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CONTENTS. 



Interbreeding of 

 Thrush, 123 



Blackbird and 



Jackdaw, 13, 160 



Jay, 13 ; pale variety of the, 257 ; 



migration of the, 1, 76, 77, 128 

 Jelly-fish, large, 472 

 Jynx torquilla, 14 



Kea, note on an egg of the, 376 

 Kestrel, 54, 158 ; young, plumage of 



the, 496 ; American, in Yorkshire, 



126 

 Kittiwake, 163, 484 



Lagopus albus, 56 ; hemileucurus, 

 482 ; mutus, 55 



Laniellibranchiata, 328 



Lamprey, Sea, killed by an Otter, 

 304 ; in the Wear, 382 



Lapwing, 161 



Lark, Crested, breeding in England, 

 178 ; Shore, in Kent, 83 ; in Nor- 

 folk, 313, 315, 319, 320; Short- 

 toed, near Cambridge, 33 ; Sky, 12 ; 

 Wood, 314, 319 



Larks, Sky, great influx of, 314 



Larus argentatus, 164 ; canus, 164 ; 

 fuscus, 60, 164 ; glaucus, 484 ; 

 marinus, 163 



Lepidoptera, Yorkshire, 115 ; Asiatic, 

 172 



Life, a wave of, 151 



Lirnacida?, 362 



Limax agrestis, 363 ; arboram, 363 ; 

 cinereo-niger, a new British ship. 

 304; flavus, 363; lsevis, 868; 

 maximus, 363 



Limicola platyrhyncha, 59 



Limzuea aurieularia, 331 ; glabra. 

 370; glutinosa, 370; palustris, 331 : 

 peregra, 331, var. acuminata, 331, 

 var. ovata, 331; stagnalis, 331, 

 var. fragilis, 331 ; trnncatula, 331 



Linnet, 11, 159; and Greenfinch, 

 hybrid between, 127, 302 



Linota cannabina, 11, 159 ; flavi- 

 rostris, 11, 159 ; linaria, 11 



Lophophanes cristatus, 9 



Loxia curvirostra, 11 



Lump-sucker in Devonshire, 228 



Macroura, Suborder, 71 



Magpie, 13, 316, 317; white, 258; 



attacking young game-birds, 335 ; 



attachment of to nesting site, 471 ; 



food of, 499 

 Mallard, 55 



Manx Shearwater, note of the, 28, 

 81, 82, 123 



Marten, former occurrence of in Nor- 

 folk, 75 ; in Co. Clare, 252 ; Pine, 

 breeding of in captivity, 203 ; in 

 Northumberland, 295 



Martin, 10 ; building sites of, 34, 124 ; 

 Wren building in deserted nest of, 

 126 ; blind, on the wing, 224 ; in 

 Norfolk, 318 ; Sand, 10 



Martins, late breeding of in Kirkcud- 

 brightshire, 124 ; late, 321 



Melanism in the Bullfinch, 254 ; par- 

 tial in the Missel Thrush, 377 



Merganser, Red-breasted, 55 



Mergulus alle, 487 



Mergus merganser, 55 ; serrator, 55 



Merlin, 54 



Migrants, arrival of, 316 ; summer, 

 319 ; raptorial, 322 



Migrations of the Common Jay, 1, 

 76, 77, 128 ; of Bitterns in a flock, 

 223 ; of birds as observed at light- 

 houses in 1882, 457 ; of Wagtails, 

 469 



Migrations, animal, through the Suez 

 Canal, 73 ; of the Pilchard, 431 



Migratory waders, 324 



Moa, the, at home, 273 



Mole pursuing an Earthworm above 

 ground, 76 



Mollusoa, land and freshwater, in the 

 vicinity of Oxford, 327, 362 



Moorhen and Coot laying in the 

 same nest, 31 



Moorhen in a Rabbit's earth, 128 



Molruilla alba, 9; lugubris, 159; 

 viridis, 9 



Moose, House, Field Vole suckled by, 

 and vice versa, 823 



Munida bamfiicus, 214 



Mnscicapa atricapilla, JO 



Museum, Natural History, S. Ken- 

 sington, 24 ; proposed for Shrews- 

 bury, 25 



Natural History notes from Alde- 

 burgh, 14 ; at the International 

 Fisheries Exhibition, 233 



Nest, deserted, of Martin, Wren 

 building in, 126 ; Swallow's, Wren 

 utilising, 380, 423 



Nesting of Missel Thrush and Chaf- 

 finch in proximity, 31, 129 ; of 

 Marsh and Reed "Warblers, 223 ; 

 of Swallow and Wren in proximity, 

 296 ; of French Partridge on a rick, 

 300 ; of Herons, 317 ; of Robins in 



