Xil 
Larus glaucus, 154 
», leucopterus, id. 
Lee, Henry, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c., 
‘The White Whale’ (review), 270 
Limacide, 85 
Limax agrestis, 86 
» flavus, id. 
», - marginatus, id. 
» maximus, 87 
Limnea auricula, 167 
» glabra, id. 
palustris, id. 
3); perepra, ed. 
a stagnalis, id. 
ab truncatula, id. 
Limneide, 165 
Limneus truncatulus, 181 
Limpet, Lake, 167 
Pa River, id. 
Linnean Society of London, pro- 
ceedings, 30, 107, 136, 181, 227, 
258, 297, 456 
Lobsters, exuviation of, 225 
Lockwood, Edwd., ‘ Natural History, 
Sport and Travel’ (review), 458 
Longevity in the Dog, 100 
Lucas, T. J., ‘Camp Life and Sport 
in South Africa’ (review), 266 
Mackerel, large, at Plymouth, 107 
Mammals of Shakspeare, 118, 168, 
202, 244, 325 
Manatee, Sonth American, in the 
Westminster Aquarium, 285 
Marsh-shell, Common, 164 
Marten, Beech, in Cornwall, 127 
Marten-cat in Wastdale, Cumberland, 
128 
Megaptera bodps, 4 
Merlin, habits of, 133 
Merlins nesting in a tree, 29 
Mesoplodon bidens, 8 
‘ Midland Naturalist’ (review), 152 
Migrants, arrival and departure of, as 
observed chiefly in the vicinity of 
Cromer and Norwich, 45; autumn 
and winter, 215; summer, near 
Dublin, 217 
Migration, spring, of birds, 30, 216; 
autumnal, of waders, 43; of birds 
on the N.E. coast, 47; in autumn, 
100; in the winter of 1877-78, 102; 
CONTENTS. 
bird, in the spring of 1878, 240: 
double, of Woodcock, 889 
Mole, orange variety, 22, 128 
Mollusca, land and freshwater, of 
Sussex. 84, 122, 161, 180 
Monodon monoceros, 8 
‘Moor and the Loch’ (review), 189 
Moorhen, pugnacity, 135 
Mud-shell, Ear-shaped, 167 
% Marsh, id. 
“5 Pond, id. 
H Smooth, id. 
3 Truncate, id. 
a Wandering, id. 
Mullet, Red, in December, 61 
Mussel, Painter’s, 163 
» Swan, zd. 
Mystaceti, 3 
Nares, Sir G. S., R.N., KCB., 
F.R.S., ‘ Narrative of a Voyage to 
the Polar Sea during 1875-6, in 
H.M. Ships “Alert” and “ Dis- 
covery”; with Notes on the Natural 
History, edited by H. W. Feilden, 
F.G.S., C.M.Z.S.’ (review), 301 
Narwhal, 8 
‘Natural History and Rural Life, 
Sketches of’ (review), 358 
Natural-History notes from Poole, 130 
‘Natural History, Sport and ‘Travel’ 
(review), 458 
‘Naturalists and Sportsmen, Inter- 
national Dictionary for’ (review), 
360 
Neritidee, 163 
Neritina fluviatilis, id. 
Nest of Chiffchaff in a holly, 254; of 
Cuckoo, two eggs in, 256, 350 
Nesting of Merlins in a tree, 29; of 
Great Grey Shrike near Salisbury, 
56; habits of Kingfisher, 178, 213; 
of Crossbill in Sutherlandshire,180; 
of Wood Pigeons near a house, 180, 
215; of the Water Ouzel, 212,255; 
former, of the Kite in London, 215; 
abnormal, of the Nuthatch, 254; 
habits of the Stonechat, Wheatear 
and Whinchat, 294; of Red-backed 
Shrike near London, 297; freak, 
curious, of the Common Buzzard, 
339; habits of the Kestrel and 
