CONTENTS. 
Pomatorhine skuas and black 
guillemots at Flamborough, 4667 ; 
The redbacked shrike a butcher, 
4691; American whitewinged 
crossbill in the North Sea, The 
whitebacked woodpecker a Bri- 
tish bird, 4695; Plumage of the | 
stilt, Green sandpiper at North- 
repps, Young razorbills and guil- 
lemots, 4697; Redthroated diver, 
Audacity of the common skua, | 
4698; The value of Natural- 
History specimens, Bird’s nest in 
Kemp- WELCH, E. B. 
‘Tenacity of life in sharks, 4460 
Knicut, V. 
Stock dove in Northumberland, 
4500 
Lreee, W. H. 
Little gull in summer plumage in 
February, 4459 
| Luoyp, W. A. 
The Royal Aquarium and Winter 
Garden Society at Westminster, 
4301 
the fleece of a living sheep, 4720; | 
Supposed occurrence of the Jug- 
ger falcon (falco Juggur, Gray) 
off the coast of Yorkshire, 4721; 
Waxwings without wax, 4723; 
The last native great bustard, 
The roseate down of bustards, | 
Pratincole (Glareola pratincola | 
(Linn.), 4724; Sun-fish at Over- 
strand, in Norfolk, 4725 
Haast, Jutius, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Researches and excavations carried | 
on in and near the Moa-bone 
Point Cave, Sumner Road, in the ) 
year 1872, 4513, 4554, 4643 
HADFIELD, Capt. Henry 
Instinct of birds: olfactory power 
of the vultures, 4373; Basking 
shark off Shanklin Chine, Isle of 
Wight, 4415; Spring migrants, | 
4495, 4537, 4623; Additional par- | 
ticulars of Montagu’s harrier 
breeding in the Isle of Wight, 
4672; Birds and specimens no- 
ticed during a short stay in 
France, Switzerland and Italy, 
4676; On the migration of birds, 
4711; A monstrosity, 4720 
Hamet, Ecpert D. 
Cuckoos congregating: pigeons lay- 
ing in a magpie’s nest, 4573 
Hartine, J. E., F.L.S. 
Colour of the shell in Helix po- 
matia, 4705 
HERBERT, W. H. 
Marsh harrier near Newbury, 4381 
Hopexinson, J. B. 
Brown snipe near Southport, 4341 
Hucuess, W. R., F.L.8. 
A visit to the Gouliot Caves at 
Sark, 4309; Large salmon, 4460 
Humbe, W. J, 
Stock dove in Northumberland, 
4573 
| MatHew, GeRvAsE F., R.N., F.L.S. 
Large sturgeon at Torquay, 4301; 
Ornithological notes from Dart- 
mouth, 4325 
| MatHew, Rey. Murray A., M.A. 
Flight of a male peregrine at an 
old male hen harrier, 4296; Rock 
dove at Instow, 4299; Pomator- 
rhine skua at Instow, 4800; The 
| Somersetshire moors in the 
spring, 4532; Rare birds in North 
Devon, 4720 
| Mors, A. G., F.L.S., M.R.I.A. 
| Notice of a gigantic cephalopod 
(Dinoteuthis proboscideus) which 
| ’ was stranded at Dingle, in Kerry, 
two hundred years ago, 4526; 
Some account of the gigantic 
squid (Architeuthis Dux) lately 
captured off Boftin Island, Con- 
nemara, 4569 
Newman, Epwarp, F.L.S., &c. 
Quadripare, a newly-associated 
group of birds, 4296; Shore lark 
near Bideford, 4837; Bitterns in 
England, Ireland and Wales, 
4341; The Arctic Expedition, 
4383; The dokos of South Africa; 
explanatory note, 4445 ; Obituary 
notice of the late Dr. Gray, 4466; 
** Telescope fishes,” 4501 
Newton, Prot. ALFRED, M.A., F.R.S. 
Notes on birds which have been 
found in Greenland, 4589; On 
certain neglected subjects of Or- 
nithological investigation, 4637 
| NicHouus, H. 
Albinism or leucotism in birds, 
4652; Singular freak of a herring 
eull, 4698 
NIcHOLLs, RIcHARD P. 
Boar-fish at Torcross, 4460; Merlin 
killed against telegraph wires, 
