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Sand Grouse in Britain in 1889, 
883; of Cirl Bunting near Godal- 
ming, 391 
Breeding-place of the Black-headed 
Gull in King’s Co., 396 
Brodrick, William, the late, 139 
Bullfrog preying on Natterjack, 270 
Bunting, Lapland, in Ireland, 76,— 
near Brighton, 144, 486; Cirl, in 
Glamorganshire, 233, — breeding 
near Godalming, 391 
Burbot off Yorkshire coast, 77 
Bustard, recollections of in Suffolk, 
107; Little, in Norfolk, 393 
Buzzard, Rough-legged, in Lanca- 
shire, 77 
Capreolus caprea, 81 (with plate) 
Cariacus clavaius, 372 
Chough in Pembrokeshire, 392 
Clupea finta, Cuv., at Killarney, 110 
Colour, production of in birds’ eggs, 
206, 248; change of in birds, caused 
by food, 394 
Coot, pied variety of, 153 
Crake, Spotted, near Glasgow, 392 
Crane near Colchester, 34; occurrence 
of in Essex, 434 
Crossbill in Norfolk, 75; breeding in 
immature plumage, 229, 263, 350, 
391,—in Co. Waterford, 180, 454; 
assumption of male plumage by 
female, 182; plumage of, 313 
Crossbills, invasion in east of France, 
70; in Ireland, 76; in Suffolk, 182; 
nesting in Norfolk and Suffolk, 229 
Crow, Carrion, scarcity in Norfolk, 
76; Hooded, materials in nest, 35 
Crustacea, Athanas nitescens in Ire- 
land, 236 
Cuckoo, hatching its own eggs, 215, 
219; habits of, 260; tameness of 
young, 392 
Curlew, Stone, breeding in Notts, 312; 
in Essex in January, 106; pecu- 
larity in bill, 259 
Cypselide, systematic position of, 91 
Day, the late Surgeon Francis, 306 
Deer, Red, acclimatisation in New 
Zealand, 24, 67; new, from Central 
America, 372 
Delphinus albirostris in River Colne, 
382 
Diomedea exulans, 337 
Dogs, wild, in New Zealand, 68 
Dove, Stock, nesting in Co. Antrim, 
309 

CONTENTS 
Drumming of Snipe, 314 : 
Duck, Wild, and Sheldrake, hybrid 
between, 314 
Eagle, Golden, strange capture of, 282 
Eagles, Golden, in Co. Galway, 31; 
destruction of, 109 
Eggs, number laid by Magpie, 184; 
on production of colour in birds’, 
206, 248; Cuckoo hatching its own, 
215; abnormal, of Grey Wagitail, 
231,—of Blackbird, 314; colourless, 
of Twite, 389 
Hider, King, as a Norfolk bird, 383 
Electric organs of fishes, 61 
Finwhale fishery off Lapland coast in 
1888, 281 
Firecrest, status of, as British bird, 
172; in Cumberland, 228 
Fish, Motella maculata as an Irish, 
154; a rare, on Norfolk coast, 
187 
Fish-hatchery, the Solway, 344 
Fishery, notes on Seal and Whale, ot 
1888, 121 
Fishes, electric organs of, 61; new 
British, 111 
Flamingo catching in Lower Egypt, 
136 
Flycatchers, pellets disgorged by, 265 
Flying-fish, Greater, off Cornish 
coast, 353 
Food of Manx Shearwater, 24, 74; 
of Common Wren, 184; of Alba- 
trosses, 387; change of colour in 
birds caused by, 394 
Fregilupus varius, 310 
Fulmar in Co. Sligo, 34; on Rathlin 
Island, 888 
Fur-bearing animals of Siberia, 68 
Gadwall in Somerset, 149 
Game and Wildfowl in the Paris 
markets, 66; and so-called vermin, 
destruction of, 348 
Gannets, diving powers of, 25, 151 
Garganey and other birds in Warwick- 
shire, 389 
Golderest, early nesting of, 187 
Goldeneyes at Rainworth, Notts, 312 
Goose, Bernicle and Bar-headed, 
hybrid between, 394 
Grebe, Great Crested, habits of, 18,— 
breeding in Scotland, 352, 386; 
Little, early nesting in Co. Dublin, 
2315; nesting of, 261 
Grebes, attitude of on land, 230; 
Eared, in Norfolk, 387 
