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CONTENTS. 



Octopus vulgaris at Penzance, 3654 



Ommasti-eplies sagittatus off Hast- 

 ings, 3773 



Oological expedition to Holyhead 

 Island, 3601 



Orca latirostris, 3429 



stenoiiiynclia, id. 



OrcadiB, 3428 



Ornithological notes from Norfolk, 

 3854, 3402, 3558, 3711 ; fi-om Devon, 

 Cornwall, &c., 3392, 3783; from 

 North Lineolnshu-e, 3400, 3464, 

 3556, 3684, 3781; from North 

 Wales, 3409; from Castle Eden, 

 3439 ; fi-om Devon and Cornwall, 

 3442, 3466, 3562, 3716 ; from North 

 Lancashire, 3451 ; from Holyhead 

 Island, 3601 ; from Walney Island, 

 3603 ; from Lancashire, 3612, 3800 ; 

 from Longparish, Hants, 3014 ; 

 from Somersetshire, 3624; from 

 Devonshu-e, 3628 ; Mr. Dm-nford's, 

 criticisms on, 3641, 3735; Captain 

 Feilden's criticisms on IMr. Durn- 

 ford's, 3694 ; from Godalming, 3788 ; 

 from Suffolk, during August, 3797 ; 

 from Tamwoi-th, 3801 



Osprey at Hempstead, 3307 



Ostrich-farming at the Cape, 3530, 

 3692 



Otter, large, 3407, 3487, 3506 ; in the 

 Thames, 3797 



Otters near riymouth, 33G5 



Owl, brown, 3.398 



shorteared, 3400, 3465, 3489 



white or barn, 3685 



Oystercatcher, 3602, 3004 

 Ozognathus cormitus, habits of, 3375 



Palinurus vulgaris, 3038 



Papilionidte, variations of nem-ation 

 observed in certain, 3377 



Parrot, night, of New Zealand, ob- 

 servations on the Natm-al Histoiy 

 of, 3021 



Partridge, redlegged, plentiful in East 

 Kent, 3692 



Partridges attracted by gaslight, 3355 



- redlegged and Barbary, 



distinctive marks of, 3453 



Peregrine near Scarl)orong]i, 3802 



Petrel, forktailed, 3400, 3443 



fulmar, 3440 



Leach's, 3455 



storm, 3443 



Petrorhynchus cavirostris, 3431 



Phalarope, gray, 3396, 3445 ; m winter 

 plumage, 3454 ; and pike, 3492, 3529 



Phalarope, rednecked, 3395 ; in East 



Yorkshire, 3371 

 Pheasant, lizard-eating, 3453 

 Phocaena communis, 3427 

 Phocidae, 3769 

 Physalidte, 3362 

 Pliysalus Antiquorum, 3363 

 Dugeridii, id. 



Physeter tursio, 3424 

 Physeteridse, 3423 

 Ph5'seteroidea, id. 



Pigeon, common, and tm'tle dove, 

 hybrid between, 3651 



wood, 3402 ; and stock dove, 



3452 ; eating snails, 3799 

 Pigeons, 3383 



wild, nesting in a stable, 



3691 



Pigs, rats eating, 3797 

 Pike and gray phalarope, 3492, 3529 ; 



voracity of, 3617 

 Pdot-fish off Penzance, 3653 ; and 



shark, ('(7. 

 Pipit, meadow, 3465 



rock, 3397 



Plover, golden, 3401, 3409 



gi-ay, 3782 



green, 3464 



Norfolk, remarkable posture 



of, 3693 



ringed, 3004, 3613, 3800 



Pochard, 308G 



Porpoise, 3427 ; in the Brighton 



aquariiun, death of, 3804 

 Possession Island, 3531 

 Pseudorca crassidens, 3427 

 Puffin, 3445 



Rail, water, 3401 



Eangifer tarandus, 3770 



Pat, varieties of, 3525 



Rats eating i)igs, 3797 



Raven, 3393, 3448 



Razor-back, 3303 



Razorbill, 3446, 3467, 3G01, 3G24, 



3716, 3798 

 Redpoll, mealy, 3402 

 Redshank, 3686 



spotted, 3492 



Redstart, 3024, 3627 



black, 3443 



Redwing nesting in North Yorkshire, 



3411 ; supposed eggs of, 3489 

 Eegulus, firecrested, at Torquay, 3490 

 Rhinoceros, birth of a, in London, 3365 

 Robin and Immming-bird moth, 3396 

 Rook, 3628 ; carnivorous taste in a, 



3714 



