CONTENTS. XV 
Societies ScIENTIFIC :— 
Entomological, 80, 120, 186, 216, 
257, 304, 343, 372, 420, 458, 494 
Linnean, 32, 115, 184, 252, 493 
Zoological, 36, 117, 185, 215, 255, 
303, 342 
Sparrow, Tree, in Skye, 3866; in 
Arran More, 489 
Sparrowhawk, 163 
Sparrowhawks’ eggs, 370 
Spatula clypeata, 201 
Speed of Swallows, 299 
Spheride, 449 
Spherium ovale, 449 
Spoonbill in Co. Kerry, 73; former | 
nesting ofin Middlesex (with plate), 
1 
Squirrel, habits of, 24; variation of 
colour in the, 67, 456; variety of, 
178, 211 
Star Fish, rare, off Aberdeen, 371 
Starling, 16; in Arran More, 489 
Steganopodes, 196 
Stercorarius catarrhactes, 411; cre- 
pidatus, 411; pomatorhinus, 411 
Sterna dougalli, 409; fluviatilis, 409; 
macrura, 409 
Stoats and Weasels—do they kill 
Moles ? 456 
Stork, White, 198 
Stint, 329; Little, 329; Temminck’s, 
330 
Strepsilas interpres, 328 
Strigide, 159 
Strix flammea, 159 
Sturgeon at Hastings, 77 
Sturnide, 16 
Sturnus vulgaris, 16 
Sula bassana, 196 
Swallow in Co. Sigo in November, 
72; nesting in a tree, 486 
Swallows dying of cold in May, 249, 
300; speed of, 299; nesting upona 
hanging lamp, 416; perching on 
an angler’s rod, 417 
Swan, Mute, 200; colouring on the 
head of, 487; Wild, 200 
Swift, 19; White-bellied, 20 
Syrnium aluco, 161 
Tachybaptes fluviatilis, 414 
Tadorna cornuta, 200 
Teal, Common, 201 
Tern, Arctic, 409; Black, 409 ; Com- 
mon, 409; Roseate, 409 
Terns, Lesser, breeding on the Ke- 
raghs, Co. Wexford, 369 
Tetrao tetrix, 236 
Tetraonide, 236 
Tinnunculus alaudarius, 166; ves- 
pertinus, 166 
Titlark’s nest, three Cuckoo’s eggs 
in, 368 
Totanus canescens, 330; fuscus, 330; 
glareola, 330 
Tringa alpina, 329; minuta, 529; 
subarquata, 830; temminckii, 330 
Tringoides hypoleucus, 330 
Trout, American Lake, acclimatisa- 
tion of in England, 251; large, in 
the Hampshire Avon, 183 
Tubinares, 411 
Turnstone, 328 
Turtur communis, 234 
Upupa epops, 22 
Upupide, 22 
Vanellus vulgaris, 327 
Variation of colour in the Squirrel, 
67; of plumage in the Corvide, 73 
Varietal nomenclature, 29 
Varieties, white, of Chamois, Otter, 
and Fox, 104; of common birds, 182 
Variety of Fieldfare, 72 ; of Squirrel, 
178, 211; of Mole, 832; of Short- 
tailed Field Mouse, 332 
Vertebrata, 385 
Vertebrate animals of Leicestershire, 
16, 159, 196, 238, 326, 409 
Vertebrates, median eye in, 239 
Viper swallowing its young, 340, 370 
Vole, black yariety of Short-tailed, 
332; pied variety of Short-tailed, 
485 
Voyage of the ‘ Eclipse’ to the Green- 
land Seas, 50 
Wagtail. Pied, curious nesting-place 
of, 295 
Wagtails, two Cuckoos fed by one 
pair of, 415 
Warbler, Grasshopper, in Co. Mayo, 
366; in Wicklow, 490; Icterine, 
supposed occurrence in Co. Wick- 
low, 383; in Pembrokeshire, 334; 
remarks upon, 365; Yellow-browed, 
in Shetland, 487 
Wasps’ nests in Ceylon, 420 
Weasels and Stoats—do they kill 
Moles ? 456 
Whale, Blue, 126; Sowerby’s, on the 
Yorkshire coast, 70; White, on the 
coast of Devon, 3864 
Whales, dead, in the English Chan- 
nel, 105 
