CONTENTS 



XV 



Starling, albino, and Sky Lark, 185, 

 — nesting in November, 33, — mi- 

 micking other birds' notes, 226, — 

 unrecorded habits of, 431, 469 



Starlings in Ireland, 107 



Stevenson, Mr. Henry, death of, 

 345 



Stoat, antiquity of the name " Lob- 

 ster " for, G5, 102 ; seasonal change 

 of colour in, 184 



Stoats, on the assumption of the 

 ermine dress in, 141 



Stork, white, at Scarborough, 269 



Swallow, curious site for nest of, 25 



Swallows, position of nests of, 25 ; 

 the speed of, 308 ; nesting in-doors, 

 355 



Swan, Bewick's, in Pembrokeshire, 

 32 



Swannery, visit to Lord Ilchester's, 

 at Abbotsbury, 306 



Swans with white cygnets, 470 



Swifts laying in Martins' nests, 68 



Tern, Gull-billed, and Fulmar Petrel 



at Hunstanton, 351 

 Thrush, Eedstart nesting n nest of, 



352 

 Thrushes, Eock, in their native 



haunts and in captivity, 353 

 Tit, Great, song of, 303 

 Trout, tame Duck preying on, 225 ; 



Ducks preying on, 268 



Varieties of, Mole in Durham, 22 ; 



common Wild Duck, 68 ; common 



birds in Yorkshire, 352 

 Variety of Mole, 184 ; white, of 



Mole, 387 

 Vespertilio mystacinus, 161, 222, 441 ; 



and V. bechsteinii in Hampshire 

 and Staffordshire, 260 



Vole, Bank, in Durham, 23; in 

 Yorkshire, 23 ; in Nottingham- 

 shire, 23 ; in Sussex, 24, 346 ; in 

 Leicestershire, 65 ; in Suffolk, 105 ; 

 in Shropshire, 184 ; in Surrey and 

 Yorkshire, 298 



Volume, projected, on birds of Essex, 

 432 



Wagtail, Grey-headed, and Firecrest, 

 at Brighton, 225 ; Ray's, and Shore 

 Lark in confinement, 147 ; White, 

 in Norfolk, 229 



Warbler, Garden, nesting at a height 

 from the ground, 306 



Wasps, Solitary, and Bees, instincts 

 of, 384 



Waterhouse, the late Mr. G. R., 

 memoir of, 99 



Weasel, courage and sagacity of the, 

 140 



Weasels, for New Zealand, 21 ; killing 

 Frogs, 140 



Whale, and Seal Bshery of 1887, 121 ; 

 Swedenborg's, 269 



Whales, Bottle-nose, on the Norfolk 

 coast, 387 



Whimbrel in Somersetshire, 67 



Whitethroat, nesting habits of, 311 



Wildfowl in Bingwood. Hants, 185 



Wolves, in France, 64; nurturing 

 children in their dens, 87, 221 



Woodchat in Wilts, 429 



Woodpecker, Great Black, in Berk- 

 shire, 107 ; Great Spotted, and 

 Grey Shrike, at Brighton, 147 



Wryneck in Shetland, 32 



