xii 
Martins in December, 72 
Merganser, Red-breasted, 200 
Mergulus alle, 212 
Migrants, departure of, as observed in the 
vicinity of Norwich and Cromer, 338; 
raptorial, 341 
Migration of Woodcocks and Snipe, 65; 
unusual, of Jays, 71; recent, of Skua 
Gulls, 90; of birds in the autumn of 
1879, report on the, 161; of Redbreast, 
363; autumnal, 485; on the East coast 
of England in the autumn of 1880, 486 ; 
autumn, of birds at Cromer, 510 
Migratory waders, 341 
Mormon fratercula, 169 
*‘ Mormonidés, Recherches sur la Mue du 
Bee des Oiseaux de la famille des’ 
(review), 270 
Mouse, Harvest, in Suffolk, 57 
Mullet, Lesser Grey, on the Northum- 
berland coast, 448 
Muscieapa grisola, 174 
Names for the Butcher-bird: ‘ Nyn- 
murder” and “ Wariangle,” 300; popu- 
lar, of animals, 113 
‘ Nature cared for and Nature uncared for; 
a Lecture on Ornithology’ (review), 80 
Nest, two species of birds laying in the 
same, 59; of Thrush, unusual number 
of eggs in, 259; of eggs of Waterhen, 
unusual, 299 
Nesting community, a strange, 301 
Nests, Magpies’, Stock Doves breeding in, 
143 
Nesting of the Nuthatch as observed in 
Norfolk, 41; of the Woodcock, 63; late, 
of the Barn Owl and Waterhen in 
Norfolk, 71; of the Common Wren, 
142; of Siskin in Bedfordshire, 259, 
364; of Hobby in Essex, 259; of 
Woodcock in Lancashire, 302: of Mon- 
tagu’s Harrier near York, 362; habits 
of the Starling, 366; of Herons at 
Hempstead, Norfolk, 8366; of Montagu’s 
Harrier, 404, 445, 512; late, of Night- 
jar, 405; of Nightingale in Hast York- 
shire, 406 
Nesting-place of the Wheatear, unusual, 
301 
Nidification of Reed Warbler, 444 
Nightingale, nesting of in East York- 
shire, 406 
Nightjar, late nesting of, 406 
Norfolk, Fauna of, and of the Broad dis- 
trict, 33 
Nottinghamshire Birds, 374 
Numenius arquatus, 167, 183 
= pheopus, 197 
Nuthatch, nesting of the, as observed in 
Norfolk, 41 
Oar-fish, Banks’, near Whitby, 145 
| Plover, 167, 196 
CONTENTS. 
Ophiurid, on a Synthetic Type of, from 
the North Atlantic, 29 
Ornithological notes from Devon and 
Cornwall, 46, 247; from Guernsey, 360; 
from Lowestoft, 22; from Norfolk for 
1878 and 1879, 325,408; from Norfolk 
and Suffolk, 49; from North Lancea- 
shire, 241; from North Lincolnshire in 
the autumn of 1879, 6; from Orkney, 
297; from S.W. Sutherland, 502; from 
the County Mayo, 129; from the Isle 
of Wight, 109; from West Cumberland, 
109; from Yorkshire, 353 
‘ Ornithologia Bercheria,’ Dr. Lamb’s, 313 
‘Ornithologia Britannica,’ Tunstall’s, 159 
Otocorys alpestris, 176 
Ouzel, Ring, 165, 174, 339 
Owl, 190 
» Barn, 49; 
folk, 71 
Long-eared, does it hoot? 487 
» Tawny, supposed occurrence of in 
Treland, 254 
Tengmalm’s, in Lincolnshire, 511 
immigration of in 
in Sussex, 140; in 
late nesting of in Nor- 
Owls, Long-eared, 
Wiltshire, 106; 
Guernsey, 220 
White, ery of, 446 
», White and Brown, ery of, and song 
of the Redwing, 379 
| Oystercatcher, 197 
agophila eburnea, 206 
Parrot performing a surgical operation 
on living sheep, 57 
Partridge, Red-legged, in Guernsey, 257, 
397 
Passer domesticus, 180 
»  montanus, 179 
Peewit, 51 
Pellets, Gulls ejecting, 362 
| Petrel, 169 
Fulmar, 71, 210, 340 
» Storm, 199, 210 
Phalacrocorax carbo, 212 
Phalarope, Grey, 340; in Lincolnshire, 
511; near Kingsbridge, Devon, 515 
‘i Red-necked, 204 
Phalaropus hyperboreus, 204 
Picus (major ?), 166 
Pilchards, late stay of on the Cornish 
coast, 112 
Plectrophanes lapponica, 126 
nivalis, 124, 178 
” 
Kentish, 51; habits of the, 138 
» Norfolk, 51 
Pochard breeding in Ireland, 255; at Sur- 
lingham, 339 
Polar Expedition, notes on the Ornitho- 
logy of the British, 121, 204 
Polecat near Leeds, 251; end Ferret, 396; 
in North Oxfordshire, 508 
