CONTENTS. 



IX 



Williams & Son 



Ornithological notes from Ireland, 

 74 

 Willmore, John A. 



Storm Petrel inland, 115 



Young, J. 



The "churring" of the Nuthatch, 

 113 ; Eeed Warbler and Night- 

 ingale in S. Wales, 310 ; Martins 

 breeding in Bayswater, 433 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Accentor modularis, 48 



Accipiter rufiventris, 169 



Acrocephalus arundinaceus, 245 

 ,, bceticatus, 246 



Actitis hypoleucus, 425 



Adams, Prof. Leith, memoir of the 

 late, 356 



Alaemon semitorquata, 302 



Adders swallowing their young, 394 



iEgialitis marginatus, 341 

 ,, tricollaris, 341 



Alauda arborea, 132 

 ,, arvensis, 132 



Alcedo ispida, 135 



,, semitorquata, 206 



Ampelis garrulus, 132 



Amblyospiza albifrons, 256 



Amydrus morio, 256 



Anas acuta, 288 

 ,, boschas, 287 

 ,, clypeata, 288 

 ,, penelope, 288 

 „ sparsa, 427 

 „ xanthorhyncha, 427 



Anastomus lamelligerus, 423 



Andropadus importunus, 209 



Animal life, effects of a snow-storm 

 on, in the Transvaal, 71 



Animals, rarer, of Scotland, past and 

 present distribution of some of the, 

 1, 41 ; wild, paid for by Church- 

 wardens of Crosthwaite, Cumber- 

 land, 108 ; domestic, effects of 

 reversion to the wild state in, 124 



Anomoura, 259 



Anser bernicla, 287 



,, brachyrhynchus, 413 

 „ ferus, 287 



Anthreptes collaris, 247 



Anthus arboreus, 50 

 „ Butleri, 336 

 „ caffer, 335 

 ,, pratensis, 50 

 ,, pyrrhonotus, 336 



Apalis thoracicus, 245 



Aquila pennata, 460 



Ardea cinerea, 216, 343 



,, comata, 217 



,, goliath, 343 



,, melanocephala, 343 



,, purpurea, 217, 344 

 Ardeola bubulcus, 344 

 Ardetta pusilla, 344 

 Asio capensis, 205 

 Atelecyclus septemdentatus, 185 

 Auk, Great, remains of the, 235 



„ Little, in Co. Waterford, 22 ; in 



Spitzbergen, 415 

 Avocet, 333, 3C8, 425 

 Aythia capensis, 428 



Badger, 1, 41; in Oxfordshire, 146; 

 in Essex, 303 



Badgers in West Cornwall, 66 



Balearica chrysopelargus, 342 



Balfour, Prof., memoir of the late, 355 



Barbet, Black-collared, 208 



Bat, uncommon, near Dublin, 16 

 ,, Lesser Horse-shoe, in York- 

 shire, 186 

 ,, Whiskered, in Yorkshire, 147 



Bear, Polar, 405 



Beaver in Scandinavia, 15 



Bee-eater, 370 



Beef-eater, Bed-billed, 255 



Beluga catodon, 406 



Bernicla brenta, 412 



Birds, European, observed in North 

 America, 21 ; of Breconshire, 45, 

 132, 213, 287; small, carried by 

 Cranes in their migrations, 72, 73 ; 

 rare, in Sussex, 114 ; and telegraph- 

 wires, 116 ; migration of at Har- 

 wich, 116 ; in Nottinghamshire, 

 notes on, 148 ; abnormally coloured 

 in Nottinghamshire, 150 ; uncom- 

 mon, in the Orwell, 151 ; uncom- 

 mon, in the Isle of Wight, 231 



Bird-names, English, the meaning 

 of, 441 



Bittern, 217, 344 



,, Little, South African, 341 



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