CONTENTS. 
Greenland Sea, notes on a voyage to, 
1, 41, 95 
Grouse, Pallas’s Sand, Protection Act, 
60; breeding of in Britain, 383; in 
Ayrshire, 184; in Berlin, 59; in 
Cornwall, 108; in Co. Clare, 34; in 
England (north-west), 72; in Fife- 
shire, 388; in France, 57; in Ger- 
many, 227; in Glamorganshire, 
228; in Hampshire, 72; in Heligo- 
land, 56; in Holland, 56; in Italy, 
56; in Kent, 108; in Lancashire, 51; 
in Lincolnshire, 34, 184; in Livonia, 
59; in Middlesex, 227; in Mecklen- 
burg, 266; in Norfolk, 75; in North- 
amptonshire, 72; in Norway, 60; 
in Nottinghamshire, 351; near Red- 
car, 146; in Saxony, 60; in Schles- 
wig, 57; in Silesia, 59; in Surrey, 
227; in Sweden, 60; in Thuringia, 
59; in Westphalia, 60; in Yorkshire, 
72, 108, 266; Red, and Landrail, 
varieties of, 393 
Gull, Black-headed, breeding-place of 
in King’s Co., 396; Lesser Black- 
backed, nesting of, 812; Little, in 
Glamorganshire, 25, 77,—near Pen- 
zance, 107,—in Cornwall, 234 
Habits of Great Crested Grebe, 18; 
nesting, of Black-eyebrowed and 
Wandering Albatrosses, 26, 337,— 
of Cuckoo, 260 
Haddock, food of, 36 
Hares, white, in Nottinghamshire, 143 
Harrier, Hen, in Essex, 144; Mon- 
tagu’s, in Suffolk, 314 
Hawks devouring prey on wing, 185 
Hedgesparrow trying to mate with 
Garden Warbler, 270 
Helix hortensis and H. nemoralis, 
basal coloration of shells in, 272 
Heredity, Prof. Weismann’s Essays 
on, 225 
Hobby nesting in Scotland, 32 
Hooper and Spotted Redshank in 
Kent, 435 
Hybrid between Roach and Bleak, 
111; waterfowl, 260; between Shel- 
drake and Wild Duck, 314; between 
Bernicle and Bar headed Goose, 394 
Jackdaws, audacity of, 230; nesting 
in old Magpies’ nests, 230,—on 
open boughs, 312 
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Kestrel, nest of, on wheatstack, 232 
Kite in Suffolk, 234; nesting of in 
South Wales, 226 
Knot, in Barbadoes, 455 
Landrail, and Red Grouse, varieties 
of, 393 
Larus fuscus, nesting-place of, 181 
Limnea involuta, probably variety or 
L. peregra, 154, 235 
Lizard swallowed alive and rejected 
by Viper, 234 
Loxia curvirostra, var. rubrifasciata 
(Bonap. & Schl.), in Ireland, 266; 
in Norfolk, 391 
Macrochires, classification of, 456 
Magpie, number of eggs laid by, 184; 
Jackdaws nesting in old nests of, 
230 
Mammal, new Australian, 105, 144 
Manatee at the Zoological Gardens, 
299 
Martin, House, scarcity of in Hamp- 
shire, 152 
Merganser, Red-breasted, in Hasex, 
4 
Mollusca in neighbourhood of Lon- 
don, 271; of Stourport and district, 
353 
Motella cimbria on Norfolk coast, 
270; maculata, as an Irish fish, 154 
Mus decumanus, fawn-coloured var. 
of, 144; hibernicus, restored to the 
British Fauna, 201,—the so-called 
(with plate), 321, 381 
Natterjack, Bullfrog preying on, 270 
Nest, unusual site for Sedge War- 
bler’s, 85; materials in Hooded 
Crow’s, 35; of Kestrel on wheat- 
stack, 232; Blackbird and Thrush 
laying in same, 265; two Pied Wag- 
tails laying in same, 391; two 
birds laying in same, 486 
Nesting of Hobby in Scotland, 32; 
reported, of Redstart in December, 
106; of Black Redstart in Durham, 
183,—reported, in Hssex, 151, 182; 
early, of Goldcrest, 187; of Shovel- 
ler in Cumberland, 187; of Kite and 
Raven in South Wales, 226; of 
Crossbills in Suffolk and Norfolk, 
229; of Jackdaws in old Magpies’ 
nests, 230,—on open boughs, 312; 
of Little Grebe, 261,—early, in Co. 
Dublin, 231; former, of Osprey in 
England, 256; of Ringed Plover, 
