x CONTENTS. 
Blackbird, 4295, 4327; 
4538, 4691; white, 4625 
Blackbirds, pied, near Norwich, 4337 
Blackcap, does the male have a black 
head during the winter? 4722 
Black wood-hen, 4486 
Boar-fish at Torcross, 4460 
Boas, 4854 
Bones of ruminants in Medway 
Saltings, 4335 
Books received, 4585, 4627, 4668 
Brambling, 4363 
Bream, Ray’s, at Penzance, 4542 
Bubo capensis, 4358, 4419 
Buceros Buccinator, 4393 
coronatus, 4392 
Bunting, Lapland, at Brighton, 4695 
snow, 4295, 4669 
Buntings, snow, nesting in confine- 
ment, 4290 
Bush hunt in Natal, 4551 
Bustard, great, the last native, 4726 
little, near the Lizard, 4339 ; 
near Looe, Cornwall, id.; in the 
Isle of Wight, id.; at Walton-on- 
the-Naze, id.; in Norfolk, 4340, 
4369, 4421; in Essex and Cornwall, 
4369 
Bustards, 4441; the roseate down of, 
4726 
Buzzard, 4294, 4710 
variety of, 
Camel in Australia, 4618 
Camels reared in the United States, 
4493 
Cannabina linota, 4434 
Capercaillie in Nottinghamshire, 4338, 
4382; contents of crop of, 4338 
Caprimulgus Natalensis, 4614 
Carpophaga Nove-Zealandix, 4483 
Cassowaries, descriptive list of the, 
4685 
Cassowary, Australian, 4686 
—————_ Beceari’s, id. 
Bennett’s, 4687 
common, 4686 
one-wattled, 4687 
painted-necked, id. 
Papuan, id. 
— Westerman’s, id. 
Cat, wild, near Ringwood, 4376; in 
Hertfordshire, 4377 
Catocala Fraxini at Eastbourne, 4626 
Cats, wild, 4453 
Caves, Gouliot, at Sark, a visit to, 4309 
Cephalopod, gigantic, stranded at 
Dingle, in Kerry, two hundred 
— 
_ 
years ago, 4526; the monster de- 
scribed, 4530 
Cerambycide, 4348 
Cercopithecus callitrichus, 4443 
——————_ Petaurista, 4444 
Certhiparus albicilla, 4478 
Ceryle maxima, 4475 
Chacma, 4442 
Chaffinch nesting in confinement, 
4289 
Charadrius obscurus, 4484 
Chick, malformation in the head of a, 
4665 
Chiffchaff in February near Ply- 
mouth, 4381 
Chrysochloris capensis, 4476 
Chrysococcyx lucidus, 4482 
Civets, 4510 
Clotho arietina, 43889 
Cockchaffer, colouring matter from 
the, 4428 
Collection, the Rudston, 4407; the 
Strickland, 4408 
Columba arquatrix, 4615 
——- Guinea, id. 
Coot, 4328; near Ringwood, 4458 
Cormorant, 4327 
Corvus albicollis, 4475 
capensis, 4476 
scapulatus, id. 
Coues, Elliott, ‘Birds of the North- 
West,’ 4586 
Crake, Baillon’s, 4292, 4334 
Cranes, 4509 
Creeper, 4478 
wall, at Stratton Hall, 4664 
Crocodiles, 4469 
Crookbill, 4484 
Crop of a capercaillie, contents of, 4338 
Crossbill, American whitewinged, in 
the North Sea, 4695 
—— common, 4433 
Crow, carrion, 4328; redwing killed 
by a, 43881; or ring-necked, 4475 
— cornland, 4476 
— hooded, 4294, 4879, 4429; at- 
tacking partridges, 4420 
—— orange-wattled, 4479 
Crows attacking small birds, 4456 
Cuckoo, 4588; young, and robin—a 
case of adoption, 4695 
longtailed, 4482 
Cuckoos congregating, 4573 
Curlew, 4327; in Nottinghamshire, 
4382 
Cuttle-fish, enormous, off Boffin 
Island, on the coast of Connemara, 
4502 
