CONTENTS. 
XV 
Saxby, Henry L., M.D. (the late), ' ‘Statistique Scientifique d’Hure et 
‘ Birds of Shetland,’ 4269 
Sea elephants from Kerguelen’s Land 
at Berlin, 4659 
Seal on the Norfolk coast, 4652 
Secretary bird, 4613 
Serpentarius reptilivorous, 4613 
Shark, basking, off Shanklin Chine, | 
| Sun-fish in Fleet Bay, Galloway, 
Isle of Wight, 4415 
Greenland, off the Suffolk 
coast, 4424 
spinous, in Mount’s Bay, 
4501 
Sharks, teeth of, 4344; tenacity of 
life in, 4460 
Shearwater, greater, large number 
off the coasts of Devon and Corn- 
wall, 4300 
Sheep, living, bird’s nest in the fleece 
of, 4720 
Shieldrake in the Feroe Islands, 
4383 ; near Ringwood, 4500 
Shrike, great gray, 4334 
lesser gray, 4633, 4691 
—— redbacked, a butcher, 4691, 
4721 
Siskin near Ringwood, 4382; nesting 
near Durham, 4420 
Skua, pomatorhine, at Instow, 4300; 
at Flamborough, 4667 
— Richardson’s, at Formby, Lan- 
cashire, 4300 
common, audacity of, 4698 
Skuas off the Coast, 4293 
Slow-worm abroad on the 26th of 
December, 4343 
Snake in Ireland, 4704 
Snake-eating snake, 4625 
Snakes, 4354, 4389 ; fruit-eating, 4541, 
4574 
Snipe, brown, near Southport, 4341; 
and moorhen feeding on bread, 
4457 
—— great, 4635 
solitary, in Norfolk, 4665 
Snipes, abundance of, 4366 
Soko hunting, 4358; young, 4360 
Soko or doko of Central and South 
Africa, 4357 
Sparrowhawk, 4412; and thrush, 
4325 
Specimens, Natural-History, value 
of, 4720 
Squid, gigantic, lately captured off 
Boffin Island, Connemara, 4569 
Starling, 4488 
Starlings, do they rear more than 
one brood in a year? 4630 
Loire—Lepidopteres,’ 4668 
Sterna alba, 4487 
Stilt, plumage of, 4697 
Stint, Temminck’s, 4334 
Stoat near Ringwood, 4492 
Stonechat, 43830, 4332 
Sturgeon, large, at Torquay, 4301 
4725 ; at Overstrand, in Norfolk, id. 
large, off the North of Scot- 
land, id. 
Surmullet, large, off Penzance, 4668 ; 
4704 
Swallow, chimney, 4403; habits of 
in the United States, 4624; albino, 
near Norwich, 4665 
Swallows and martins and fieldfares, 
4338 
Sycobius bicolor, 4397 
Sylvia aquatica, supposed occurrence 
of in Kent, 4693 
Tantalus hagedash, 4356 
Teal, 4328, 4489; nesting in Hamp- 
shire, 4457 
Teeth of sharks, 4344 
Telegraphy in India, ornithological 
and entomological interruptions to, 
4336 
“Telescope fishes,” 4501 
Textor erythrorhynchus, 4397 
Thinornis Nove-Zealandie, 4485 
‘Third Annual Report of the Board 
of Managers of the Zoological So- 
ciety of Philadelphia,’ 4586 
Thrush, variety of, 4691; and sparrow- 
hawk, 4325 
Thrush’s nest, pied wagtails building 
on, 4291; curious, 4456 
Thrushes, missel, nests of, 4291; mis- 
sel and common, 4327 
Tichodroma pheenicoptera in Norfolk, 
4695 
Tit, blue, food of, 4298 
yellowbreasted, 4478 
Titmice and kestrel, 4826 
Tits, bearded, breeding in confine- 
ment, 4693 
blue, nests of, 4291 
Torpedo on the Cornish coast, 4500 
Tortoises, land, the gigantic, of the 
Mascarene and Galapagos Islands, 
4679 
flat-headed type, id. 
round-headed type, 4683 
Touracou, 4549 
Treron Delalandi, 4615 
