CONTENTS. 
Larus ridibundus, 325 
»,  tridactyla, 825, 489 
Layard, HK. L., F.Z. S., ‘The Birds of | 
South Africa.’ (review), 350 
Lemming in Newfoundland, 47; in 
Greenland, 320 
yes British, extinct, 146 
Leopard, 128 
Lepus glacialis, 353 
Lestris Buffonii, 331 
», pomarinus, 331 
» Richardsonii, 331 
‘ Life of a Scotch Naturalist : Thomas 
Edward’ (review), 71 
Limicola platyrhyncha, 204 
Limosa hudsonica, 477 
s  melanura, 288 
po suta, 288 
Linaria cannabina, 241 
»  favirostris, 241 
y minor, 241 
Linnean Society of London, pro- 
ceedings, 28, 61, 109, 184, 262, 303, 
344, 526 
Linnet, Common, 241 
» Green, 240 
» Mountain, 241 
»» Pine, 410 
»  Redpoll, 410 
Linota canescens, 6 
»  exilipes, 6 
»,  hornemanni, 5 
» lnaria, 5,.6 
»,  rufescens, 6 
Lion, British, 128 
‘List of British Birds’ (review), 458 ; 
note on, 522 
‘List of the British Macro-Lepi- 
doptera’ (review), 464 
Lizards, extinct, formerly inhabiting 
the Mascarene Islands, 187; sacral 
flexus and sacral vertebre of, 265 
Lobipes hyperboreus, 475 
Lobster, 302; burying its prey, 261 
Lynx; 129 
Machetes pugnax, 203 
Macrorhamphus griseus, 476 
‘ Macro- -Lepidoptera, List of the 
British’ (review), 464 
Magpie, 96, 200, 242 
Magpies flocking in winter, 58 
Mallard, 483 
Mammalia of North Greenland and 
Grinnell Land, 313, 353 
Mammalia Scotica, 225 
Mammoth, 141 
Man-of-War Bird, 487 
Manley, J. J., M.A., ‘Notes on Fish 
and Fishing’ ((review), 501 
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Mareca americana, 483 
Marten, Beech, 127 
Marten-cat in Lincolnshire, 251; in 
England and Wales, 291; in Scot- 
land and Ireland, 292 
Martens in Suffolk, 338 
Martin, 202 
> Bee, 416 
» House, 242; singular variety, 
343 
» Purple, 407 
» sand, 242, 407; variety, 106, 
331 
Martins, Sand, Starlings nesting in 
holes of, 301; nesting in a stone 
wall, 450 
Meduse, varieties and monstrous 
forms, 110 
Melospiza palustris, 411 
Merganser, Hooded, 486 
a Red-breasted, 205, 329, 
486 
Mergansers inland, 232 
Mergulus alle, 493 
Meregus cucullatus, 486 
» Merganser, 486 
5  serrator, 486 
Merlin, 194, 234,431; in South Wales, 
226 
Merlins in Kent, 176 
Micropalama himantopus, 476 
Migrants, arrival and departure, as 
observed chiefly in the vicinity of 
Cromer and Norwich, 434 
is nocturnal, 95 
raptorial, 432 
Mier: ation of birds on the N.E. coast of 
England i in the autumn of 1876, 7; 
autumnal, on the Yorkshire coast, 
41; of Pied Flycatcher, 54; of birds 
at Heligoland, 59; of Sky Larks, 
96; of birds, 205, 340; of Rooks, 
388; of Ring Ouzels, 442 
Mimus carolinensis, 398 
Mniotilta varia, 402 
Mole, curiously coloured, 
ming powers, 440 
Mollusca, introduction of foreign land 
and fresh-water, 260, 302 
“3 recent, number obtained in 
Davis Strait, and northwards in the 
American Arctic Circle, 440 
Molluscan Fauna, Arctic, 435 
Molothrus pecoris, 414 
Monodon monoceros, 360 
Moorhen defending its young from a 
Stoat, 255; in Bermuda, 481 
Moose, 134 
Mormon fratercula, 330 
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