XXx1V¥ CONTENTS. 
Osprey in Waterford, 4759; near| nest, 4875; building in a buzzard’s 
Birmingham, id. ; in Suffolk, 4785 
‘Ostriches and Ostrich Farming,’ 5173 
Otter near York, 4919; in the New 
Forest, 4995 
‘Our Summer Migrants,’ 4970 
Ouzel, ring, &c., 4903 
water, 5029 
Ouzels, ring, in winter, 4956 
Owl, barn, and its castings, 4832, 
4870; and rat, 4871; and shrew, 7d., 
4922 
— hawk, claws of, 4995 
— longeared, gregarious habit of, 
4831, 5163; on the North-West 
coast, 4906 
— shorteared, 4823; abundance of 
near Kingsbridge, 4831; in West 
Sussex, 4865; curious capture of, 
4896; on Walney Island, 4907 
snowy, in County Fermanagh, 
4871; on Dartmoor, id.; nesting 
in confinement, 5041 
id. 
Oyster, propagation of the, 4936 
Oysters and starfishes, 4946 
Partridge perching, 4774 
redlegged, sitting on a gate, 
5125 
Partridges and ducks laying in the 
same nest, 4765 
Pastor, rosecoloured, in the Isle of |’ 
Wight, 5120; in Hampshire, 7d. 
Peal, salmon, taken at bottom on a 
spiller, 5127 
Pediocetes Phasianellus, 5072 
Peewit, 4862; white, 4928 
Penguin, king, at the Zoo, 4848 
Peregrine in the city of Norwich, 
4795; wood pigeon attacking, 4799 ; 
food of, 4828; in Norfolk, 4893 
Petrel, fulmar, 4773, 4781; of Martin, 
4931 
Leach’s, in Cornwall, 5167 
Phalarope, gray, 4790, 4802, 4827; 
early occurrence of in Devon, 5083 
rednecked, 4790 
Phasianus torquatus = P. decollatus ? 
5166 
Pheasant, malformed, 4799; and fowl 
hybrids, id. 
Pheasants, nidification of, 5046 
Picus lenconotus, note on, 4819 
Pied rats, 5039 
Pigeon, wood, attacking peregrine, 
4799; scarcity of, 4819; and tree 
sparrow bnilding in a magpie’s 
nest, 4957 
Pigeon’s beak, loss and reproduction 
of, 4881 
Pigeons, English and Egyptian, 4799 
Pipe-fish, ocean, 4754 
——— great, id. 
Plaice, 4755 
Pleuronectes flesus, id. 
limanda, id. 
microcephalus, id. 
platessa, id. 
Plover, golden, 4862, 4984, 4985 
gray, 4985 
little ringed, eye of, 4801 
ring, 4860 
stilt, 5107 
Pochards and tufted ducks nesting 
in Norfolk, 5107 
| Puffin, 4958, 5031 
‘Rambles of a Naturalist,’ 5137 
Raniceps trifureus, 4753 
| Rat and barn owl, 4871; water, black, 
Ox, musk, 4789; sheep and European, | 
5177 
Rats, pied, 5039 
Razorbill, 4747; plumage of, 4823; 
scarcity of, 4959, 5007, 5030, 5048 
Redbreast, 4746, 4984 
Redpoll, lesser, nesting in Suffolk, 5003 
Redshank, spotted, 4864; at North- 
repps, 5083 
Redstart, black, near Loddeswell, 
4762; at East Looe, Cornwall, id.; 
in Norfolk, 4894 
Redstart’s nest, unusual situation of, 
4834; built in a human skull, 5042 
Redstarts and blue tits nesting in 
human skulls, 5116 
Redwing, 4746, 4818, 4860; nesting 
in England, 4833 
Reed-beds and small birds, 4827 
Reindeer, 4739 
Rhombus levis, 4754 
———. maximus, 7d. 
——— punctatus, 4755 
Riley, Charles V.,M.A., Ph.D., ‘ Notes 
on the Yueca Borer,’ 4972 
Robin, temerity of, 4924; nesting in 
a room, 5164 
Robin’s nest, curious situation for, 
4833 
Roller, 4840; in Suffolk, 5045 
Rooks, migratory (?), 4776; and stay- 
lings often peck with their beaks 
open, 4796; migration of, 4837, 
4907, (5105; note on, 4926, 5044; 
partial migration of, 5006; feeding 
their young, 5104 
