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213; breeding on the Blasquets, 
Co. Kerry, 3867; Leach’s 411; 
Storm, 411, at Skomer Island, 457, 
in Gloucestershire, 488 
Phalacrocorax carbo, 196 
Phalarope, Grey, 328 
Phalaropus fulicarius, 328 
Phasianide, 234 
Phasianus colchicus, 234 
Pheasant, 235; cock, screaming of, 
218, 249; of St. Helena, 225; 
Partridge, and Wild Duck laying 
in the same nest, 295; and Wild 
Duck laying in the same nest, 299; 
and Black Grouse, hybrids between, 
338 
Philosophy of Natural History, 102 
Pica rustica, 17 
Picarie, 19 
Picide, 20 
Pigeon, Passenger, 234 
Pintail, 200 
Pipit, Richard’s, in Scotland, 26; 
Tawny, at Brighton, 490 
Planorbis complanatus, 449 
Platalea leucordia, 81 
Plegadis falcinellus, 198 
Plover, American Golden, in Scot- 
land, 26; Golden, 327; Ringed, 
327, abnormal nesting of, 418 
Plumage, variation ofin the Corvide, 
73; of Kestrel, changes in, 110,180 
Plumes, destruction of birds for, 179 
Pochard, 201; Red-crested, 489 
Podiceps auritus, 414 ; cristatus, 413; 
griseigena, 413 ; nigricollis, 414 
Podicipide, 413 
Porphyrio chloronotus and P. ceru- 
leus in the British Isles, 71 
Porzana maruetta, 237; parva, 237 
Pratincole, Collared, 326 
Procellaria leucorrhoa, 411 ; pelagica, | 
411 
Procellariide, 411 
Puffinus anglorum, 411 
Pulmonobranchiata, 449 
Pygopodes, 412 
Quail, 235 
Querquedula circia, 200; crecca, 201 
Rabbits and the past winter, 241; 
young, destruction of by Rats, 241 
Rail, Water, 236; variation in size 
of, 338, 368 
Rallide, 236 
Rallus aquaticus, 236 
Rat, Water, curious capture of, 211 
CONTENTS. 
Rats, destruction of young Rabbits 
by, 241 
Raven, 19 
Ray, Sting, at Hastings, 77 
Rays, food of the, 28 
Recurvirostra avocetta, 328 
Redpoll, Lesser, breeding of, 298 
Redshank breeding in Kent, 248; 
in Chatham Dockyard, 332, and 
Snipe laying in the same nest, 248; 
Spotted, 330 
Redstart, Black, in London, 74 
Redwing nesting in Kent, 369 
Rissa tridactyla, 410 
Robin, albino, 298; a white-tailed, 
491 
Rook, 18 
Rooks, young, with white chins, 339; 
nesting on chimney-tops, 365; 
nesting in church spires, 457 
Rorqual, Common, 127; Rudolphi’s, 
128 
Salmonide, sexual characters in the, 
215 
Sanderling, 330 
Sandpiper, Common, 330; Curlew, 
330; Green, 330; Wood, 330 
Saxicola stapazina and its allies, 193 
Scaup, 201 
Scolopacide, 328 
Scolopax rusticula, 328 
Scoter, Common, 202; in Skye, 488; 
Velvet, in Nottinghamshire, 182 
Seal and Whale fishery, notes on, 98 
Sharks, Porbeagle, at Plymouth, 114 
Shearwater, Manx, 411 
Sheldrake, Common, 200; Ruddy, 
near Limerick, 335 
Shells, British Marine, new List of, 
77 
Shoveller, 201; breeding in Notting- 
hamshire, 364 
Shrew, Common, food of, 26 
| Siskin, a resident in Co. Wicklow, 
489 
Skua, Arctic, habits of as observed in 
Caithness, 180; Common, 411; 
Pomatorhine, 411; Richardson’s, 
411 
Smew, 202 
Snails, experiments to test the 
strength of, 491 
Snipe, Common, 329; Great, 328; 
Jack, 329; and Redshank laying 
in the same nest, 248 
Soaring Bird, the problem of the, 
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