CONTENTS. 
Migrations of the swift, 5045 
Migratory waders, 4773; 
wagtails, 4834 
Moa, notes on the extinction of the, 
with a review of the discussion on 
the subject published in the ‘ Trans- 
actions of the New Zealand Insti- 
tute,’ 5147 
Monstrosities, 4869 
Moorhen, change of plumage in, 5084 
Moorhen’s nest, thirteen eggs in, 5006 
Moschus moschiferus, 4962 
Mosenthal, Julius de, and James E. 
Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., ‘Os- 
triches and Ostrich Farming,’ 5173 
Mottled blackbirds, 5002 
Mullet, gray, giant, 4806; size of, 4886 
red, taken at bottom on a 
spiller, 5127 
Murena Helena, 5034, 5053 
Museum at York, 4999; the Exeter 
Albert Memorial, 5115 
Nematus gallicola, note on, 5090 
Nerophis aquoreus, 4754 
Nest, ducks and partridges laying in 
the same, 4765; of common wren, 
4773; late, of song thrush, id.; of 
robin, curious situation for, 4833; 
of redstart, unusual situation of, 
flock of 
4834; of magpie, tree sparrow and | 
wood pigeon building in, 4875; 
martin returning annually to the 
same, 4957; buzzard’s, wood pigeon 
building in, id.; spotted flycatcher 
returning annually to the same, 
5001, 5116; deserted, thrush laying 
in, 5002; crow laying twice in the 
same, 5005; moorhen’s, thirteen 
eggs in, 5006; of blackbird on the 
ground, 5042; redstart’s, built in a 
human skull, id.; three crows to a, 
5044; magpie laying twice in the 
same, 5081; of whitethroat at an 
unusual eleyation, 5119; thrush’s, 
pied wagtail building in, 5120; 
crow’s, lining of, 5121 
Nesting of hawfinch at Beverley, 
4763 ; of redwing in England, 4833 ; 
of stock dove, 4842 ; freak, curious, 
of spotted flycatcher, 4987; of house 
sparrow, 4997; of lesser redpoll, 
in Suffolk, 5008; of duck in a pol- 
_ lard willow, 5006; notes on, 5040; 
of snowy owl in confinement, 5041 ; 
» of blue tit in a hole used by a king- 
- fisher, 5080; of pochards and tufted 
ducks in Norfolk, 5107; of sand 
martins in sawdust-heaps, 5108; of 
XXXill 
redstarts and blue tits in human 
skulls, 5116; of greenfinch in a 
furze-bush, 5120; of hooded crow 
in East Yorkshire, 5121; of jack- 
daws in modern gables, id.; of 
swifts, late, 5165 
Nesting-places of the starling, curious, 
5043 
Nests, gannets’, materials of, 5043; 
Newman, Edward, obituary notice of, 
lii., 4973 
of stock dove, 5105 
Nightjar, 4780 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society, 4891 
Note on Picus leuconotus, 4819; on 
the plumage of the yellowhammer, 
4874; on rooks, 4926, 5044; on the 
song thrush, 5002; on Nematus gal- 
licola, 5090; on Sabine’s snipe, 5142 
Notes from Castle Eden, 4746, 4815, 
4858, 4985, 5103; on some fishes 
observed at Portrush, County An- 
trim, 4753; from North Devon and 
West Somerset, 4813; on the rough- 
legged buzzard, 4829; on cranes, 
4843; afew rough, from Beverley 
for the close of the year 1875, 4861 ; 
from West Sussex, 4863; from West 
Somerset, 4899, 4995; from Port- 
rush, 4903; on the structure of 
aquariums, 4910; on a South- 
American heron, 4928.; bird, from 
the Isle of Wight, 4997; from the 
Zoological Gardens, 4998 ; ornitho- 
logical, 5030; aquarium, 5032; from 
Flamborough, 5040; on nesting, 
id.; onthe cuckoo and redbacked 
shrike, 5045; on the extinction of 
the moa, 5147 
‘ Notes on the Yucca Borer,’ 4972 
Nuthatch, 4840 
Oriole, golden, in County Dublin, 
4956; in the Lizard district, zd. 
Ornithological notes from Norfolk, 
4773, 4893, 5105; from North Lin- 
colnshire, 4778, 4897, 4982, 5061; 
from Guernsey, 4780; and some of 
the other Channel Islands, 50243 
from Devonshire and Cornwall, 
4783, 4823, 4901, 4991, 5028, 5109; 
and Somersetshire, 5145; from the 
North-West Coast, 4906; from Dub- 
lin, 4919; from Blakenny, 5078; 
from Perthshire, 5100; from the 
Isle of Wight, 5160 
‘Ornithology of the Straits of Gib- 
raltar,’ 4971 
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