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235, 263, 300, 442 ; in Northumber- 

 land, 299 ; in Norway, 425 ; in Not- 

 tinghamshire, 234 ; in Oxfordshire, 

 234, 468 ; in Pembrokeshire, 265 ; in 

 Scandinavia, 267 ; in Scotland, 263 ; 

 in Somersetshire, 266; in Spain, 

 301; in Suffolk, 263, 309; in 

 Warwickshire, 468; in Wexford, 

 301 ; in Yorkshire, 234, 263, 298, 

 299, 348 



Guillemot, Black, in the Isle of 

 Man, 429 



Gull, Herring, hatching a fowl's egg 

 and feeding on mice, 186 



Gulls, and Plovers, in captivity, 145 ; 

 on the Thames at Kingston, 188 



Habits, nesting, of the Whitethroat, 

 311 ; of Manx Shearwater, 426 ; of 

 Turtle Dove, 427 ; unrecorded, of 

 Starling, 431, 469 



Haddock, note on, 270 



Hare, and Fox, in unwonted prox- 

 imity, 182; leaping powers of, 

 259; number of young at birth, 

 259 



Harrier, Montagu's, nesting in Dor- 

 setshire, 270 



Hawfinch, food of, 148, 187; near 

 Harrogate, 230 ; nesting in Nr- 

 folk, 391 



Hebrides, Outer, Fauna of, 424 



Hesperomys versus Mus, 223 



Hobby, taking insects on the wing, 

 67 



Hoopoe, note of, 147 ; in Hampshire, 

 268; and Turtle Dove in Co. 

 Waterford, 226 



Hybrid, between Goat and Sheep, 

 104 ; Eats, 141 



Jay in Co. Kildare, 32 ; in Wexford, 

 67 ; distribution of in Ireland, 106 



Kestrel nesting in house, 269 ; food 

 of, 269, 303; nesting of, and of 

 Peregrine, 392 



Kite in Glamorganshire, 188 



Kites in Dorsetshire, 267 



Lark, Shore, and Bay's Wagtail in 

 confinement, 147; Short-toed, in 

 Sussex, 350; Sky, albino, and 

 Starling, 185 _ 



Lapwing, European, in Island ot 

 Barbados, 301 



Le Moines' ' Clef des Champs ' (1586), 

 314 



"Lobster," antiquity of name for 

 Stoat, 65, 102 



Mackerel, Spanish, off Penzance, 271 

 Magpies attacking weakly Donkey, 



184, 226 

 Mammal, a new Australian, 424 

 Marine Fauna and Flora, definition 



of term British as applied to, 102 

 Meles taxus, 1 



Merlin breeding near Brecon, 429 

 Mice, Herring Gull feeding on, and 



hatching a fowl's egg, 186 ; versus 



Cockroaches, 466 

 Monkeys opening Oysters, 19 

 Moose, European and American, 



identity of the, 20 

 Mole, habits of, 21 ; varieties of in 



Durham, 22; variety of, 184; 



white variety of, 387 

 Mollusca of Ireland, 237 

 Mollusks, British, new list of, 69 

 Mongolia, plague of Eats in, 142 



Nest of Swallow, curious site for, 25 ; 

 Dipper in at ree, 309, 351 ; Thrush, 

 Eedstart nesting in, 352 



Nesting of Starling in November, 33 ; 

 Linnet in October, 105 ; Montagu's 

 Harrier in Dorsetshire, 270 ; Gar- 

 den Warbler at a height from the 

 ground, 306; supposed, of the 

 Green Sandpiper in Norfolk, 306 ; 

 Nuthatch, in a sandbank, 309 ; 

 Dipper, in trees, 309, 351, 392; 

 Eedstart in a Thrush's nest, 352 ; 

 Swallows in-doors, 355 ; Black 

 Eedstart in Essex, 390 ; Hawfinch 

 in Norfolk, 391; Peregrine and 

 Kestrel, 392 ; Corn Bunting, late, 

 429 ; curiosities in, 308 



Nesting habits of Whitethroat, 311 



Nests, Swallows', position of, 25 ; 

 Birds', Squirrels robbing, 105 



Newt, Palniated, in Carnarvonshire, 

 394 



Nightingale in London, 225 



Note on the Haddock, 270 



Notes on the Seal and Whale fishery 

 of 1887, 121 ; on Birds in Lanca- 

 shire, 310 ; on Birds of Cumber- 

 land, 328 ; on Pallas's Sand Grouse 

 in Norfolk, 442 ; on the Ornithology 

 of Northamptonshire and neigh- 

 bourhood, 456 ; from Dorsetshire, 

 428; field, from North Lincoln- 

 shire, 241 ; from Eutlandshire, 304 ; 

 from Western Australia, 28, 191 



