CONTENTS. 
Hirundo rustica, 289 
5 urbica, id. 
Hobby in Bedfordshire, 426 
Hoopoe in Fifeshire, 268; early men- 
tion of as a British bird, 337, 379 
‘Hunting Expedition to the Trans- 
' vaal’ (review), 384 
Hybrid Pheasant and Blackcock, 60 
Hydrochelidon nigra, 10, 383 
Hymenoptera, 15 
Insects which injure books, 430 
Jackdaw, 287, 452 
Kestrel, 275, 449 
-Kestrels, curious capture of a pair of, 
154 
Kingfisher, 289, 454; 
Newts, 32 
Kingfishers and the floods, 158 ; 
London, 383 
Kite, 275; habits of the, as observed 
in Scotland, 58 
Kittiwake, 291, 487 
Knot, 479: spring call of the, 178 
feeding on 
in 
Lamellibranchiata, 28 
Landrail, 481 
Lanius excubitor, 275 
Lark, Shore, 153; in Cornwall, 489 
» Sky, 280, 454 
Larks, Sky, disappearance of, 3] ; 
Starlings destroying eggs of, id.; 
extraordinary flight of, 280 
Larus argentatoides, 7 
» argentatus, id. 
»  canus, 291 
»  eburneus, 8 
» glaucus, 7 
», sabinii, 8 
tridactylus, 291 
Lepidogaster cornubiensis, 477 
Leptodora, occurrence of in England, 
429 
Lepus glacialis, 4 
Lestris Buffonii, 8 
»»  pomarinus,-zd. 
Limacide, 25 
Limax, genus, 196 
Limax agrestis, 25 
» ‘arboreum, 26 
Xill 
Limax gagates, 25 
,  Marginatus, td. 
» Maximus, 26 
Limnea palustris, 29 
i peregra, id. 
»  Stagnalis, id. 
»  truncatulus, id. 
Limneus, var.? 199 
| Limneide, 29 
Limpet, river, id. 
Linaria canescens, 5 
» minor, id. 
Linnean Society of London, pro- 
ceedings of, 34, 64, 187, 184, 222, 
807, 343, 492 
Linnet, 284, 452 
Linota cannabina, 284 
5,  linaris, id. 
Locustella luscinoides, 18 
Lupus griseus, 4 
Macrorhamphus griseus, 290 
Magellan, Straits of, voyage of the 
‘ Alert’ to the, 119 
Magpie, 155, 157,.288, 452 
Mammalia, 4 
Mammals of Shakespeare, 124 
Marinula forminii, 199 
Marten, Beech, description of, 443 
» Pine, description of, id.; in 
Lincolnshire, 420 
Marten-cat in Dorsetshire, 170, 171; 
in Cumberland, 171; in Norfolk, 
iby 
Martens in Norfolk and Suffolk, 210; 
in Cumberland, 264; in Hssex, zd.; 
British, Mr. E. R. Alston on, 441 
Martin, 289 
» House, 454 
» Sand, 289, 454 
Martins, House, nesting of, 157; 
Wrens roosting in vacant nests of, 
182; migration of, 340 
Merganser, Red-breasted, 483 
Merlin, 449; in Midlothian, 220 
Mice, Shrew, and Barn Owls, 341 
Migrants, arrival and departure of, 
156, 160; raptorial, 160; spring, 
and winter visitants to the Isle of 
Wight, 804; summer, in the Isle 
. of Wight, 384 
Migration, autumn, of birds in 1878, 
