CONTENTS. 
Crows, oaks planted by, 338 
Crustacea, British Stalk-eyed, notes 
and observations on, 170 
Cuckoo, 23; facts in the life-history 
of, 203; notes on the, 243; female, 
note of, 244; young, ejecting the 
young of its foster-parent from the 
nest, 245; feeding its young, 246 ; 
three eggs ofin a Titlark’s nest, 3868 
Cuckoos, two, fed by one pair of 
Wagtails, 415 
Cuculide, 23 
Cuculus canorus, 23 
Curlew, Stone, 326, 331 
Cursorius gallicus, 326 
Cygnus musicus, 200; olor, 200 
Cypselide, 19 
Cypselus apus, 19; melba, 20 
Dafila acuta, 200 
Davis Lectures, 294 
Dendrocopus major, 20; minor, 21 
Diver, Black-throated, 412; Great 
Northern, 412; Red-throated, 412 
Dolphin, White-beaked, at Lowestoft, 
364 
Dotterel, 327 
Dove, Ring, 233; Stock, 234; Turtle, 
234 
Duck, Common Wild, moulting of 
the flight-feathers in, 228; Harle- 
qnin, 202; King, British example 
of at Oxford, 335; Tufted, 201; 
Wild, 200; Pheasant, and Partridge 
laying in the same nest, 295 ; Wild 
Duck and Pheasant laying in the 
same nest, 299 
Eagle, Golden, 162; Sea, recent oc- 
currence of in Kent, 27; White- 
tailed, 162; in Shropshire, Mon- 
tagu’s record of, 487 
‘Eclipse,’ voyage of to the Greenland 
Seas, 50 
Ectopistes migratorius, 234 
Edward, Thomas, the Banffshire 
Naturalist, death of, 238 
Eggs of Cuckoo in a Titlark’s nest, 
368 ; Sparrowhawks’ 370 
Hider, King, at the Farne Islands, 76 
Emberiza melanocephala in Notting- 
hamshire, 73 
Emu, habits of as observed in con- 
finement, 337 
Eudromias morinellus, 327 
Falco «salon, 166; peregrinus, 165; 
subbuteo, 165 
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Falcon, Iceland, in Skye, 367 ; Pere- 
grine, 165; Red-footed, 166 
Falconide, 161 q 
Fauna, Marine Invertebrate of Ire- 
land, recent contributions to, 1; 
of Dublin Bay, preliminary report 
on the, 6 
Field notes from Northern Iceland,149 
Fieldfare, variety of, 72 
Finch, Citrel, at Brighton, 490; Serin, 
in Norfolk, 27 
Finches, hybrid, 109, 182 
Fish ova, American, importation of, 
183 
Finwhale fishery of 1885 on the 
North European coast, 121 
Flycatcher, Spotted, how it subsists 
in hard weather, 295; fearlessness 
of, 366 
Food of the Common Shrew, 26; of 
the Rays, 28 
Foraminifera of Galway, 1; in the 
Irish sea, 2; found off the coast of 
Dublin’and in the Ivish sea, 2 
Fox, white, in Germany, 104; in 
Somersetshire, 104, 331 
Frog, enemies of the, 340 
Fulica atra, 237 
Fulicarie, 236 
Fuligula cristata, 201; ferina, 201; 
marila, 201 
Gallinago ceelestis, 329; major, 328 
Galline, 234 
Gallinula chloropus, 237 
Game, Black, in Herefordshire, 250; 
sale of out of season, 238 
Gannet, 196 
Garganey, 200 
Garrulus glaudarius, 16 
Gastropoda, 450; marine, observa- 
tions on, 78 
Gavi, 409 
Gecinus viridis, 21 
Geese, Brent, coming inland, 215; 
Egyptian, on the River Taw, 76 
Glareola pratincola, 326 
Glareolide, 326 
Genus Hematopus or Oystercatchers, 
41 
Godwit, Bar-tailed, 3831; 
tailed, 331 
Goldeneye, 201 
Goosander. 202 
Goose, Bean, 199; Brent, 199; near 
Ringwood, 213; Canada, 199; 
Kgyptian, 198; Grey Lag, 199; 
White-fronted, 199 
Black- 
