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CONTENTS. 



179 ; Green, at Farnborough, 385, 

 in Co. Sligo, 429, in North York- 

 shire, 431, at Talybout, 48(5 ; Pur- 

 ple, 18 ; Spotted, 179 ; Wood, 179, 

 in Nottinghamshire, 4G8 



Saxicola oenaiithe, '21, 93 



Schlegel, Prof., memoir of the late, 75 



Scoiopax rusticula, 104 



Scops giu, 25 



Scoter, Sorf, on the coast of Lanca- 

 shire, 29 ; Velvet, near Man- 

 chester, 143, at Hunstanton, 488 



Scyllarus arctus at the Land's End, 

 491 



Scymnus borealis, 19 



" Sea-Blue Bird of March," 117, 197 



Sea-bream, Ray's, 181 



Seal, Grey, in the Channel Islands, 

 337 



Seal and Wliale fisliery of 1882, notes 

 on, 121 ; of 1883, 295 



Sebastes norvegicus? 19 



Serinus hortulanus, 24 



Shark, Basking, on the Cornish coast, 

 273 ; Greenland, 19, 181 ; Fox, 180 ; 

 Spinous, on the coast of Cornwall, 

 150 



Sharks on the coasts of Devon and 

 Cornwall, 74 



Shearwater, Manx, 105, inland in 

 Shropshii-e,431 ; Sooty, at Redcar, 

 147, in Yorkshire, 180 



Shearwaters on the Hock of Filfola, 

 4G7 



Sheldrake, Ruddy, on Romney 

 Marsh, 468 



ShoveUer, 101, 177 



Slirike, Great Grey, at York, 68, in 

 Somersetshire, 69, 149, in Devon- 

 shire, 147, in Suffolk, 191, in 

 Northamptonshire and Oxford- 

 shire, 229 ; Grey, near Carlisle, 

 114; Pallas's Great Grey, 175; 

 Red-backed, the larder of, 341 



Sild-Kung, 182 



Siskin, 97 ; in Co. Cork, 149 ; in 

 North Devon, 231 



Sitta caesia, 23, 95 ; castaneoventris, 

 206 ; cinnamoventris, 206 ; for- 

 mosa, 205 ; himalayaua, 206 



Sittinie, 203 



Skate, 19 



Skomer Island, a visit to, 433 



Skua, Black Pomatorhine, at Redcar, 

 469; Buffon's, 14, 232; Poma- 

 torhine, 16, 232 ; Richardson's, 17 



Snipe, 105 ; and Woodcock, habits 

 of, 148 ; Great, in Co. Cork, 149 ; 



Jack, 105 ; Sabine's, near Water- 

 ford, 272 



Snipe perching, 28, 228; unusual 

 variety of the, 339 



Societies, Scientific: — 



Entomological, 119, 158, 238, 352, 



391 

 Linnean. 32, 78, 118, 155, 197, 



235, 276, 491 



Zoological, 36, 78, 119, 156, 199, 



236, 277, 350, 493 

 Somateria mollissima, 18 ; spec- 



tabilis, 15 

 Song of Tree Sparrow, 232 

 Spawning offish, 116 

 Sparrowhawk, 3, 43, 101 

 Sparrow, House, 48, 97, food of, 342, 



428 ; Tree, 48, 97, song of, 232 

 Spatula clypeata, 101, 177 

 Spitzbergen, an autumn visit to, 13 ; 



avifauna of, 231 

 Spoonbill in the South of Ireland, 



342 

 Spoonbills in Suffolk, 471 

 Squatarola helvetica, 104 

 Squirrels, depredations of, 64 

 Starhng, 98 



Starlings, strange behaviour of, 70 

 Stercorarius crepidatus, 17 ; longi- 



caudatus, 14, 232 ; pomatorhinus, 



16, 232 

 Sterna anglica, 27 ; Dougalli, 180 ; 



fuliginosa, 180 ; macrura, 105 

 Stickleback, Ten-spined, 182 

 Stint, Little, 179 

 Stoat, origin of the name "Lobster" 



applied to the, 112, 153 

 Stoats acquiring the ermine dress in 



mild seasons, 112 

 Stonechat, 93 

 Stork, 44; Black, near Rainham, 429; 



white, at Pevensey, 489 

 Strepsilas interpres, 16, 486 

 Strix flammea, 25, 100 

 Sturnus vulgaris, 98 

 Sula bassana, 473 

 Sun-fish, Long, near Penzance, 390; 



Oblong, 183 ; Short, 183 

 Surmullet, large, in Moimt's Bay, 



234 

 Swallow, 48, 27 

 Swan, 17 

 I Swift, 49, 99 ; Alpine, 176 

 Swifts, 300; Crested Jungle, 822; 



Spiny-tailed, 309 

 Swiftlets, 313 



Switzerland, notes from, 374 

 I Syllis, phosphorescence of, 117 



