CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTEIBUTOES. 



Andeeson, a., F.Z.S. 



Voracious and cannibalistic propen- 

 sities of some fishes, 2647; Orni- 

 thological notes from Futtebgurh, 

 N.W.P. India, 2677; Note on the 

 habits of the tree cat, 2762; Curious 

 nesting-places of some Indian birds, 

 2784 ; Arrival of cold-weather visit- 

 ants in India, 2802; Night heron 

 breeding in immature plumage, &c., 

 2807; Weight of graylags, 2810; 

 Notes on Indian crocodiles, 2862 



Angus, VV. Craibe 



Litter of foxes, 2638 ; Seal capturing 

 a herring gull, 2762 ; Eagles on the 

 Grampians, 2764 ; Hybrid between 

 a barn fowl and a common phea- 

 sant, 2769; Double embryo in a 

 pheasant's egg, 2770 



Balkwill, F. H. 



Phalaropes in Plymouth Sound, 2442 

 Bates, B. 

 Schinz's sandpiper at Eastbourne, 

 2442 

 Birchall, Edwin 



Entomology in 1709, 2670 

 Blackmore, Henry 



Weight of roach, 2445; Great bus- 

 tards in Wilishire, 2477, 2510 

 Blake-Knox, H., J.P. 



Preservation of sea-fowl, 2444; Little 

 stint on the Dublin coast, Brun- 

 nich's guillemot on the Dublin 

 coast, 2609; American bittern in 

 Ireland, 2642 ; Swans in Ireland in 

 the winter of 1870-71, Gadwall in 

 Dublin Bay, 2644 ; Ferruginous 

 duck on the East coast of Ireland, 

 2645; Little gull in Dublin Bay 

 and in Londonderry, 2646 

 Bond, Frederick, F.L.S. 



Late-staying Hirundines,2440 ; Quail 

 nesting between Hampstead and 

 Kentish Town, 2683; Singular 

 nesting of the nuthatch at East 

 Grinstead, Sussex, 2850 



BOULTON, W. W. 



Anatomical peculiarity of the hooper's 

 beak, 2504 

 Botes, Frederick 

 Great gray shrikes in East Yorkshire, 

 2482; Bittern in East Yorkshire, 

 2484; Hoopers in East Yorkshire, 

 2486; Smews in East Yorkshire, 

 2487; Iceland gull in East York- 

 shire. Glaucous gull in East York- 

 shire, 2488; Anatomical peculiarity 

 of the hooper's beak, 2504 ; Water- 

 hen submerging itself, 2522; Gad- 

 wall in East Yorkshire, 2525; 

 Common scoter inland, Goosander 

 in East Yorkshire, 2526; Rednecked 

 grebe in East Yorkshire, 2527; 

 Little gull in East Yorkshire, 2528 ; 

 Variety of fieldfare near Beverley, 

 2607; Missel thrush. Migration of 

 larks in East Yorkshire, 2639; 

 Brent geese inland. Hoopers in 

 East Yorkshire, 2643; Bewick's 

 swan near Beverley, Garganey teal 

 in East Yorkshire, Scoter near 

 Beverley, 2644; Ospreys in East 

 Yorkshire, Marsh harrier in East 

 Yorkshire, 2847; Is the corn crake 

 polygamous ? 2869 

 BoYN'ToN, Thomas 



Hoopers at Hull, 2487; Rare gulls, 

 &c., at Bridlington, 2488; Goos- 

 ander, glaucous gull and Iceland 

 gull in Yorkshire, 2526; Hoopoe 

 near Bridlington, 2641 

 Bradby, Anthony S. 



Hooded crow, Food of the quail, 2484; 

 Whitefronted goose at Cliddesden, 

 2486 

 Brooke, A. B. 



While sand martin, 2440; Graylag 

 goose and American goshawk, 

 2524 

 Brown, John A. Harvie 



Ringed plover breeding inland, 

 2851 ; Cormorant breeding inland, 

 2852 



