x CONTENTS. 
Carduelis spinus, 166 
Cat, Wild, in the West Highlands, 218; 
hunting the, 251; and other indi- 
genous Mammals of Scotland, 251 
Chaffinch, 179 
Charadriidx, 182 
Charadrius pluvialis, 167 
Chiffchaff remaining in England during 
the winter, 144 . 
Cod, large-headed, at the mouth of the 
Thames, 26 
Colin, Virginian, in Norfolk, 26 
Colymbus septentrionalis, 184 
Cormorant, 212, 340; with white feathers 
in the tail, 3866 
‘Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, Birds 
of’ (review), 374 
Corvus corax, 126 
»  cornix, 181 
»  frugilegus, 166, 181 
x» monedula, 181 
Crab, Masked, unusual assemblage of the, 
262 
» Northern Stone, 72 
Crake, Corn, 198; carrying its young, 111 
+ Spotted, at Leiston, 68 
‘Crayfish, the; an Introduction to the 
Study of Zoology’ (review), 153 
Crex pratensis, 198 
Crossbill breeding near York, 403, 515 
Crow, Hooded, 181 
Crustacea from the Greenland Seas, 27 
Cuckoo, 182; blue eggs of, 361, 400; note 
on, 400; average date of arrival in 
England, 447 
Cuckoos denuded of feathers, 257, 298 
Cuckoos’ eggs, colour of, 399 
Cuculus canorus, 182 
Curlew, 167, 183, 197; in Oxfordshire, 142 
»  Esquimaux, in Kincardineshire, 
485, 516 
Cypselus apus, 163, 182 
Daw, 181 
Deal-fish on the Norfolk coast, 15 
Deer, domestication of, 442 
‘Deer Stalking, a Handbook of’ (review), 
412 
Delphinus albirostris, 220 
Desfontaine’s ‘ Birds of Barbary’ (review), 
375; note on, 405 
‘ Dictionary, International, for Naturalists 
and Sportsmen’ (review), 40 
Dipper returning to its old nest, £06, 448 
Diver, Black-throated, 53 
» Great Northern, 337 
»  Red-throated, 53, 184, 340 
‘Dogges, English, the diversities, the 
names, the natures, and the properties’ 
(review), 413 
Dolphin, White-beaked, 420 
Dove, Turtle, breeding near York, 405 
Doves, Stock, breeding in Magpies’ nests, 
143 
Duck, Eider, 199, 213, 340 
» Golden-eye, in Norfolk in July, 404 
»  King,213; atthe Farne Islands, 514 
» Long-tailed, 212, 339 
»  Pintail, 337 
» ‘Tufted, breeding in Nottingham. 
shire, 141 
» Wild, 199 
Ducks, 169 
Earthworms, spread of disease by the 
agency of, 409 
Eggs of the Curlew Sandpiper, reported 
discovery of the, 104; in a Thrush’s 
nest, unusual number of, 259; of Water- 
hen, unusual nest of, 299; blue, of 
Cuckoo, 861, 400; Great Auks’, sale 
of, 865; Cuckoos’, colour of, 399 
Entomological Society of London, pro- 
ceedings of, 31, 120, 227, 265, 807, 450, 
489, 519 
Epping Forest and County of Essex 
Naturalists’ Field Club, 72, 151 
Erythaca rubecula, 164 
Erythrinus, Couch’s, on the Cornwall 
coast, 449 
Falco candicans, 121 
Falcon, Greenland, 121; in Co. Donegal, 
406 
Falcon, Peregrine, 49; near Windsor, 70; 
in Hampshire, 141; in Oxfordshire, 
142; in Bedfordshire, 221 
Falconidx, 287 
Falcons, long-winged, 289 
- Peregrine, on Salisbury Cathe- 
dral spire, 300 
Fauna of Ireland, a German view of the, 
293, 343, 888; of Belfast Lough, 305 
‘Fauna of Norfolk, observations on the, 
and more particularly on the District 
of the Broads’ (review), 33 
‘Fauna of Scotland, the; with special re- 
ference to Clydesdale and the Western 
District’ (review), 157 
Feathers, Cuckoos denuded of, 257, 298; 
birds’, coming off in winter, 298; white, 
in tail of Cormorant, 366 
Ferret and Polecat, 396 
Fieldfare, 174, 192 
Fieldfares, scarcity of, 71 
Field notes on the Reed and Marsh War- 
blers, 377 
Finches, 194 
Fish, on the air-bladders of, 97 
Fishes, fresh-water, of India, notes on, 
431, 461 
a sea, food of, 304 
Flamborough, the cliffs at, 365 
Flycatcher, 174 
= Pied, at the Lizard, 448 
Flying-fish, flight ot the, 471 
Food of sea-fishes, 304 
