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CONTENTS. 



North Wales, 4156; of herons, 

 4188; cm-ious, of the flycatcher, 

 4197 ; of the golden oriole, 4232 ; 

 of the chaffinch ui confinement, 

 4238 



Nestmg-place, curious, of the greater 

 tit, 4076 



Nests of tits, cm-iously situated, 4076 



' Nicaragua, Natui-ahst in,' 3925 



Nightingale, 4190 



Notes on the Fauna of Spitsbergen, 

 3105; bird, from the West, 3824; 

 from Leiston, Suffolk, 3865 ; on the 

 bh-ds of New Zealand, 8898, 3936, 

 3979, 4014 ; on the Lido, Torcello, 

 and the Pineta, 3977; ornitho- 

 logical, 4063; from Castle Eden, 

 4066, 4221 ; on British bats, 4125 ; 

 on the bu-ds of Walney Island, 

 4191 



Nuthatch, 3864 



Nyctea nivea, 3806 



Octopus at Plymouth, 4037 



* Official Handbook to the Collection 

 of Animals of the Wurtembm-g 

 Stuffed Anunals Company,' 3974 



Oriole, golden, nesting of in Kent, 

 4232 



Ornithological jottings, 4231 



Ornithological notes from West Sus- 

 sex, 3822 ; from Devonshire, Corn- 

 waU, &c., 3826, 3909, 3943, 4102, 

 4226, 4253; from North Lmcolu- 

 shhe, 3856, 3942, 4029, 4059, 4224 ; 

 from Norfolk, 3859, 4185; from 

 Somersetshire, 3868; from Tor- 

 quay, 3906, 4065 ; from Lancashu-e, 

 3912; fi-om Denbighshire, 3913; 

 fi-om North Devon, 4131, 4249; 

 fi-om Dartmouth, 4230 



Ornithological query, 4116 



Ornithology of the Orkneys, 3883 



Osprey, 3860; canymg off yoimg 

 chickens, 3996, 4117 



Ostrich economy, 3917 



Ostriches pahing, 3916; hatching 

 then- eggs, 4198 



Otter, large, in the Isle of Wight, 

 3952 



Ouzel, i-ing, &c., at Exmouth, 3831 ; 

 on Dartmoor, 4230 



Owl, barn, and great spotted wood- 

 pecker, food of, 4117 



brown, 3871 



eagle, at Bridgnorth, 3997 



snowy, 3808 ; nidification of in 



confinement, 4154 



Owl-parrot, 4260 

 Oystercatcher, 3822, 

 4250 



4134, 4224, 



Pagophila eburnea, 8810 



Parrot, night, 4200 



Partridge, redlegged, 4224 



with white "horseshoe," 



3834 ; perching in a tree, id. ; and 



sparrowhawk, 3869 

 Partridges, late breeding of, 4260 

 Peewit, 4029 

 Pehcan, an escaped, killed at Faver- 



shanj, 4262 

 Penguin at the Zoo, 4262 

 Peregrine near Newmarket, 3830 

 Peregrines in the Isle of Wight, 4082; 



at Torquay, 4006 

 Petrel, fuhnar, 3814 

 Phalacrocorax punctatus, 4015 

 Phalarope, gi-ay, 3859 ; in Cornwall, 



4239 ; in Chcshhe, id. 



rednecked, at Salthouse, 



Norfolk, 4159 



Pigeon, crowned, memorandum on 

 the, 4197 



Pigeons, wood, laying in January, 

 3998 ; earner, press, 4157 



Pilot-fish at Plj-mouth, 4206 



Pimeleptems Cornubiensis, a sup- 

 posed new fish, at Penzance, 4255 



Pintail, 3943 



Pipit, tawny, at Brighton, 3832 



Plccotus auritus, 4128 



Plectrophanes nivahs, 3805 



Plover, golden, 3826, 3858, 4029 



gray, 3912, 4060 



Norfolk, 3862, 3867 



ringed, 3809, 4061, 4004 



Pratincole at the Lizard, Cornwall, 



4077 

 ProceUaria glaciaUs, 3814 

 Ptai-migan, 3808 

 Puffin, 3819 ; how it ascends to its 



nest, 4118 



' Quadinipeds, a History of British, 

 including the Cetacea,' 4005 



Quail, Vu-ginian, in Northampton- 

 shhe, 3835 



Rabbit with one ear, 4153 

 EaU, spotted, 4253 



wat«r, 3881, 4036, 4064 



Rat, common, piebald and malformed, 

 3996 



water, albino, 4074 



" Eat-bats," habitat of, 4075 



