CONTENTS. 



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of the Common Kinged Snake, 303, 

 341 ; of the Starling, 344 ; of the 

 Carrion Crow and Magpie, 499 



Forbes, Mr. W. A., the late, 260 



Fox, Arctic, 479 



Foxes, protecting poultry from in 

 Scotland, 260 



Fratercula arctica, 161 ; glacialis, 488 



Fringilla coelebs, 10, 159 ; monti- 

 fringilla, 10 



Frog, Edible, 49 ; habits of, 129 ; in 

 Suffolk, 226 



Fuligula cristata, 55 ; rnarila, 55 



Fulmarus glacialis, 485 



Galathea dispersa, 214 ; intermedia, 

 214 ; nexa, 213 ; squamifera, 71 ; 

 strigosa, 71 



Gallinago cselestis, 59 ; major, 58 



Game killed on the railway, 490 



Gannet, 315 ; caught in a net, 3~6 



Garrulus glandarius, 13 



" Gavial," origin of the name, 303 



Gecinus viridis, 14 



Geese, Greylag, 318 ; Wild, 314, 315, 

 320, formerly breeding in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, 383, formerly breed- 

 ing in the English fens, 432 



Glow-worm, Dr. Johnson on the, 

 38 



Gobia stellata, 218 



Golden-crest, 7 



Golden-eye, 55 



Goldfinch in Oxfordshire, 337 ; habits 

 of, 378 



Goosander, 55, 313, 315 



Goose, Pink-footed, 54 



Goshawk near Oxford, 31 



Grebe, Great Crested, breeding in 

 Oxfordshire, 32, in Norfolk, 315, 

 316; Little, habits of the, 503; 

 Red-necked, 314, 315 ; Sclavonian, 

 313, 315, 320 



Greenfinch, 159 ; and Linnet, hybrid 

 between, 127, 302 



Grosbeak, Pine, in Cambridgeshire, 

 222 



Grouse, Hazel, 56; Willow, 56 



Grus communis, 56 

 Guillemot, 162; Black, 162,— in 

 Co. Cork, 380 ; Briinnich's, 487 ; 

 Mandt's, 486 ; Ringed, 315 

 Gull, Bonaparte's, at St. Leonard's- 

 on-Sea, 120; Common, 164; Glau- 

 cous, 314, 484 ; Greater Black- 

 backed, 163; Herring, 164; Ice- 

 land, at Aldeburgh, 257 ; Ivory, on 

 the Lincolnshire coast, 258 ; Lesser 



Black-backed, 60, 164 ; Little, 320, 

 321 ; Sabine's, 319 

 Gulls in the watershed of the Liffey, 

 499 ; Lesser Black-back and Her- 

 ring, hybrid between, 174 



Habit, peculiar, of the Starling, 372 



Habits of the Edible Frog, 129 ; of 

 the Mason Wasp, 346 ; of the Gold- 

 finch and Grey Crow, 378 ; of the 

 Little Grebe, 503 ; of the Pilchard, 

 505 ; some newly observed, of 

 Ceratodus Forsteri, 506 



Haematopus ostralegus, 161 



Haliaetiis albicilla, 156 



Hare, singular conduct of a, 75 



Hares, fatal collision between two, 75 



Harrier, Hen, 53 ; Montagu's, in Ire- 

 land, 32, 177 



Hawfinch, 313, 316 



Hedgehog, food of, 25, 115 



Hedgesparrow, 8, 158 



Helicidae, 363 



Helix aculeata, 365 ; arbustorum, 

 366 ; aspersa, 365 ; cantiana, 366 ; 

 caperata, 367, var. ornata, 367 ; 

 concinna, 366 ; ericetorum, 367, 

 var. alba, 367, var. minor, 367 ; 

 hispida, 366, var. albida, 366 ; 

 hortensis, 366 ; lapicida, 367 ; nemo- 

 ralis, 366 ; pomatia, 365, claims 

 of as a British mollusk, 342 ; pul- 

 chella, 367 ; pygmaea, 367 ; rotun- 

 data, 367 ; rufescens, 366, var. 

 albida, 366, var. conica, 366, var. 

 minor, 366 ; rupestris, 367 ; sericea, 

 369 ; virgata, 366 



Heronries in Somersetshire, 221 



Herons nesting, 317 



Hirundo rustica, 10 



Hobby breeding in Oxfordshire, 32 ; 

 in the Co. Tipperary, 122 ; in South 

 Lincolnshire, 123 



Hoopoe at the Fame Islands, 338 



Hornbill, parasitical worms in a, 382 



Hybrid between Greenfinch and Lin- 

 net, 127, 302 ; between the Lesser 

 Black-back and Herring Gulls, 174 ; 

 song birds, 178 

 Hybrids amongst birds, 256, 301, 338 ; 



379, 503 

 Hypolais icterina, 8 



Ibis, Glossy, 318 



' Ibis ' list of British Birds, 35, 292, 



339 

 India, Wild Animals in, 73 

 Instinct, homing, in Bats, 173 



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