996 
Wigeon, 3254; breeding in confinement 
of the, 3248 
Wild beasts and snake-bites in India, 
deaths from, 2908 
Wild Birds’ Protection Act, 3230 
Wild-fowl, 3048; during the breeding 
season, a bill for the protection of, 
3139; protection bill, 3183 
Woodcock, 2924, 3046, 3133, 3227, 3249, 
3318; breeding in the New Forest, 
8236, 3260 
Woodcocks nesting, 3103; breeding in 
Wolmer Forest, 3188 
Wood-hen, 3089 
Woodpecker, great black, near Oxford, 
2913, 3021 
————_ ereat spotted, 3222, 3258 
——_—— green, 3100, 3133 
Woodpeckers, 3297 
Wren, common, 3226, 3297 
firecrested, 3216 
— goldencrested, id. 
— northern, 3222 
Wryneck, 3222, 3227 
Xema Sabini, 3287 
“Yarrell,” the fourth edition of, 3018 
Zoology of the Royal Academy, 3197 
