CONTENTS. 
Marten, Pine, in Scotland, 105 
Martens in Herefordshire, 240 
Merganser, Hooded, British examples 
of at Oxford, 835; Red-breasted, 
202 
Mergulus alle, 414 
Mergus albellus, 202; merganser, 
202; serrator, 202 
Merlin, 166 
Martin, Sand, unusual site for nest 
of, 3836 
Migration of birds, 106, 179 
Milvus ictinus, 164 
Mole, variety of, 332 
Moles, do Stoats and Weasels kill ? 
456 
Mollusca, aquatic, 449; of the Skel- 
ligs and Valentia, 418; of Ponte- 
fract and neighbourhood, supple- 
mentary remarks on, 448; terres- 
trial, 450 
Monkeys swimming, 483 
Monster, marine, in Mount’s Bay, 
Cornwall (with plate), 207 
Moorhen, 237 
Mouse, Short-tailed Field, black 
variety of, 332; pied variety of, 485 
Natural History, the philosophy of, 
102, and sport in the Himalayas, 
286, 319, 393, 481 
Nest of Sand Martin, unusual site 
for, 336 ; of Titlark, three Cuckoos’ 
eggs in, 368 
Nesting, former, of Spoonbill in Mid- 
dlesex (with plate), 81; of Rooks 
on chimney-tops, 365 ; of Redwing 
in Kent, 369; of Barn Owl in a 
dovecote, 369; of Swallows upon 
a hanging lamp, 416; of Wigeon 
in Yorkshire, 416; abnormal, of 
Ringed Plover, 418; of Rooks in 
church spires, 457; of Swallowsin 
a tree, 486 
Nesting-place, curious, of Pied Wag- 
tail, 295 
Nests, winter, 72; birds’, edible, 336; 
Wasps’, in Ceylon, 420 
Newt, Palmated, in Epping Forest, 
’ 250; in Lancashire, 250 
Nightingale near London, 243 
Nightjar, 20 
Nomenclature, varietal, 29 
Note of the female Cuckoo, 244 
Notes on the Seal and Whale fishery, 
98; field, from Northern Iceland, 
149 ; on the Cuckoo, 243 ; wayside, 
from the Continent, 354 
Xill 
Numenius, a review of the species of 
the genus, 137 
Numenius arquata, 331; arquatus, 
144; arquatus lineatus, 144; bore- 
alis, 147; cyanopus, 148; hud- 
sonicus, 146; longirostris, 148; 
minor, 147; phzopus, 145, 331; 
pheopus variegatus, 145; tahiti- 
ensis, 146; tenuirostris, 145 
Nutcracker in Hampshire, 182 
Nycticorax griseus, 197 
Oaks planted by Crows, 338 
Cidemia nigra, 202 
CGidicnemide, 326 
(Adicnemus scolopax, 326 
Opah or King Fish in Shetland, 341 
Oriole, Golden, in the Channel Is- 
lands, 242 
Ornithological notes from Brecon- 
shire, 214, 417; from Germany, 
246; from Mayo and Sligo, 296; 
from Merionethshire, 75; from 
Norfolk and Suffolk, 471; from 
North Norfolk, 168, 890; from 
North Yorkshire, 297; from Ox- 
fordshire, 300; from South Cum- 
berland, 300 
Ornithology of Northamptonshire 
and neighbourhood, notes on, 465 
Osprey, 167 
Otter, white, in Germany, 104 
Otters near Salisbury, 67 
Ouzel, Ring, breeding on the Malvern 
Hills, 490 
Owl, Barn, 159; nesting in a dove- 
cote, 369; Long-eared, 160; Short- 
eared, 161; Tawny, 161; Teng- 
malm’s, in Yorkshire, 214 
Oystercatcher, 41, 328 
Oysters, resting position of, 79, 114 
Pandion haliaétus, 167 
Partridge, Barbary, 234; Common, 
234; Pheasant, and Wild Duck 
laying in the same nest, 295 ; Red- 
legged, 284; and Grey Hen laying 
in the same nest, 298 
Pastor, Rose-coloured, 16 
Pastor roseus, 16 
Peach, Charles William, the late, 177 
Peachia hastata, the structure and 
habits of, 5 
Pelecanide, 196 
Perdix cinerea, 284 
Peregrine on the Kentish coast, 336 
Pernis apivorus, 164 
Petrel, Fork-tailed, near Ringwood, 
