CONTENTS. 
‘Polyzoa, British Marine, a History of’ 
(review), 308 
Popular names of animals, 113 
Porphyrio, Green-backed, 339 
Porpoises chasing Mackarel, 443 
Procellaria glacialis, 210 
cf pelagica, 210 
Procellaride, 185 
Ptarmigan, Rock, 126, 214 
Pteropods obtained in Ross-shire, 28 
Pufiin, 169, 211, 358 
Puffinus major, 210 
Rabbits in New Zealand, enforced de- 
struction of, 442 
Rail, Water, 168, 337 
Rallus aquaticus, 168 
Raptorial migrants. 341 
Raven, 126; in the West of England, 144 
Ray, Eagle, off Plymouth, 262 
Razorbill, 212; call-note of the young, 402 
Redbreast, 175; migration of, 363 
Redstart, Black, in Co. Waterford, 221; 
near Yarmouth, 340 
Redwing, 50, 174; song of, and the cry 
of the White and Brown Owls, 379 
Regulus cristatus, 164, 191 
Rissa tridactyla, 200, 207 
Robin, 164, 191 
Rodd, Edward Hearle, ‘The Birds of 
Cornwall and the Scilly Islands’ (re- 
view), 3874 
Rodd, the late Mr. Edward Hearle, 113 
Rook, 166, 181 
Rookeries in London, 515 
Rooks in the Temple Gardens, 143 
Salmon disease, 260 
Salmonide, the origin of varieties in, 133 
Sanderling, 204 
Sandpiper, 167, 197 
mn Bartram’s, in Lincolnshire, 508 
¥ Curlew, reported discovery of 
the eggs of the, 104 
Sandpiper, Green, in Norfolk, in July, 404 
Saxicola wnanthe, 124, 164 
Scaup, supposed breeding of in Ireland, 
142, 255 
Seolopax rusticola, 167, 183 
Scomber punctatus on the Cornish coast, 
303 
Scoter, Common, in Cambridgeshire, 258 
‘Scotland, H'auna of’ (review), 157 
Sea-fowl, 199 
Seal, Great Grey, in Killala Bay, Co. Mayo, 
358 
Shade-fish, or Maigre, off the Devonshire 
coast, 449 
Shearwater, Arctic, 210 
., Great, its position while at 
rest, 110 
iz Manx, inland, 144 
Shearwaters, 71 
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Sheep, living, Parrot performing a sur- 
gical operation on, 57 
Sheldrake, 199 
Shoveller, 335; breeding in the Stewartry 
of Kirkcudbright, 406 
‘Shrewsbury, Botany, Ornithology, and 
Geology of’ (review), 158 
Shrike, Great Grey, singing powers of, 70; 
in the West of England, 144 
Shrike, Red-backed, subcutaneous worms 
in, 487 
Siskin, 166; nesting in Bedfordshire, 259, 
364 
Siskins breeding in confinement, 61 
Skua, Buffon’s, 208, 365 
» Great, at Brighton, 143 
;, Pomatorhine, 207; on the Durham 
and Yorkshire coasts, 511 
; Richardson’s, 207 
Skuas and some other birds observed in 
the Shetland Islands, 1; extraordinary 
arrival of on the Yorkshire coast, 18; 
in Yorkshire, 21; off the coasts of 
Devon and Cornwall, 21; Fulmars, &c., 
340 
;, Pomatorhine, in Somersetshire, 
19; in the Bristol Channel, 20; and 
other birds in Bedfordshire, 108 
Slug, Shell, in Sussex, 367 
Smew, 340 
Snipe, 168, 183, 197; and Woodcocks, 
migration of, 65 
,, Common, large russet variety of, 23 
»  Solitary,in Northamptonshire, 444 
Somateria mollissima, 213 
a spectabilis, 213 
Sounds, animal, 54 
Sparrow, House, 186 
a Tree, 179 
Spoonbill in Cornwall, 513; the trachea 
of the, 488, 514 
Spoonbills, a visit to the colony of, near 
Amsterdam, 457 
Spiralis retroversus, 28 
Starfish, Knotty Cushion, 72 
Starling, 50, 166, 180, 194; variety of, 221; 
nesting habits of, 366 
Starlings versus Sky Larks, 403 
Stercorarius catarrhactes, 169 
Pe crepidatus, 207 
i parasiticus, 208 
es pomatorhinus, 207 
Sterna hirundo, 206 
Stilt, Black-winged, near Eastbourne, 300 
Stint, Temminck’s, 52 
Stoat, habits of the, 54 
Stoats, white, 104 
Strepsilas interpres, 128, 197 
Sturnus vulgaris, 166, 180 
Sula bassana, 200 
Swallow, 163, 182, 190 
Swallows, white, a brood of, 24; the de- 
parting, 448 
