CONTENTS. 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 
Accipitres, 287 
Acclimatisation of Waterfowl, 359 
Air-bladders of fish, 97 
Alauda arvensis, 166, 177 
Alca arra, 211 
» torda, 212 
Anatide, 183 
Animal sounds, 54 
Animals, popular names of, 113 
Animals, Vertebrated, a List of the, now 
or lately living in the Gardens of the 
Zoological Society’ (review), 160 
a and Wasps, observations on, 
Ardea cinerea, 167 
Argentine, Hebridal, 112, 223 
‘ Ascent of the Matterhorn’ (review), 78 
Auk, Great, sale of eggs of, 365; model 
of the, 516 
3, Little, 53, 212, 340 
Autumnal migration, 485, 486 
Avocet, 71; in South Devon, 486; 
Cornwall, 487 
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Badger near Leeds, 251; white, in Hamp- 
shire, 252 
Bears, Polar, young at the Zoological 
Society’s Gardens, 483 
Beaver, on the extinction of the, in 
Livonia, 215; in Norway, 233, 443, 497 
Bee-eater in Lincolnshire, 511 
Bees, Ants, and Wasps, observations on, 
410 
‘Belfast Lough,’ Patterson’s (review), 372 
Bell, Mr., of Selborne, death of, 148, 224 
Bercheria, Ornithologia, 313 
Bernicla brenta, 168, 214 
Bird-life in Tchuski-land, 364 
‘Bird-Life, Glimpses of’ (review), 494 
Bird-shop, a Pompeian, 60 
Birds’ feathers coming off in winter, 298 
Birds, two species of laying in the same 
nest, 59; shore, in East- and Mid- 
Lothian, 69; rare, at Harwich, 69; and 
the weather, 69; and mammals intro- 
duced into New Zealand, 116; of York- 
shire, 144; report on the migration of, 
in the autumn of 1879, 161; unknown, 
200; rare, in Oxfordshire, 259 ; colour 
sense in, 407; from Port Leopold, 482; 
yare, and the autumnal migration, 489 ; 
autumn migration of at Cromer, 510; 
common, varieties of, 514 
‘Birds, British, Yarrell’s History of’ (re- 
view), 485 
‘Birds, Fishes, and Cetacea commonly 
frequenting Belfast Lough’ (review), 
372 
‘Birds found in Europe and North 
America, a Comparative Catalogue of’ 
(review), 416 
‘Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands’ 
(review), 374 
‘ Birds of Nottinghamshire, a Descriptive 
List of the’ (review), 374 
‘ Biologia Centrali-Americana’ (review), 76 
Bittern, 52, 336, 340; at Leiston, 68; in 
West Cumberland, 222 
Blackbird, 165, 174, 193 
Blackeap in Co. Meath, 488; in Iveland, 
512 
Boar-fish, change of colour in the, and 
the growth of the Turbot, 383 
Breeding of the Tufted Duck in Notting- 
hamshire, 141; supposed, of the Scaup 
in Ireland, 142, 245; of Woodcock in 
Hertfordshire, 301; of Gannet in con- 
finement, 363; of Crossbill near York, 
403; of Hawfinch near Leeds, 404; of 
Turtle Dove near York, 405; of the 
Shoveller in the Stewartry of Kirkeud- 
bright, 406 
Brewer, the late Dr. T. M., 115 
‘Bright Feathers; or, some North-Ame- 
rican Birds of Beauty’ (review), 495 
British Association, Address to the Bio- 
logical section of, 417 
Bullhead, Greenland, at Brighton and 
Southend, 147; at Brighton, 148 
Bunting, Black-headed, 336 
» Lapland, 126 
a Snow, 68, 124, 178, 195; at 
Cromer, in May, 301 
Bustard, Great, in Cornwall, 25; in Jer- 
sey, 25; in Essex, 26, 296; in Dorset- 
shire, 110; in Essex and Cambridge- 
shire, 110; correction of an error, 144; 
in France during the winter 1879-80, 
252; attempted domestication of the, 
254 
Bustard, Little, 51; at Eastbourne, 110 
Butcher-bird, ‘“‘ Wariangle” and “ Nyn- 
murder” names for, 300 
Butterfly, on a supposed polymorphic, 
from India, 224 
Buzzard, Common, 49 
,,  Rough-legged,in Wiltshire,143 ; 
near Blackburn, 488 
Calidvis arenaria, 204 
Cane-borers, note on, 450 
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