CONTENTS. 
Migrants, raptorial, near Cromer, 66 
Migration of the Snow Bunting, 1; 
autumn, of birds on the East Coast, 
26; of birds, 105 ; spring, of waders 
along the Kast Coast in 1881, 326 
Milvus regalis, 403 
Mollusca, aquatic, 177; terrestrial, 
242; of the Isle of Man, 378 
Motacilla alba, 369 
Mouse, Harvest, winter nest of, 233 ; 
and Sparrow, encounter between, 
335 
»  Short-tailed Field, food of, 
461 
Mullet, Red, off the Cornish coast in 
December, 69 
Mus alexandrinus at Norwich, 469 
Muscicapa grisola, 409 
f luctuosa, 409 
National Fisheries Exhibition, 249 
Neritide, 180 
Nest of Wren in January, 108; 
winter, of Harvest Mouse, 233; 
Tree Pipit’s, egg of Cuckoo ejected 
from, 336; of Kite (with fig.), 404 
Nesting habits of the Common Buz- 
zard, 106; peculiar, of the Black- 
bird, 212; of Teal in Yorkshire, 
212; of Kestrel in holes of trees, 
537; of Snow Bunting in Shet- 
land,, 423; of Redwing in Perth- 
shire, 472; of Hobby in Oxford- 
shire, 493 
Newt, Palmated, in Kirkeudbright- 
shire, 424 
Newts, Water, in the Co. Cork, 337 
Nightingale, food of, 317 
Nightjar, food of, 324 
Notes and observations on British 
Stalk-eyed Crustacea, 97, 137, 198, 
301, 358, 413 
Notes on the food of birds, 318, 410; 
from the Farne Islands, 423 
Notices of Books (see Books, Notices 
of New) 
Numenius pheopus, 376 
Nutcracker, food of, 322 
Nuthatch, food of, 322 
(idemia fusca, 374 
Oriole, Golden, food of, 316 
Ornithological notes from Aldeburgh, 
468; from Devon and Cornwall, 
50, 195; from Dublin, 467; from 
East Norfolk, 484; from Lanca- 
shire, 185; from Mayo and Sligo, 
131, 254; from North Northamp- 
xXil 
tonshire, 24; from Northampton- 
shire, 64; from Oxfordshire, 211; 
from Salisbury, 489; from the Isle 
of Wight, 259, 421; from the neigh- 
bourhood of Cromer, 330; from 
West Cumberland, 466; from West 
Sussex, 47 
Ortolan, food of, 319 
Osprey in Dorsetshire, 262; in Bre- 
conshire, 408; in West Cumber- 
land, 470; in Cornwall, 493 
Otters in Hampshire, 102 
Otus brachyotus, 407 
s vulgaris, 407 
Ouzel, Ring, food of, 316; in Brecon- 
shire, 408 
» Water, 409 
Owl, an unidentified, shot in Ireland, 
262 F 
», Barn, food of, 314; in Brecon- 
shire, 407 
»» Brown, 407 
» Hawk, food of, 315; 
Michael’s, Alaska, 371 
» Lapp, 371 
» Long-eared, hooting of, 56; 
breeding in Dorsetshire, 263; food 
of, 314; in Breconshire, 407 
»» Scops-eared, food of, 314 
» Short-eared, food of, 314; in 
Cambridgeshire, 336; in Brecon- 
shire, 407 
» Snowy, food of, 315 
», Tawny, food of, 314 
», Tengmalm’s, food of, 315 
» Virginian Horned, supposed 
occurrence of in Ireland, 308 
Oystercatcher, 375; food of, 410 
at St. 
Paludinide, 180 
Pandion haliaétus, 262, 403, 498 
Parrot, Mountain, of New Zealand, 
habits of, 290 
Partridge, food of, 324 
7 Red-legged, food of, 324 
Partridges, white, in Surrey, 471 
Parus cinctus, 369 
Passer domesticus, 3870 
»  montanus, 370 
Pastor, Rose-coloured, food of, 320 
Pectinibranchiata, 180 
Pernis apivorus, 403 
Petrel, Bulwer’s, 378 
» Storm, near Wendover, 68; 
habits of in captivity, 489 
Petrels, Storm, in Yorkshire, 27 ; and 
Fork-tailed on the Lincolnshire 
coast, 491 
