CONTENTS. xi 
Fratercula arctica, 211 
Fringilla ccelebs, 179 
Fulmars, Skuas, &c., 340 
Gadwall, 53 
Gallinago media, 183 
5 scolopacina, 168 
‘Gamekeeper, the, at Home: Sketches 
of Natural History and Rural Life’ 
(review), 36 
Gannet at Llanberis, 363 
» breeding in confinement, 363 
Geese, Grey, 168 
» Wild, 198 
Glasgow Natural History Society, pro- 
ceedings of, 269 
Goldcrest, 164, 191 
Goosander on the Exe, 68; in the West 
of England, 144 
Goose, Bernicle, 168, 337 
» Brent, 214 
» Egyptian, 52 
» Grey-lag, 336 
» solan, 200 
Grebe, Great Crested, 337, 339; near 
Leeds, 514 
fi Sclavonian, 337 
Greenfinch, 50 
‘Guide to the Botany, Ornithology, and 
Geology of Shrewsbury and its Vi- 
cinity’ (review), 158 
Guillemot, 169; call-note of young, 402 
Ay Black, 211, 339 
i Brunnich’s, 211 
Gull, Black-headed, early assumption of 
summer plumage in the, 106; young 
of, 337 
» Glaucous, 207, 340 
» Greater Black-backed, 206 
» Iceland, 207; and other sea-birds 
in West Cumberland, 221 
» Ivory, 206; young of, 484 
» Little, 71, 339 
Gulls ejecting pellets, 362 
» sea, 200 
» Skua, and their recent migration, 90 
Habits of the Stoat, 54; of the Kentish 
Plover, 138 
Hematopus ostralegus, 197 
Hare, curious accident to a, 36 
Harelda glacialis, 212 
Harrier, Hen, in London, 108 
35 Montagu’s, nesting near York, 
362; nesting of, 404, 445, 512 
Hawfinch, 50, 336; breeding near Leeds, 
404 
Hawk, 190 
‘ Hawking in Norfolk,’ 33 
Hawks and hawking (with plates), 273 
Hedgesparrow, 192 
Heron, 167, 197 
» Night, 52 
Heron, Purple, 52 
Heronries in Ireland, 514 
Herons nesting at Hempstead, Norfolk, 
366 
Hirundo rustica, 163, 182, 190 
- urbica, 163, 191 
Hobby nesting in Kssex, 259 
Hoopoe, 50, 338; near Basingstoke, 298 ; 
near Chichester, 299 
Hoopoes in Sussex and Kent, 299 
Houting on the Sussex coast, 146 
Hunting the Wild Cat, 251 
Immigration of Long-eared Owls in Wilt- 
shire, 106; in Sussex, 140 
India, fresh-water fishes of, 431 
Insects destroyed by flowers, 265 
‘Insects, Injurious, Notes of Observations 
of’ (review), 272 
Jays, unusual migration of, 71 
King Eider, 213; at the Farne Islands, 
514 
Kittiwake, 200, 207 
Knot, 205 
Lagopus rupestris. 126 
Lapwing, 167, 196 
Lark, 195 
» Crested, in Cornwall, 302 
» Shore, 177 ; 
» Sky, 166, 177 
Larks, Shore, 339, 3840, 341; 
Brighton, 488 
» Sky, versus Starlings, 403 
Larus glaucus, 207 
» leucopterus, 207 
» Marinus, 206 
Lerwick, natural history notes from, 302 
Linnean Society of London, -proceedings 
of, 27, 74, 115, 149, 228, 263, 367, 516 
Linnet, 179, 195 
Linota cannabina, 179 
,,  flavirostris, 179 
Lizard, Common, on the period and in- 
tervals at which it casts its skin. 408 
near 
Mackarel, early arrival of on the Cornish 
coast, 112; Porpoises chasing, 443 
Magpie, 336; three-legged, 71 
Magpies’ nests, Stock Doves breeding in, 
143 
Maigre, or Shade-fish, off the Devonshire 
coast, 449 
Mammals and birds from Port Leopold, 
482 
Marten, Pine, in Ireland, 18; in Cum- 
berland, 219; recent occurrence of in 
Lincolnshire, 237 
Martin, 168, 191 
Martins, House, tenacity of life in young, 
401 
