CONTENTS. 



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Puffinus major, 464 

 Pycnonotus layardi, 209 

 Pyrrhocorax graculus, 47 

 Pyrrkula vulgaris, 134 



Quail, 189 



„ Button, 339 



,, Corumou, 339 

 Querquedula crecca, 289 



„ hottentotta, 427 



Bail, Water, 218 



Ballus aquaticus, 218 



Bamsey Island, Pembrokeshire, a 

 visit to, 263 



Bangifer tarandus, 406 



Eat, Black, in the Channel Islands, 67 



Eaven, 45 



,, White-collared, 254 



Becurvirostra avocetta, 425 



Bedpoll, Lesser, 133 

 „ Mealy, 133 



Bedshank, breeding in Yorkshire, 

 232; in Natal, 425 

 ,, Common, 214 



Bedstart, 48 



Eedwing, a melanism of the, 151 



Begulus cristatus, 49 

 „ ignicapillus, 49 



Begulus, Fire-crested, in Jersey, 433 



Beindeer, 406 



Bernhardt, Prof., death of, 465 



Bhinolophus hipposideros in York- 

 shire, 186 



Bhinopomastes cyanomelas, 207 



Bhynchaea capensis, 425 



Bissa tridactyla, 409 



Bobin, 48 



Book, 46 



,, African, 255 



Buff, 425 



Buticilla phcenicura, 48 



Salicaria phragmitis, 48 



,, strepera, 48 

 Salmon — do they spawn in the sea ? 

 153 ; the Severn, whence it comes 

 and where it goes, 221 

 Sanderling, 333, 430 

 Sandpiper, Common, 214, 369, 425 

 „ Cm-lew, in Cornwall, 266 ; 

 in Natal, 425 



Purple, 334, 409 

 Wood, 425 

 Saxicola bifasciata, 211 

 ,, galtoni, 211 

 ,, monticola, 211 

 ,, oenanthe, 48 



Saxicola pileata, 211 

 ,, rubetra, 48 

 ,, rubicola, 48 

 Scaup, 289 



Scolopax rusticola, 214 

 Scops capensis, 204 

 Scopus umbretta, 344 

 Seal, Great, 405 



,, Grey, off the Norfolk coast, 187 

 „ Binged, 405 

 Secretary Bird, 167 

 Seed-eater, Sundevall's, 301 

 Serpentarius secretarius, 167 

 Serpents, the desquamation and di- 

 gestion of, from a new point o 

 view, 50 ; incubation of, 345 

 Shag, 373 



Shark, Spinous, in Penzance, 22 ; on 

 the coast of Dublin, 434 

 „ Thresher, off the coast of 

 Devon, 434 

 Shearwater, Great, in Lincolnshire, 

 464 



,, Manx, in Jersey, 234 ; 



in Breconshire, 292 ; off Cley, 372 ; 

 in Somerset, 433 

 Sheldrake, 287, 372 

 ShoveUer, 288 



Cape, 428 

 Shrike, Backbakiri, 253 

 „ Fiscal, 252 



,, Great Grey, in Somerset, 71 ; 

 at Durham, 115 ; in Breconshire, 

 148, 293; in Devon, 148; near 

 Bamsley, 148; in Norfolk, 373, 

 374, 375 



„ Greater Puff-backed, 253 

 „ Lesser Puff-backed, 253 

 „ Long-billed Bush, 253 

 „ Pallas's Grey, in Wales, 109 

 „ Bed-backed, 252 

 „ Buddy-breasted Bush, 253 

 Siskin, 133, 368, 429 

 Sitta csesia, 132 

 Skate, 417 



Skua, Buffon's, in Co. Waterford, 22 ; 

 in the Channel Islands, 188 

 ,, Common, 429 

 „ Pomatorhme, 373 ; in Sussex, 

 463 



,, Bichardson's, 410 

 Smew, 290 



Snake poison as a pepsine, 118 

 Snake, Smooth, in Surrey, 433 ; at 



Bournemouth, 434 

 Snakes venomous and non -veno- 

 mous, 140 ; treatment of in cap- 

 tivity, 448 



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