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winter, 321 ; of Grey Crow in War- 

 wickshire, 337, 423; of Nightjar, 

 late, 380, 429, 495 ; attachment of 

 Magpie to, 471 



Nests, Sparrow's, curious site for, 

 125 ; Swallows returning to their 

 old, 259 ; variation in, of common 

 birds, 491 ; singular, taken in Kent, 

 491 



Newt, Palmated, in Gloucestershire, 

 226 



Nightingale in Ireland, 30 ; Keble 

 and the, 176 



Nightjar, 160, late nesting of, 380, 

 429, 495; Egyptian, in Notting- 

 hamshire, 374 



Nomenclature, trinomial, 97 



Norfolk Plover attacked by a hen, 

 317 



Norway, Field Notes in, 1882, 4, 53 



Note on the age of a wild Rabbit, 

 173 ; on an egg of the Kea, 376 ; on 

 the Water Vole, 465 ; on iEgialitis 

 nigris, 468 



Notes, wayside, during a West- 

 country drive, 448 ; from County 

 Cork, 497 



Nutcracker in North Devon, 338 



Nuthatch, Northern, 9 



Oedemia fusca, 55 ; nigra, 55 



Oriole, Golden, in Essex, 335 



Ornithological notes from Devon, 28 ; 

 from Devon and Cornwall, 165, 

 419 ; from Ireland, 340 ; from 

 Mayo and Sligo, 370 ; from Nor- 

 folk, 313 ; from the Isle of Wight, 

 27, 126 ; from Skye, 358 



Ornithologists' sling, an, 490 



Ornithologists' Union, American, 488 



Ornithology, notes on, from Devon- 

 shire, 220 ; of Northamptonshire, 

 notes on, 425, 466, 502 



Ortolan, 12 



Osprey in Lincolnshire, 471 ; in 

 County Durham, 504 



Ossiferous cave near Cappagh, Co. 

 Waterford, 37, 86 



Otter, Sea Lamprey killed by, 304 



Otters and the floods, 115 



Ouzel, Ring, 5 ; defending its nest, 

 180 ; in captivity, 239, 295 ; in 

 Suffolk, 504 



Owl, Long-eared, 53, note of the, 

 430; Snowy, in Donegal, 80; 

 Tengmalrn's, 320 



Oyster, food of, 85 ; culture in 

 America, 472 



Oystercatcher, 161 



Pagurus Dilwynnii, 68 ; eblaniensis, 



69 ; ferrugineis, 68 ; Forbesii, 68 

 Palinurus vulgaris, 216 

 Paludina contecta, 329 ; vivipara, 329 

 Paludinidui, 329 

 Paralepis coregonoides in Cornwall, 



381, 506 

 Parasites, animal, 219, 292 

 Parasitical worms in a Hornbill, 382 

 Partridge perching, 80 ; bold attack 



by a, 336 ; French, nesting on a 



rick, 300 ; Red-legged, in North 



Norfolk, 79 

 Partridges and Pheasants in the 



Scilly Isles, 504 

 Parus borealis, 8 ; cseruleus, 9 ; 



major, 8 ; palustris, 8 

 Passer domesticus, 10; montanus, 



10, 159 

 Peafowl, Black-winged, 33 

 Pectinibranchiata, 329 

 Perch, heavy, 471 

 Petrel, Fulmar, 485 ; Leach's, picked 



up in Birmingham, 424; Storm, 



313, 320 

 Phalacrocorax carbo, 162 ; cristatus, 



163 

 Phalarope, Grey, in North Oxon, 128 ; 



Red-necked, 58, 318, 319 

 Phalaropus hyperboreus, 58 

 Pheasants and Partridges in the 



Scilly Isles, 504 

 Phoca barbata, 480 ; hispida, 479 

 Phocasna communis, 481 

 Phylloscopus collybita, 7 ; trochilus, 



7, 158 

 Physa fontinalis, 331 ; hypnorum, 



331 

 Pica rustica, 13 

 Picoides tridactylus, 14 

 Picus major, 14 ; minor, 14 

 Pied Flycatcher, 10; in Northamp- 

 tonshire, 300 

 Pigeon, Rock, 161 ; Wood, 161 

 Pike, large, in the Avon, 85 

 Pilchard, migrations of the, 431 ; 



habits of the, 505 

 Pipit, meadow, 9, 159 ; Rock, 159 ; 



Tawny, in Sussex, 34 ; Tree, 10 

 Pisidiurn amnicum, 328 ; fontinale, 



328, var. Henslowiana, 328, var. 



pulchella, 328 ; nitidum, 328 ; pu- 



sillum, 328, var. obtusalis, 328 

 Planorbis albus, 330 ; carinatus, 330 ; 



contortus, 331 ; corneus, 330 ; mar- 



ginatus, 330 ; nautileus, 330 ; niti- 



