CONTENTS. 
4989; trapped in a “gin,” 4991; 
and herring gull, 4992; breeding on 
the Yorkshire coast, 5000; at Wem- 
bury, 5028; sternum of, 5079 
Farne Islands, 4999 
Fauna and Flora of New Zealand, 
Dr. Buller on the, 5113 
Feathers, axillary, 5041 
Vieldfare, 4818, 4985, 4986; variety 
of, 4893 
Fieldfares on Salisbury Plain, 4872; 
late, 5106, 5164 
Fish culture for the Thames, 5115 
Fishes observed at Portrush, County 
Antrim, 4753 
Flies, bats hawking for at noonday, 
5115 
Flounder, 4755 
Flycatcher, pied, 4988; breeding in 
Wharfdale, 5001 
spotted, curious nesting 
freak of, 4987; returning annually 
to the same nest, 5001, 5116; 
castings of, 5042 
white-collared, claim of 
to a place in the British list, 4832 
.Flying-fish in the Bristol Channel, 
5128 
Food of heron, 4789; of peregrine, &c., 
4828; of redbreasted merganser, 
5085 
Forkbeard, lesser, at Kirkwall, 5049 
Fowl and pheasant hybrids, 4799 
Fox, Arctic, 4737 
European, 4738 
Greenland, id. 
Foxes and wolves, eagles trained to 
capture, 5162 
Fox-shark on the Irish coast, 5049 
Gadus pollachius, 4756 
— virens, 4755 
Gadwall, 4990 
Gallinule, spotted, near Kingsbridge, 
4763 
Gannet, 4823 
Gannets’ nests, materials of, 5048 
Geese, wild, near Merton Hall, Nor- 
folk, 4760 
‘Geographical Distribution of Ani- 
mals,’ 4972 
Godwit, bartailed, 4764, 4779, 5046 
blacktailed, 4862 
on Walney Island, 4908 
Godwits, 4992 
Goldeneye, 4746, 4779, 4909 
Goosander, 4789, 4990; at Slapton 
Ley, 4803; in Essex, 4827; near 
Bridlington, 4863 ; in Norfolk, 4893 
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Goose, bean, 4789 
Egyptian, 4990 
lesser whitefronted, 4930, 5006 
Goshawk in Norfolk, 4896; in Lin- 
colnshire, 5162 
Grebe, eared, in Essex, 4827 
great crested, near Kings- 
bridge, 4804; in Essex, 4827; in 
Norfolk, 5106 
little, summer plumage of, 
5047, 5169 
rednecked, 4790; 
4827; in Beverley, 4863 
Sclavonian, 4791, 4989 
Grebes, retention of summer plumage 
by, 4847 
Greenfinch, 4875; nesting in a furze- 
bush, 5120 
Greenshank, 4908; 
5122 
Grouse, black, in the New Forest, 
5123 
Guillemot, plumage of, 4823; in More- 
cambe Bay, 4909; attitudes of, 4958 
Guillemots, breast-bones of, 5086 
Guillemots’ eggs, jackdaws stealing, 
4957 
Gull with black head, 4827 
Gull, blackheaded, 4746, 4747, 4895, 
4909 
common, 4959; does it breed in 
the Scilly Isles, 5126 
glaucous, at Flamborough, 4804 
great blackbacked, 4858 
herring, 4901; and peregrine 
falcon, 4992 
— Iceland, at Aldeburgh, 4848 
ivory, 4960 
— little, 4791 
—— Sabine’s, at Bridlington Quay, 
4883 
Gulls, herring, at Wembury, 5028; 
at Tintagel, 5126 
lesser blackbacked, calling in 
the air, 4903; in North Lincoln- 
shire, 4983 
little, off Flamborough Head, 
4804 
Gurney, J. H., jun., F.Z.S., ‘Rambles 
of a Naturalist,’ 5137 
Hairtail, silvery, on the coast of 
Devon, 4806; another near Ply- 
mouth, 4887 
Hake, tadpole, 4753 
trifurcated, off Penzance, 5128 
Halibut, 4754; large, 4961 
‘Handbook of British Birds,’ errata 
in, 5041 
in Essex, 
in Sutherland, 
