CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS. 



Accentor modularis, 8, 158 

 Accipiter nisus, 54 

 Acbatina acicula, 369 

 Acnie lineata, 369 

 Acredula caudata, 8 

 Aerocephalus schcenobaenus, 8 

 iEgialitis nigris, 418, note on, 468 ; 



tricollaris, 417 

 Alauda arvensis, 12 

 Alca Bruennichi, 487 ; torda, 161 

 Ampelis garrulns, 10 

 Anas boscbas, 55 



Ancylusfluviatilis,331 ; lacustris, 331 

 Anguis fragilis, 49 

 Animals wild in India, 73 ; in the 



Tower of London, 37, 86 

 Anodonta anatina, 329 ; cygnea, 329, 



var. cellensis, 329, var. intermedia, 



329, var. rostrata, 329 

 Anser brachyrhynchus, 54 

 Antlius obscurus, 159 ; pratensis, 9, 



159 ; trivialis, 10 

 Archibuteo lagopus, 54 

 Arion ater, 362 ; flavus, 362 ; hor- 



tensis, 363 

 Asiatic Lepidoptera, 172 

 Asio otus, 53 



Audubon Collection of Birds, pur- 

 chase of the, 35 

 Auk, Great, formerly eaten in Lent, 



38, the last, 470 ; Little, 487 



Balea perversa, 368 

 Bat, Hairy-armed, in Co. Fer- 

 managh, 116; Natterer's, in Co. 

 Cork, 294 ; Serotine, in Essex, 173 

 Bats, homing instinct in, 173 

 Batrachia and Keptilia observed in 



Normandy, 49 

 Bear, Polar, 479 

 Beaver in Norway, 465 

 Bee-eater, Blue-tailed, 33, 80 

 Bird-names, English, meaning of, 116 

 Bird-tracks, apparent, by the sea- 

 shore, 378 

 Birds, of Lancashire, 119 ; rare, at 

 Harwich, 119 ; of the Banbury dis- 

 trict, 122 ; uncommon, near York, 

 128, 180; time of day at which 

 they lay their eggs, 145 ; of Lam- 

 bay Island, Co. Dublin, 155, 225 ; 

 song, hybrid, 178 ; of Walney 

 Island, 219, 251 ; hybrids amongst, 

 256, 301, 338, 379, 501 ; British, the 

 ' Ibis ' list of, 292, 339 ; Game, im- 



ported in the English markets, 

 300 ; winter, arrivals of, 321 ; yoiuig 

 game, Magpie attacking, 335 ; fat- 

 tened for the table, 336 ; subcuta- 

 neous worms in, 383 ; white and 

 pied varieties of, 424 ; migration 

 of, as observed at lighthouses in 

 1882, 457 ; fish-eating, so-called, 

 at the Fisheries Exhibition, 462; 

 common, variation in nests of, 491 ; 

 rare, in Sussex, 495 ; rare, in Corn- 

 wall and Scilly, 495 

 Bittern, food of, 35, near Yarmouth, 

 315 ; American, in Pembrokeshire, 

 341 

 Bitterns migrating in a flock, 223 

 Blackbird, 5, 158; and Thrush, inter- 

 breeding of, 128 ; building in a 

 waterspout, 381 ; an albino, 471 

 Blackcap, 7 



Black-game killed on the railway, 259 

 Bluethroat, Red-spotted, 6 

 Bombinator igneus, 51 

 Bonasa betuliua, 56 

 Books Reviewed: — 



' Bibliotheca Piscatoria : a Cata- 

 logue of Books on Angling, the 

 Fisheries and Fish-culture, with 

 Biographical Notes, ami an Ap- 

 pendix of Citations touching on 

 Angling and Fishing from old 

 English Authors,' by T. West- 

 wood and T. Satchell, 272 

 ' Bh - ds, British, a History of,' by 



the late William Yarrell, 48 

 1 Birds, British, a History of; with 

 Coloured Illustrations of their 

 Eggs,' by Henry Seebohm, 91 

 ' Birds of Burmah, a Handbook to 

 the, including those found in the 

 adjoining State of Karennee,' 

 vol. i., by Eugene W. Oates, 

 26b 

 ' Birds of New Zealand, a Manual 

 of the,' by Walter L. Buller, 93 

 'Birds, Report on the Migrations 

 of, in the Spring and Autumn of 

 1881,' bj r Messrs. Harvie Brown, 

 Cordeaux, Kerrnode, Barrington, 

 and A. G. More, 92 

 'Challenger, H.M.S., Reports on 

 the Scientific Results of the 

 Voyage of, during the years 

 1873—76'; Zoology, vols, ii.— 

 vi., 189 



