XIV 
Owl, short-eared, 4719 
—— snowy, nesting in confinement, 
4573; further note on the young 
of, 4663 
swamp, 4471 
Owls, 4470 
Paauw, 4441 
Parrakeet, bluewinged, 4549 
Parrakeets and locusts in Australia, 
4456 
Parrot, small, of Natal, 4691 
Parrots, 4549 
Partridge, extraordinary vitality in a, 
4299 
redlegged, 4710 
——— white, near Kingsbridge, 
4696 
Partridges, hooded crow attacking, 
4420 
Peregrine, male, flight of at an old 
male hen harrier, 4296 
Peristera chalcospilos, 4616 
larvata, 4617 
Petrel, fulmar, in Mount’s Bay, 4459 
storm, at Formby, Lanca- 
shire, 4300 
Petroica macrocephala, 4478 
Phalacrocorax capensis, 4512 
Phalarope, gray, in Nottinghamshire, 
4342 
rednecked, 4289, 4292, 
4293 
Physalia pelagica on the Coast of 
Devon, 4668 
Pigeon, 4482 
black, 4615 
green, id. 
slate-coloured, id. 
wood, 4295, 4828, 4864; late 
breeding of, 4696; turtle dove 
adopted by, 4723 
Pigeons resting on trees, 4499 ; laying 
in magpie’s nest, 4573 
Pike, large, 4574 
Pipit, tawny, 4456; at Brighton, 4694 
Platycercus, 4482 
Ploceus Oryze, 4397 
spilonotus, 4396 
Plotus Anhinga, 4512 (read P. Levail- 
lantii, 4553) ; 
Plover, 4484 
green, 4363 
Kentish, 4719 
masked, 4485 
stilt, 4631, 4634 
Pochards and other fowl nesting in 
Norfolk, 4634 
CONTENTS. 
Podica Mozambicana, 4513 
Porcupine, 4351 
Pratincole, 4726 
Prionide, 4347 
Psittacula passerina, 4549, 4664 
Psittacus Levaillantii, 4549 
Puff-adders, 4389 
Pythons, 4354 
Quadripare, 4296 
Quail-hawk, 4409 
Rabbit, rock, 43895 
Rail, water, 4409 
‘‘Rambles in Search of Shells, Land 
and Freshwater,” 4627 
Rat, cane, 4444; killing its own 
species, 4662 
Rats and gas-pipes, 4378 
Ray, electrical, on the Cornish coast, 
4500 
Razorbill, variety of, 4382 
Razorbills, young, 4697 
Redpoll, lesser, near 
4382 
Redshank, spotted, 4632; in Norfolk, 
4666 
Redwing killed by a crow, 4381 
Redwings, migration of, 4722 
Reeve, 4669 
‘Reprint of Boddaert’s Table des 
Planches Enluminées, d'Histoire 
Naturelle,” 4438 
Rhipidura, 4479 
Rivers, Thames and Blackwater, 
notes of a cruise at the mouths of, 
4451 
Roach, large, in the Lea, 4626 
Robin, moulting freak of, 4297; and 
young cuckoo—a case of adoption, 
4695 
Rook, 4295, 4406 
pied, 4421 
Rooks, innocent (?), 4538; gigantic 
buff-balls pecked by, 4665 
Rorqual, common, on shore at Hap- 
pisburgh, on the Norfolk coast, 
4418, 4455 
Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden 
Society at Westminster, 4301 
Ruff, 4363, 4631 
Ruminants, bones of, in Medway 
Saltings, 4334 
Ringwood, 
Salmon, large, 4460 
Sandpiper, common, 4327, 4328 
green, at Northrepps, 4697 
purple, 4295, 4332 
