CONTENTS. 
the Devil-fish of Fiction and of 
Fact,’ 4972 
Aquariums, structure of, 4910 
Archibuteo Sancti-Johannis, 4870 
Arrival of swallows and sand martins, 
4927 
Ash-coloured swallow, 4787 
Atherina presbyter, 4754 
Atherine, id. - 
Auk, little, 4791 
Waterford great, 4847 
Avocet in Ireland, 4764; in Durham, 
4765 
Avocets on Breydon, 4897 
Balenoptera musculus at Lynn, 4756 
Band-fish, red, at Plymouth, 4767 
Basse, 4754 
Bat flying in the sunshine, 4953 
Bats hawking for flies at noonday, 
5115 
Bear, Polar, 4734 
Bees, great tits eating, 4873 
Bernicla leucopsis, 4905 
Bird-breeders on Old Farne, a first 
peep at, 4933 
Bird notes from the Isle of Wight, 
4997 ; imitating a duck, 5041 
Bird’s beak, reproduction in, 4924 
Birds, Arctic, 4745; migration of, 
4757; sea, at Flamborough, 4758; 
in the Guernsey Museum, 4781; 
‘Guernsey—are they British ? 4782; 
rare, in Norfolk and Suffolk, 4785 ; 
rare sea, addendum to a note on, 
4794; rare, in Lincolnshire, id.; 
rare, in Essex, 4827; small, and 
reed-beds, 4827; scarcity of, 4859 ; 
spring, 7d.; at Spurn and on the 
Humber, 4863; African, 4869; near 
Rainworth, id.; pied about the 
head, zd.; rare, near York, 4919; 
rare, near Malton, id.; rare, near 
Ringwood, during the winter of 
1875-6, 4989; the time of day at 
which they lay their eggs, 5115, 
5161; sea, at Bridlington, 5116; 
scarce, at Torquay, 5161 
‘Birds of Northumberland and Dur- 
ham, a Catalogue of the,’ by John 
Hancock, 4793 
‘Birds of the North-West: a Hand- 
book of the Ornithology of the 
Region drained by the Missouri 
River andits Tributaries,’ 5013, 5063 
Bittern, 4789, 4989 
American, in Islay, 4801; in 
Dumfriesshire, 4929 
little, in Plymouth, 5046 
XX1x 
Blackbird, albino, 4787; white, 4923; 
habits of, 4923; with pied head, zd.; 
and missel thrush, 4986; nest of on 
the ground, 5042; adopting a young 
sparrow, 5164 
Blackbird, 4795, 4817 ; mottled, 5002 
Blackeap, fauces of, 5080; in Ireland, 
5119 
Blackeap’s head in winter, 4761, 4873 
Blenniops arcanu, 4753 
Blennius gattorugine, zd. 
Blenny, gattoruginous, 4753 
Yarrell’s, id. 
Bonasa umbellus, 5071 
Brambling, 4863 
Briggs, Mr. John Joseph, death of, 
4932 
Brill, 4754 
Bullfinch, 4779 
Bunting, blackheaded, 5008, 5042 
snow, 4862, 4899, 4983 
Bustard, great, at Feltwell, 4882; in 
Orkney, 4927; last appearances of 
in England, 4800 
little, plumage of, 4798 
Macqueen’s, caution! 4763, 
4800 
Buzzard, common, 4829, 4906; in 
Hast Yorkshire, 4920; at Scar- 
borough, id. 
curious capture of, 4760; 
trapped in a “gin,” 4991 
—— roughlegged, in Yorkshire, 
4760; in Norfolk, 4786, 4894; notes 
on, 4829, 4868, 4920; in Eden Dene, 
4858; at Rufford, 4170; in Scot- 
land, 4921; plumage of, id., 4955; 
escorted by rooks, 4986 
Buzzards, unusual quantity of, in 
Scotland, 4795, 4829 
Canis latrans, 5076 
Capra iemlaica, 4962 
Capyros aper, 5128 
Cat, wild, 4791, 4825, 4868; measure- 
ments of, 4867; period of gestation, 
5088, 5114 
Cats, white, with blue eyes—are they 
deaf? 4918 
Cervus minor, 4962 
Chaffinch, the male nest-making, 
4875; migratory flocks in Norfolk, 
4898 
Chiffchaff in December, 4761 
Chough, at Portrush, 5165 
Cornish, 4823 
Clupea harengus, 4855 
Coal-fish, zd. 
Colymbus Adamsi, 4767 
