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CONTENTS. 



Viper, ground colour of the, 303 



Vitriua pellucida, 363 



Vole, Field, suckled by a House 



Mouse, and vice versa, 332 ; Water, 



note on the, 465 

 Vulpes lagopus, 479 



Waders, migratory, 324 ; on the 



South coast, 469 

 Wagtail, Blue-headed Yellow, in Co. 



Cork, 340 ; Grey-headed, 9 ; Pied, 



159; White, 9; Yellow, in Co. 



Dublin, 302 

 Wagtails, migration of, 469 

 Walrus, 480 



Warbler, Blue-throated, 318 ; Grass- 

 hopper, song of, 299 ; Icterine, 8 ; 



Marsh, at Taunton, 295 ; Sedge, 8 

 Warblers, Marsh and Beed, nesting 



of, 223 

 Wasp, Mason, habits of the, 346 

 Waxwing, 10 ; in South Lincolnshire, 



129 ; in Norwich, 321 

 Waxwings in Aberdeenshire, 259 ; in 



Cumberland, 299 

 AVhale in the Thames in 1658, 131, 



306 ; Pilot, in Devonshire, 173 

 Whales, 480 ; Sperm, on the Kentish 



coast in 1762, 131 

 Wheatear, 6, 158 ; variety of, and 



other birds, 79 ; and Siskin, 



varieties of, 124 

 Whinchat, 6 



Whitethroat, 7, 158 ; Lesser, 7 

 Wigeon in Notts in August, 424; 



early appearance of, 498 



Wild animals in India, 73 



Wildfowl at Poole, 124 



Winter arrivals, 321 



Wolf-fish in Devonshire, 227 



Woodcock, 58 



Woodpecker, Great Black, 13; 

 Greater Spotted, 14, in confine- 

 ment, 473 ; Green, 14 ; Lesser 

 Spotted, 14, 315, 316, 321 ; Three- 

 toed, 14 



Worms, subcutaneous, in a Shrike, 

 345 ; parasitical, in a Hornbill, 

 382 ; subcutaneous, in birds, 383 



Wren, 9, 159, building in deserted 

 nest of Martin, 126, and Swal- 

 low nesting in proximity, 296, 

 utdising a Swallow's nest, 380, 

 423 ; Fire-crested, at Oxford, 224 ; 

 Golden-crested, 320 ; Willow, 7, 

 158 



Wryneck, 14 



Yarrell's ' British Birds,' 35 ty$ 

 YeUowhammer, 12, 159 



Zonites alliarius, 364 ; cellarius, 364, 

 var. albida, 364 ; crystallinus, 364 ; 

 fulvus, 364 ; glaber, 364 ; nitidulus, 

 364, var. nitens, 364 ; nitidus, 364 ; 

 purus, 364 ; radiatulus, 364 



Zoological Gardens, Davis Lectures 

 at the, 251 ; new reptile house at 

 the, 353 



Zoological notes from Gibraltar, 100 



Zoology of the Channel Islands, 423 



