CONTENTS. 



XV 



Books and giills, 3393 

 Rooks eating acorns, 3800 

 Eorqual, gi'eat northern, 33G3 



broadbilled, 3364 



Ei;tlolplims laticeps, id. 

 Euffs and reeves, 3803 



Salmon, large, 3618 

 Sanderling, 3393, 3602, 3605, 3801 

 Sandpiper, cm-lew, 3803 ; migration 

 and habits of, 3720 



green, 3714, 3715, 3798, 



3800 



■pm-ple, 3400, 3443 



Saxby, Dr., death of, 3700 

 Scoter, 3399, 3599 

 Scyllarus arctus at St. Leonard's, 3654 

 Sea-lion at dinner, 3447 

 Sea-sei-pent, Norwegian, appearance 

 of an animal believed to be that 

 which is called the, on the Western 

 Coast of Scotland, 3517 ; the sup- 

 posed, 3804 

 Seriaha growing on a hippocampus, 

 3494 



Shag, 3442 



Shark, Beaimiaris, at Hastings, 3617; 

 and pilot-fish, 3653 



• fox, off the coast of Cornwall, 



3697 



Shearwater, Manx, near Bimiingham, 

 3413 



Shelley, G. E., F.G.S., Z.S., &c., 'A 



. Handbook to the Bii-ds of Egypt,' 

 3381 ^^^ 



Shieldrake, 3559, 3604, 3800 



Shrew, common, semi-aquatic habits 

 of, 3525 



Shrike, great gray, 3441, 3489 



Sibbaldius borealis, 3364 



Siskin, 3399, 3410 



Siskins in East Yorkshire, 3412 



Skua, pomatorhine, 3600 



^ Eichardson's, 3399 



Snails, wood pigeon eating, 3799 



Snake, large, 3696 



Snipe, 3558 ; common, dark variety 

 of, 3529 ; fawn-coloured variety of, 

 3559 ; young, 3614 



Snipes, 3394 



Sparrowhawk, 3716 



Sparrows, 3397 



Sphaerocephalus incrassatus, 3428 



Spoonbill, 3712 



Squid, large, exhibited in Japan, 3591 



Sciim-rel, Australian flying, breeding 

 in confinement, 3526 



singular situation for a, 3408 



Stag, Chinese, lately at the Zoological 



Gardens, 3352 

 Starling, 3392 ; nest of, under gi-ound, 



3647 ; mode of feeding of, 3648 ; 



white, 3714 

 Starlings, late nesting of, 3368 

 Stint, Temminck's, 3716 

 Stoat in winter, 3447 

 Stoats, a dog eating, 3640 

 Stork, wliite, m Suffolk, 3580; near 



Yarmouth, 3712 

 Sturgeon, large, in the Ouse, 3803 

 Swallow, chimney, 3600 ; nest of, 



3713 

 Swallows, late, 3369 ; and sand mar- 



tms, 3625 

 Swan, Pohsh, 3372 

 Swans, black, 3492 

 Swift, 3600, 3684, 3714, 3715 

 Swifts, extraordinary flight of, 3690 



Taste, the lecture on, 3663 

 Tern, arctic, 3605 



black, 3455 



common, 3605, 3798, 3800 



lesser, 3606, 3798, 3800, 3801 



Sandwich, 3605 ; nesting on 



Walney Island, 3773 



Terns, 3600, 3716 



whitewinged black, 3712 



Thi'ushes, missel, nesting in rocks, 



3688 



song, abundance of in the 



North, 3490 



Tit, longtaUed, 3401, 3558 

 Triboliima ferrugineum in ground- 

 nuts, 3534 

 Trilobite, a recent, 3372 

 Tringa subarquata, 3720 

 Turnstone, 3605, 3687 

 Tiirsio truncatus, 3425 



UngiUate, enormous fossil, 3446 

 Ursus maritimus, 3767 



Variety of the common snipe, 3529 ; 

 of blackbh-d's egg, 3558; of the 

 snipe, 3559, 3614 ; of the thi-ush, 

 3559; of the chafiinch, id.; of 

 woodcock, 3712, 3713 ; of starling, 

 3714 ; of sky lark, 3800 



Varieties of the sky lark, 3412; of 

 rat, 3525 



Vipers in the New Forest, 3736 



Visitants, summer, in West Cumber- 

 land, 3643 



Waders flymg at dusk, 3530 



