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CONTENTS. 



Nutcracker in Kent, 185 



Nuthatch nesting in a sandbank, 309 



Origin of the name "Lobster" as 

 applied to the Stoat, 20 



Oriole, Golden, and Stock Dove in 

 Cornwall, 302 ; at Harrow, 393 



Ornithological notes from Brecon- 

 shire, 144 ; from Dorsetshire, 227; 

 from St. Leonards, 332 ; from North 

 Lincolnshire, 59 ; from Mayo and 

 Sligo, 289 ; from Norfolk, 81 ; from 

 Norfolk coast, 131 ; from Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, 282; from Eedcar, 

 135 



Ornithology of Northamptonshire 

 and neighbourhood, 456 



Osprey in Barbados, 303 



Otter, on the winter breeding of the, 

 248 



Otters and Polecats in Suffolk, 183, 

 221 



Owls, attacks by, 351 



Parrot Crossbill in Devonshire, 105 

 Pearls and Pearl fisheries, 50 

 Peregrine, nesting of, and of Kestrel, 



392 

 Peripatus in New South Wales, 69 ; 



a forgotten species of, 109 

 Petrel, Bulwer's, 230 ; Fulmar, and 



Gull-billed Tern at Hunstanton, 



351 ; Storm, at Ipswich, 33 

 Phalarope, Grey, in Lincolnshire, 33 

 Pigeons, the art of training in the 



East, 167, 209, 252; Wood, in 



London Parks, 389 

 Plover, Golden, carrying its young, 



301 

 Plovers and Gulls in captivity, 145 

 Polecats and Otters in Suffolk, 183, 



221 

 Puffin, inland on fresh water, 308 



Babbit-pest at the Antipodes, and the 

 remedy proposed by M. Pastern 1 , 

 321 



Bats, hybrid, 141 ; a plague of in 

 Mongolia, 142 



Baven in Dorsetshire, 390 



Bay, Sting, at Penzance, 311, — in 

 Bosham Harbour, Sussex, 356 ; 

 Whip, in Co. Cork, 312 



Redstart, nesting in a Thrush's nest, 

 352 ; Black, Crossbills, and Brarn- 

 blings in South of Ireland, 189, — 

 nesting in Essex, 390, — in Meri- 

 onethshire, 430 



Beptiles, on the geographical distri- 

 bution of, 236 



Bobin, a double-yolked egg of the, 

 309 



Boe, a white, 298 



Book, moult in facial feathers, 224 



Books, young, with white chin-spots, 

 302, 355 



Borqual, Budolphi's, on the coast of 

 Essex, 466 



Rye, birds observed at, 27 



Sandpiper, Green, supposed nesting 

 of the, in Norfolk, 306 



Scoter, Velvet, at Exmouth, 426 



Scoters, Velvet, and Long-tailed 

 Ducks at Hunstanton, 148 



Seal and Whale fishery of 1887, 121 



Seals, injuries by, to the fisheries in 

 the Baltic, 128 ; decrease of, on 

 the coast of Greenland, 387 ; geo- 

 graphical distribution of, 401 



Serinus canicollis, the occurrence of 

 near Brighton, 108 



Shad, Twaite, on Cornish coast, 394 



Shearwater, Dusky, reported occur- 

 rence of in Dorset, 143 ; Manx, 

 near Croydon, 392, — on Skomer 

 Island, 367,— in Skye, 426, -on 

 the habits of, 372, 425., — diving of, 

 469— food of, 470 



Sheep and Goat, hybrid between, 

 104 



Shoveller and Bough-legged Buzzard 

 in Surrey, 352 



Shrike, Grey, and Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker at Brighton, 147, — in 

 Cumberland, 147 



Skua, Common, in Dorsetshire, 31, 

 66 ; Richardson's, in the island of 

 Barbados, 350 



Snail, how does a, crawl ? 149 



Societies, Scientific : — 



Entomological, 36, 72, 112, 154, 



196, 240, 276, 316, 357, 394, 432, 



472 

 Linnean, 33, 109, 151, 194, 237, 



272, 471 

 Zoological, 35, 70, 111, 152, 195, 



238, 274, 315 



Song of Great Tit, 303 



Sparus auratus at Penzance, 271 



Sparrow, Tree, breeding at Harrow, 



355,— in Middlesex, 425 

 Squirrel eating small birds, 65 

 Squirrels robbing birds' nests, 105 



