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Anatomical characters distinguishing | 
the Swallow and the Swift, 217 
‘Animal Life and Habits, paola 
of’ (review), 503 
‘Animals, Geographical Diecabuiae 
of’ (review), 68 
‘Animals, Kindness to’ (review), 504 
Annelida, 346, 516 et seq. 
Anous stolidus, 490 
Anser albifrons, 322 
bernicla, 323 
brenta, 323 
hyperboreus, 482 
», segetum, 322 
Anthus ludovicianus, 402 
petrosus, 240 
» pratensis, 199, 239 
Ants, habits, 111 
Aquila chrysaétus, 194 
Archibuteo lagopus, 195; var. Sancti- 
Johannis, 422 
‘Arctic Expedition, the Recent, 
Official Report of’ (review), 38 
Arctic Molluscan Fauna, 435 
Ardea cxrulea, 479 
candidissima, 479 
cinerea, 286 
egretta, 479 
herodias, 479 
»» virescens, 480 
Ardetta exilis, 480 
Asterina gibbosa on the coast of 
Banffshire, 109 
Astur atricapillus, 421 
», palumbarius, 195 
Auk, Little, 330, 493 
Aulastoma, 517, 519 
Aurochsg, 138 
Autumnal breeding of the Otter, 17 
Avocet, 288 
Bacteria, 347 
Badger, 127; breeding, 250, 251 
Balena mysticetus, 360 
Bat, Large Horseshoe, 146 
» Noctule or Great, 146 
Bear, Brown, 124 
Bs White, 316 
Beaver, 145 
Beavers in Siberia, 172 
Bees, habits, 111 
Bermudas, Birds of the, 398, 473 
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England in the autumn of 1876, 7; 
autumnal migration on the York- 
‘shire coast, 41; rare, in Wilts and 
Dorset, 52; the time of day at which 
they lay their eggs, 53; migration at 
Heligoland, 59; rare, on the Exe, 
104; Act forthe protection of certain 
CONTENTS. 
Wild, during the breeding season, 
167; rare, in the Humber district, 
174; observed in Norway, 193; 
migration, 205, 340; near York, 
231; of the Moy Estuary and the 
surrounding district, 233, 284, 321; 
impaled by the wind on weather 
vanes, 259; in the Isle of Wight, 
343; observed in Glen Spean, 382; 
of the Bermudas, 398,473; observed 
between Cape Farewell and Cape 
Clear, 468 
‘Birds, British, a History of’ (re- 
view), 35 
‘Birds, List of British’ (review), 458 
‘Birds of Marlborough’ (review), 37 
‘ Birds of South Africa’ (review), 350 
Bison, 138 
Bittern, 97, 431 
American, 480 
Least, 480 
» Little, in Oxfordshire, 232; 
in Guernsey, 259 
Blackbird, singular nest, 108 
Pe and Starling, varieties, 22 
Blackbird’s nest, Cuckoo’s egg in, 
340 
Blackbirds, 11, 238 
Blackeap in County Wicklow, 299 
Blackeap’s nest suspended in a fir 
tree, 258 
Blue Bird, Eastern, 399 
Bluethroat, red-spotted, 197 
Boar-fish in the Isle of Wight, 452 
Bob-o’-link, 414 
Bonito at Plymouth, 27 
Botaurus minor, 480 
Brachyotus palustris, 420 
Brambling nesting in Perthshire, 60; 
in Norway, 199, 255 
Branta canadensis, 482 
Breeding, autumnal, of the Otter, 17; 
of Rabbits above ground, 18; season 
of Crayfish, 28; of the Otter, 100, 
172, 250; of the Badger, 250, 251; 
season of Edible Crab, 261, 301; of 
Pochards in Regent's Park, 342: in 
Dorsetshire, 885; of Black-headed 
Gull in Dorsetshire, 385 
Browne, Montagu, ‘A List of the 
British Macro- -Lepidoptera’ (re- 
view), 464 
Bubo ignayus, 196 
Bucephala albeola, 485 
a3 clangula, 485 
Bulfinch, 241 
Bunting, Bay-winged, 411 
Common, 240 
Lapland, 199 
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