CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTEIBUTOKS. 



Aplin, F. C. 



Grey form of the Tawny Owl iu 

 Buckinghamsliire, 471 ; Hobby 

 iu Oxfordshire, 486 



Aplin, Oliver V. 



Uucommon varieties of British 

 bii-ds, 10; Eecords of the Hoopoe 

 in Hampshire, 28, G8; Note of 

 some rare British birds m the 

 collection of Mr. J. Whitaker, 50 ; 

 Pale-coloured Kestrel from Skye, 

 67 ; Stoats acquiring the Ermine 

 dress in mild seasons, 112; Wild- 

 fowl in North Oxfordshire, 113 ; 

 Subcutaneous worms in Short- 

 eared Owl, 153; Great Grey 

 Shrike iu Northamptonshire and 

 Oxfordshire, 229 ; Fieldfares and 

 Eedwings, 339 ; Rare visitors to 

 N. Oxfordshire, 341; Ornitho- 

 logical notes from Oxfordshii-e, 

 488 



Backhouse, James, jim. 



Ornithological notes from the 

 French Pvrenees, 20 ; Great 

 Grey Shrike at York, 68 ; The 

 American Kestrel iu Yorkshire, 

 230 



Barrington, Richard M., M.A. 

 Wood Pigeon cooing at night, 231 ; 

 The St. Kilda Wren, 383 ; Irish 

 breeding-stations of the Gannet, 

 473 



Becher, Capt. E. F., R.A., F.Z.S. 

 Food of the Stone Curlew, 68, 113 ; 

 Occurrence of the Swallow-tailed 

 Kite in Europe, 145 ; Abnor- 

 mally coloured Sky Lark, 230, 

 273 ; Blue-headed YeUow Wag- 

 tail in confinement, 232 ; Food 

 of the House Sparrow, 342 ; 

 Lizards on the rock of Filfola, 

 431 ; Shearwaters on the rock of 

 Filfola, 467 ; Hooded Crow and | 

 Grey Phalarope at Malta, 486 I 



ZOOLOGIST. — DEC. 1884. 



Becher, Rev. W. 



Strange behaviour of Starlings, 70 ; 

 Nesting of the Long-tailed Tit- 

 mouse, 383 

 Beckwith, William E. 



Common Sandpiper in winter, 73 

 Blyth, Edward, the late 



Three unpublished papers on Or- 

 nithology, 201, 247, 300 

 Bond, F., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Manx Shearwater inland in Shrop- 

 shire, 431 

 BORRER, W., M.A. 



American Bittern in Sussex, 68 



BOULENGER, G. A. 



On the existence of two species of 

 Aquatic Frogs in North Ger- 

 many, 220 ; On the origin of the 

 Edible Frog in England, 265 

 Brown, J, A. Harvie, F.R.S.E., &c. 

 Method of recording observations, 

 GO, 140 ; Abnormal eggs of Ring 

 Ouzel, 273 

 Brown, William 



Habits of the Magpie, 344 

 Browne, Montague 



" Sea-blue Bird of March," 197 

 Bunker, Thomas 



Rudolphi's Rorqual at Goole, 483 

 Buxton, J. H. 



Abnormal eggs of Blackbird, 195, 

 227 

 Candler, Henry 



Building sites of House Martin, 

 470 

 Carter, Thomas 



Badger iu North Yorkshire, 63 ; 

 Breeding of Redshank in North 

 Yorkshire, 72 ; Green Sandpiper 

 in North Yorkshu-e, 431 ; Egging 

 on the coast of Yorkshire, 438 ; 

 Breeding of the Hawfinch iu 

 North Yorkshire, 487 

 Clermont, Lord 



Habits of Parrots, 145 



