CONTENTS. 
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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 
Abnormal growth of a New Zealand 
Land Snail, 61 
Achatina acicula, 125 
Acme lineata, 126 
Anatomy of Soft-shelled Turtles, 
some peculiarities in, 401 
Ancylus fluviatilis, 157, 181 
» lacustris, vel oblonga, 167 
Anecdote of a Rough-legged Buz- 
zard, 26 
Animals, British, provincial names of, 
287, 290, 291, 292, 329, 330, 331, 
332, 333, 354, 385, 886, 387, 427, 
428, 429 
‘Animals, the Fur-bearing ; a Mono- 
graph of the North-American Mus- 
_ telide’ (review), 188 
Anodonta cygnea, 163 
Anser albatus, 419, 453 
Aplexus hypnorum, 181 
Apteryx, Owen’s, egg of, 436 
Arion ater, 85 
»  hortensis, 86 
Auk, Little, in Nottinghamshire, 60 
Azeca tridens, 125 
Baikie, Edwin Simpson, ‘ Inter- 
national Dictionary for Naturalists 
and Sportsmen’ (review), 360 
Balena biscayensis, 4 
» lmysticetus, id. 
Balenide, 3 
Baleenoptera laticeps, 5 
os musculus, zd. 
+ rostrata, zd. 
a Sibbaldii, zd. 
Baleenopteridee, 4 
Balia perversa, vel fragilis, 124 
Bat, long-eared, note on, 22 
‘Beasts, Wild, of Tadin: Thirteen 
Years among’ (review), 356 
Beluga, 8 
Bird, a new fossil, 256 
Bird migration in the spring of 1878, 
240 
‘ Birds, British, History of’ (review), 
462 
Birds, wading, in autumn at Holy 
Island, 22; attractive power of 
light on, 27; spring migration, 30, 
216, 240; migration in autumn, 
100; in the winter of 1877-78, 102; 
striking the lanterns of lighthouses, 
182; Lincolnshire, an old list of, 
219; British, provincial names, 
222, 347 (see Animals); Sea, de- 
struction of shell-fish by, 223; 
inability to distinguish eggs, 340 
Bivalves, 161 
Blackcap in Scotland in winter, 220; 
in County Dublin, 256 
Blenny, Montagu’s, in Ireland, 297 
Brambling, strange resting-place, 42 
Breeding of wildfowl in Norfolk, id. 
“ Bribe-buck,” 388 
Bubble-shell, Slender, 166 
Stream, id. 
Bulinivus montanus, 122 
; obscurus, zd. 
Bunting, Snow, 48 ; early arrival, 437 
Buzzard, Common, curious nesting 
freak of, 839 
53 Rough-legged, 26 
Buzzards, Common and Rough- 
legged, in Kirkcudbrightshire, 58 
Bythinia Leachii, 164 
»  tentaculata, id. 
Cachelot, 6 
Campion, Major J. S., ‘On the 
Frontier ; Reminiscences of Wild 
Sports, Personal Adventures, and 
Strange Scenes’ (review), 396 
Capercaillie in Scotland, 221, 342; 
and Black Grouse, hybrid, 349 
Caprimulgus europeeus, 154 
Carychiide, 125 
Carychium minimum, id. 
Cat, Wild, hunting the, 251 
Cattle, British, White Wild, visit to 
the existing herds, 273 
Cetacea, British, distinguishing cha- 
racters, 1 
Chamois, White, in Switzerland, 337 
Chiffchaff’s nest in a holly, 254; ata 
height from the ground, 350 
Chroicocephalus, orthography of the 
genus, 105 
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