CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Abnormal eggs of Blackbird, 195, 

 227 ; of Kiug Ouzel, 273 ; growth 



in Cancer pagm-us, 349 ; antlers of 



the Koe, 3r>3 

 Abnormally coloured Sky Lark, 230 

 Acauthyllis caudacuta, 310 ; fusca, 



311 ; sj'lvatica, 313 

 Accentor modularis, 47, 94 

 Accijiiter nisus, 26, 43, 101 

 Acredula Irbyi, 22 ; rosea, 94 

 Acrocephalus schoeuobanus, 94 ; stre- 



perus, 175 

 ^gialitis hiaticula, 16, 282 

 Agiinus catai)hractus, 181 

 Alauda arborea, 24, 98 ; arvensis, 98 

 Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 



223, 424 

 Alca troile, 17 

 Alcedo ispida, 48, 100 

 Alopecias vulpes, 180 

 Anas bosclias, 101, 177 ; strepera, 486 

 Anchovy, 183 

 Animal life, ■wanton destruction of in 



Shetland, 00 

 Animals, I3ritisli, at the British 



Museum, 188 ; Bewick's engravings 



of, 223 

 Anser brachyrliyncbus, 14, 101 ; leu- 



copsis, 16, 232, 486 ; segetum, 177 

 Authus pratensis, 95 ; spipoletta, 28 ; 



trivialis, 96 

 Aquila chrysaetus, 26, 42 

 Ardea cinerea, 45, 101, 176; gar- 



zetta, 177 

 Ardetta minuta, 101, 177 

 Argentine near Penzance, 171 

 Asio accipitrmus, 25, 100, 176 ; otus, 



25, 100 

 Athene noctua, 25 

 Atherina presbyter, 182 

 "Attagen" of the Ancients, 31 

 Auk, Great, the last, 141 ; Little, 18, 



105 

 'Auk, the: a Quarterly Journal cf 



Ornithology,' 142 

 Auxis Rochei, 181 

 Avi-Famia of Spitzbergen, 281 



Badger in North Yorkshire, 63 ; in 

 Yorkshire, 174 ; in Leicestershire, 

 271 



Balistes capriscus, 183 ; off Folke- 

 stone, 472 



Barbets, 247, 249 



Basse, 181 



Bat, Greater Horse-shoe, at Oxford, 

 483 ; Lesser Horse-shoe, 173 ; Red- 

 dish-grey, 178 ; Whiskered, 173 



Bergylt, 19 



Beruicla brenta, 14 



Bewick's engravings of animals, 228 



Birds, British, uncommon varieties 

 of, 10 ; temeritj' in, 30 ; rare British, 

 in the collection of Mr. J. Whitaker, 

 50 ; rare, in Lincolnshire, 70 ; 

 liovermg over dead companions, 

 149 ; migratory, on the Yorkshire 

 moors, 190 ; uncommon, in Hert- 

 fordshire, 192 ; of Pembrokeshire, 

 211, 381 ; wingless, 226 ; of South 

 Wales, 272 ; wild, protection of in 

 India, 336 ; instinct of, 344, 389 ; 

 summer, scarcity of in Co. Kildare, 

 389 ; on some introduced in New 

 Zealand, 448 ; of Breconshire, sup- 

 plemental list of, 485 ; of Berk- 

 shire, notes on, 487 



Bittern, 7; in Suffolk, 31 ; American, 

 in Sussex, 68 ; in Yorkshire, 177 ; 

 m Berkshire, 469 ; Little, 9, 101, 

 177 ; at Colchester, 842 



Blackbird, 46, 92 ; abnormal eggs of, 

 195, 227; and Thrush, hybrids 

 between, 146 



Blackcap, 93 



Black-game in Pembrokeshire, 481 



Blackfish on the Devonshire coast, 

 347 



Blackstart, 174 



Bluethroat, 174 



Bonito on the coast of Galway, 81 ; 

 Plain, 181 



Books Rp;vikwkd : — 



'Birds of South Africa,' by E. L. 

 Layard, revised by R. B. Sharpe, 

 278 

 'Birds of Prey, Diurnal, a List of 

 the, also a Record of Specimens 

 preserved in the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Museum,' by John H. 

 Gurney, 280 

 ' Evolution and Natural Theology,' 



by W. F. Kirby, 38 

 ' Zoology, Elementary Text-Book 

 of,' by Dr. Claus ; translated and 

 edited bj' Adam Sedgwick, 494 



