CONTENTS. 



XV11 



Snakes, on the treatment of in cap- 

 tivity, 18, 61, 103, 205, 242, 284 ; 

 eating fish, 259 



Snipe, Common, 59, drumming in 

 winter, 320 ; Great, in Lincoln- 

 shire, 31, in Norway, 58 ; Jack, 

 in Oxfordshire in summer, 504 



Societies, Scientific : — 



Entomological, 40, 264, 347, 385 

 Linnean, 38, 87, 132. 185, 229, 261, 



306, 346, 508 

 Zoological, 39, 88, 133, 187, 231, 

 263, 309 



Solomon Islands, notes from, 169 



Somateria mollissirna, 486 



Song of Grasshopper Warbler, 299 



Sparrow, 10, 159 ; and his ways, 297 ; 

 imitating a Canary's note, 381 ; 

 Tree, 10 



Sparrowhawk, 54 



Sparrows' nests, curious site for, 125 



Sphaeriidffi, 328 



Sphasrium corneum, 328, var. fla- 

 vescens, 328 ; lacustre, 328 ; ovale, 

 328 ; rivicola, 328 



Spitzbergen, an autumn visit to, 393, 

 433, 479 



Spoonbill, 260, 317, 495 



Starling, 13, 159 ; peculiar habit of 

 the, 334, 373 ; food of, 334 



Stercorarius crepidatus, 485 



Stilt, 495 



Stonechat, 158 



Sterna macrura, 484 



Sturgeon, large, in the Thames, 341 



Sturnus vulgaris, 13, 159 



Succinea elegans, 364 ; putris, 363 



Summer migrants, 319 



Sunfish, Oblong, in Cornwall, 342 



SwaUow, 10 ; and Wren nesting in 

 proximity, 296 • 



Swallows, late breeding of in Kirk- 

 cudbrightshire, 124 ; late, 391 ; 

 returning to their old nests, 259 



Swan, Bewick's, 314 ; Mute, 317 



Swift, 13 ; late stay of in autumn, 

 30, 81 ; late stay of in South 

 Wales, 127 ; returning to former 

 nesting-place, 257 ; at Norwich, 

 318 



Swordfish on the coast of Norfolk, 35 



Sylvia atricapilla, 7 ; curruca, 7 ; 

 rufa, 7, 158 



Teal, 55 



Tern, Arctic, 484; Black, 317, in 

 Nottinghamshire, 477 ; Common, 

 in Oxfordshire, 470; Sandwich, 



318 ; White-winged Black, in Nor- 

 folk, 341 



Testacella haliotidea, 363 



ThalassmidiB, 217 



Theriotrophium, Boyal, near the 

 Tower of London, 37, 86 



Thick-knee, European, scientific 

 name of, 255 



"Thresher" off the coast of Devon, 

 36 



Thrush, Missel, 5, and Chaffinch 

 nesting in proximity, 31, 129, and 

 Blackbird, interbreeding of, 123, 

 partial melanism in the, 377 ; Song, 

 5, 158 



Tit, Bearded, singular accident to, 

 177 



Titmouse, Blue, 9 ; Coal, variety of, 

 424 ; Crested, 9 ; Great, 8 ; Long- 

 tailed, 8; Marsh, 8, in Oxford, 

 255 ; Northern Marsh, 8 



Toad, Natterjack, in Suffolk, 84 ; at 

 Carlisle, 130 



Totanus calidris, 60 : fuscus, 495 ; 

 glareola, 60; hypoleucus, 59; 

 ochropus, 59 



Trichecus rosmarus, 480 



Tringa maritima, 484 



Triton alpestris, 52 ; cristatus, 52 



Troglodytes parvulus, 9, 159 



" Trout, White," of Pennant, 228 



Tunny in the Exe, 430 



Turdus iliacus, 5 ; rnerula, 5, 158; 

 musicus, 5, 158 ; pilaris, 5 ; tor- 

 quatus, 5 ; viscivorus, 5 



Twite, 11, 159 ; origin of the name, 

 260 



Unio pictorum, 329, var. latior, 329 ; 



tumidus, 328 

 Uriagrylle,162; Mandti,486; troile, 



162 

 Ursus maritimus, 479 



Valvata cristata, 330 ; piscinalis, 330 



Vanellus cristatus, 161 



Variety of Wheatear, and other birds, 



79; of Red-backed Shrike, 180; 



pale, of the Jay, 257 ; white, of 



Magpie, 258 ; of Redwing, 380 ; of 



Coal Titmouse, 424; albino, of 



Blackbird, 471 

 Varieties of Wheatear and Siskin, 



123 ; white and pied, of birds, 424 

 Vermin destroyed on an Irish estate, 



171 

 Vertigo edentula, 368 ; pusilla, 368 ; 



pygmaea, 368 



