CONTENTS. 
Huddersfield, 4879; killed against 
telegraph wires, 4690 
Merrin, Joseph, ‘ Lepidopterist’s Ca- 
lendar,’ 4585 
Migrants, summer, late appearance 
of, 6293; winter, and the frost, 
4367; spring, 4495, 4537; summer, 
4632 
Migration, spring, at the Land’s End 
district, 4494; of redwings, 4722 
Migratory waders, 4292 
Moa-bone Point Cave, Sumner Road, 
researches and excavations carried 
on in and near in the year 1872, 
4518, 4554, 4643; geological fea- 
tures, 4514; position of the cave, 
4516; contents of the cave, 4517, 
4554; list of objects found in the 
Lower or Moa-hunter deposits, 
4561; in the Upper or Maori de- 
posits, 4563; excavations among 
the sand-hills outside the cave, 
4643; objects collected near the 
Kitchen Middens of the Moa- 
hunters, amongst the sand-dunes 
near, 4645 
Mole, golden, 4476 
Moles and mole-catching, 4493 
Molly-mawk, 4487 
Monitors, 4469 
Monkey, green, 4443 
Monkeys, id. 
Monstrosity, 4720 
Moorhen and snipe feeding on bread, 
4457 
Moors, Somersetshire, in the spring, 
4532 
Mooruk, 4687 
_ More-pork, 4477 
Moulting freak of a robin, 4297 
Mouse eating flies, 4571 
Museum, Bristol, 4406; York, 4407 
Museums, a word about, 4406 
Natural History of South Africa, 
notes on, 43849, 4889, 4441, 4469, 
4509, 4549, 4612 
Nelly, white, 4486 
Neomorpha Gouldi, 4477 
Nest, thrush’s, pied wagtails building 
on, 4291; whitethroat’s, twelve feet 
from the ground, 4298; nightin- 
gale’s, in a fir tree, 4381; thrush’s, 
curious, 4456; magpie’s, stock dove 
in, 4539; pigeon laying in a mag- 
pie’s, 4573; bird’s, in the fleece of 
a living sheep, 4720; a turtle dove’s 
utilised by a wood pigeon, 4723 
Xili 
Nesting of chaffinch in confinement, 
4289; of turtle doves in confine- 
ment, 4290; of snow buntings in 
confinement, id.; of siskin near 
Durham, 4420; of teal in Hamp- 
shire, 4457; of snowy owl in con- 
finement, 4573; of golden oriole in 
Kent, 4624; of pochards and other 
fowlin Norfolk, 4634; of Montagu’s 
harrier in the Isle of Wight, 4653 
Nestor meridionalis, 4482 
Nests of blue tits and missel thrushes, 
4291 
Newton, Alfred, M.A., F.R.S., ‘ Zoo- 
logy,’ 4439 
Nightingale near Huddersfield, 4429 
Nightingale’s nest in a fir tree, 4381 
Notes from Castle Eden, 4329, 4401; 
from Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 4536; on 
birdsnesting in Kent, 4565; on 
birds which have been found in 
Greenland, 4589 
Notices, critical, of a work intituled 
‘A Catalogue of the Birds of Nor- 
thumberland and Durham, by John 
Hancock,’ 4429 
Numbfish on the Cornish coast, 4500 
Ocydromus fuscus, 4486 
Oriole, golden, at the Land’s End 
and in Scilly, 4499 ; near Bradford, 
4623; nesting in Kent, 4624 
Ornithological and entomological in- 
terruptions to telegraphy in India, 
4336 
Ornithological notes from Norfolk, 
4289, 4366, 4629; from North Lin- 
colnshire, 4294, 4361, 4488, 4617, 
4669, 4709 ; from Dartmouth 4325 ; 
from Somersetshire and Devon- 
shire, 43822, 4671, 4716; from De- 
vonshire, Cornwall, &c., 4370, 4448, 
4490, 4568, 4635 
Ornithology and climate of Achill, 
45384 
Orthonyx albicillus, 4478 
— ochrocephala, zd. 
Ortygometra affinis, 4486 
—————_ tabuensis, zd. 
Osprey, 4328, 4718; in Suffolk, 4690 ; 
in Hampshire, 7d. 
Ossifraga alba, 4486 
Otis afroides, 4441 
Kori, id. 
Otter, 4389 
Ow!, barn, 4330 
common eared, 4471 
— eagle, 4353 
