CONTENTS. 



XI 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OP SUBJECTS. 



jEgialites hiaticula, 3809 



Alligators, economic value of, 3954 



Angler or fishing-frog at the Man- 

 chester Aquarium, 4264 



Animals, aquarium, transmission of, 

 3845 ; and plants, observations on 

 in reference to the theory of Evolu- 

 tion of Living Forms, 3925 ; struc- 

 tm-e, habits and economy of, 3965 



Apteryx, the ; its mode of feeding, 

 4198 



Apteryx australis, 3939 



Haastii, 4014 ; recent occur- 

 rence of, 4158 



Oweni, 3979 



Aquariimis, the denizens of, 3876 

 Astroides calicularis of Milne-Ed- 

 wards, 3955 

 Auk, httle, 3819 ; and dunlin, 4200 

 Avocet, 4230 



Barbastellus Daubentonii, 4128 

 Bat, hairy-armed, in Ireland, 4071, 



4236 ; noctule, food of, 4153 ; note 



on, 4194 

 Bats, a flight of, 4075 ; British, notes 



on, 4125 

 BeU, Thomas, F.E.S., 'A History of 



British Quadrupeds, including the 



Cetacea,' 4005 

 Belt, Thomas, 'The Naturahst in 



Nicaragiia,' 3925 

 Bernicla Brenta, 3814 



leucopsis, 3815 



Bu-d notes from the West, 3824 

 Bird, frigate, visit to the breeding 

 haunts of the, 3991 



snow, 3810 



Birds observed at Glenai-m Castle, 

 3829 ; small, indifference of to the 

 kestrel, 3834; of New Zealand, 

 3898, 3936, 3979, 4014 ; seen dming 

 a three weeks' tour in Brittanj^ 

 8945 ; pairing of, 3954 ; new classi- 

 fication of, 3987 ; summer, arrival 

 of at Glenarm, 4032; nestling, 

 complaint in, 4075 ; gymnogenous, 

 4095 ; hesthogeuoiTs, id. ; in Cam- 

 bridge Market, 4116; of Walney 

 Island, 4191 ; shore, on the Cley 

 and Blakeney Muds, 4196 ; arrival 

 of spring, in Nottinghamshhe, id. ; 

 in Guernsey, 4237; rare, at East- 

 bom-ne, 4258 



' Bu'ds of Great Britain,' Introduction 

 to the, 4085 



' Bhds, then* Cages and their Keep ; 

 being a Practical Manual of Bhd- 

 keeping and Bu-d-rearing,' 4245 



Bittern, Uttle, 4063, 4118 ; near Ep- 

 ping, 4199 



Blackbu-d, 3865 



Blackcap, autumnal migration of, 

 4259 



Blackwall, John, F.L.S., ' Eesearches 

 in Zoology, illustrative of the 

 Structm-e, Habits and Economy of 

 Animals,' 3965 



Boreogadus Fabricii, 3820 



Bream, Kay's, near Penzance, 4266 



British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: Belfast (1874), 

 4195 



Buist, K. A., ' Bu-ds, their Cages and 

 then- Keep,' 4245 



Bunting, blacklieaded, 3866 



snow, 3805, 3857, 3862, 3864, 



3913 



Buzzard, common, 3826, 3871, 3996, 

 4063, 4065 



honey, 3824, 3869; near 



Huddersfield, 4153; in Cheshire, 

 4237 



roughlegged, 3908 



Buzzard near Newmarket, 3830 

 Buzzards in Norfolk, 4117 



Cassowaries, distribution of the spe- 

 cies of, 4199 



Cat, a vegetarian, 4031 



Cephus Mandti, 3817 



Certhia famiharis, pecuhar position in 

 feet of, 3998 



Chaf&nch nesting in confinement, 

 4238 



Chicken, four-legged, 3835 



Chickens, young, osprey carrying off, 

 3996 



Chiffchaff, 4197; autumnal song of, 

 4238 



Chimpanzee, death of, in the Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens, 3952 



Clausdia Eolphii m Surrey, 4243 



Colymbus septentrionahs, 3817 



Cormorant, 4230, 4251 



Crabs, king, at the Crystal Palace 

 Aquarium, 4266 



