CONTENTS. 



XIX 



Titmouse, Southern Black-and- 

 white, 248 

 Torpedo on the Yorkshire coast, 



193 

 Totanus calidris, 214, 425 



,, canescens, 425 



,, glareola, 425 



„ glottis, 214 



„ solitarius at Scilly, 432 

 Trichechus rosmarus, 405 

 Tringa canutus, 214 



„ inaritinia, 409 



„ minuta, 425 



,, subarquata, 425 

 Tringoides hypoleucus, 214 

 Troglodytes parvulus, 49 

 Turdus guttatus, 209 



,, olivaceus, 209 

 Turkey, " Wild," 424 

 Turnix lepurana, 339 

 Turnstone, 408 

 Turtur auritus, 137 



,, capicolus, 338 



,, Senegalensis, 338 

 Twite, 133 

 Tympanistria tympanistria, 338 



Umbrette, Tufted, 344 

 Upupa africana, 207 



,, epops, 135, 293 

 Ureginthus phcenicotis, 300 

 Uria bruennichi, 414 



„ troile, 291 

 Urobrachia axillaris, 298 

 Ursus maritimus, 405 



Vanellus cristatus, 213 



Variety of the Irish Hare, 66 ; of the 

 Bed Grouse, 117 ; of the Partridge, 

 117 ; of Grouse, 147 ; of the Com- 

 mon Snipe, 149 ; of the Redwing, 

 151; of Mole, 187, 263, 351; of the 

 Wheatear, 352 ; of the Swallow, 

 372 



Vespertilio mystacinus, 147 



Vidua principalis, 297, 460 



Visit to Bamsey Island, Pembroke- 

 shire, 263 ; to Loch Swen, Argyll- 

 shire, 281 



Vulpes lagopus, 404 



Vulture, Eared, 167 

 „ Egyptian, 167 

 „ Griffon, South African, 166 

 „ White-headed, 167 



Waders, migratory, 377 

 Wagtail, African Pied, 337 

 „ Cape, 337 



Wagtail, Grey, 50 



„ Pied, 50, 430 

 „ Yellow, 50 

 Walrus, 405 



Warbler, Bar-throated, 245 

 „ Brown Fantail, 244 

 „ Common Fantail, 244 

 ,, European Willow, 246 

 ,, Garden, 49 

 ,, Great Beed, 245 

 „ Larger Grey-backed Fan- 

 tail, 244 



,, Le Vaillant's Fantail, 244 

 ,, Marsh, nest of near Taun- 

 ton, 265, 306 



„ Natal Fantail, 243 



,, Pointed-tailed Grass, 244 



Beed, 48 ; in S. Wales, 319 

 „ Saffron-breasted Grass, 243 

 ,, Sedge, 48 

 ,, Short-tailed Bush, 246 

 ,, Smith's Fantail, 244 

 ,, South African Beed, 246 

 ,, Stripe-throated Beed, 245 

 ,, Tawny-flanked Grass, 243 

 „ Tawny-headed Bush, 246 

 ,, White-breasted Beed, 245 

 Waxbill, Blue-breasted, 300 

 ,, Common, 299 

 „ Dufresne's, 300 

 „ Sanguineous, 300 

 Waxwing near Birmingham, 117 ; 



near Llanwrtyd, 132 

 Weaver-bird, Black-fronted, 257 

 ,, Cape, 256 



„ Smith's, 297 



,, Spotted-backed, 297 - 



Whale, White, 406 

 Whales, 405 



Wheatear, 48, 430 ; variety of, 352 

 ,, Capped, 211 

 ,, Mountain, 211 

 ,, Southern Ant-eating, 210 

 Whimbrel, 408 

 White-eye, Cape, 247 

 Whitethroat, 49 



„ Lesser, 49 



Whooper, 368 

 Widow-bird, Dominican, 297, 460 



,, Long-tailed, 298 



Wigeon, 288 



" Wigeon," the etymology of, 110 

 Wildfowl breeding at Bainworth, 



Notts, 309 

 " Wild Turkey," 424 

 Woodcock, 214; habits of the, as 

 observed in Ireland, 307 ; nest of, 

 368 ; nesting of, 391 



