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CONTENTS. 
268; of Lesser Black-backed Gull, | Plover, Norfolk, peculiarity in bill, 
312; of Thrush on ground, 437 
Nesting habits of Black-eyebrowed 
and Wandering Albatrosses, 26 
Nesting-place of Larus fuscus, 131 
Nests, Jackdaws nesting in old, of 
Magpies, 230; of Thrush without 
usual lining, 312 
Note on Willow Wrens, 105 
Notes on a voyage to the Greenland 
Sea in 1888, 1, 41, 95; on Natural 
History on board ship, 22; on the 
occurrence of Pallas’s Sand Grouse 
in Lancashire, 51; on London birds, 
69; on the Seal and Whale fishery 
of 1888, 121; on birds observed at 
sea, 146; on the reptiles of Bar- 
bados, 295; on the Ornithology of 
Northamptonshire and neighbour- 
hood, 422; from Breconshire, 148; 
from South Wales, 888; from 
Western Australia, 267; field, from 
Western Sweden, 126 
Notornis Mantelli, on the survival of 
in Western Otago, 301 
Nutcracker, Crossbill, and Sand 
Grouse in Norfolk, 75; in Lincoln- 
shire, 158; on the HKastern and 
Western forms of, 441 
Observations on a Japanese spider, 438 
Oriole, Golden, in Derbyshire, 352; 
in Kent, 254 
Ornithological notes from Lowestoft, 
221; from Mayo and Sligo, 262; 
from Norfolk, 18, 134, 334; from 
Norfolk coast, 9; from Wexford, 
144; from Yorkshire, 149 
Osprey, former nesting of in England, 
256; in Richmond Park, 485; on 
the Thames, 455 
Otters and Badgers in Surrey, 22 
Ouzel, Ring, breeding in Orkney, 35 
Owl, Scops, in Co. Waterford, 313 
Owls, Short-eared, breeding in Essex, 
453 
Pandion haliaétus, 256, 485, 455 
Parrot Crossbill in Ireland, 181 
Pastor, Rose-coloured, in Kent, 184 
Peripatus in Victoria, 111 
Petrel, Wilson’s, in Isle of Wight, 150 
Pigeon, Wood, roosting with dovecot 
Pigeons, 395 
Pigs used as sheep-dogs in Italy, 433 
Pintail, early appearance of, 436 
Plants, distribution of by frugiferous 
Bats, 179 

259; breeding in Notts, 312; in 
Essex in January, 106; Ringed, 
nesting of, 263 
Plumage, of Crossbill, 318; Crossbill 
breeding in immature, 229, 263, 
850, 391 
Podiceps cristatus, 18 
Production of colour in birds’ eggs, 
206, 248 
Rabbit pest, 143 
Rabbits, on the methods adopted in 
New Zealand for the destruction 
of, 323 
Ramble round Simla, 361 
Rat, Black, in Cornwall, 434, 450 
Raven and Kite nesting in South 
Wales, 226 
Redshank, Dusky, in summer plu- 
mage, in Lancashire, 109; Spotted, 
in Co. Sligo, 85,—and Hoopoe, in 
Kent, 435,—near Harwich, 454 
Redstart in Co. Waterford, 455 ; nest- 
ing in December, reported, 106,— 
of Black, in Essex, reported, 151, 
182; in Durham, 183 
Reptiles of Barbados, notes on, 295,— 
addendum to list of, 352 
Ring Ouzel breeding in Orkney, 35 
Roach and Bleak, hybrid between, 
111 
Roe-deer (with plate), 81 
Roller at Rainham, 83; in Kirkcud- 
brightshire, 393 
Rooks in Isle of Wight, 75 
Sand Grouse, see Grouse, Pallas’s 
Sand 
Sandpiper, Green, in Glamorganshire, 
73; Pectoral, in Ireland, 32,— 
weight of, 73, 109,—in Orkney, 452 ; 
Wood, in Suffolk, in June, 313 
Scarcity of House Martin in Hamp- 
shire, 152 
Scoter, Surf, in Ireland, 32; Velvet, 
in Leicestershire, 455 
Sealand Whale Fishery of 1888, notes 
on, 121 
Seals and sealers, 253 
Sheldrake near Oxford, 458, and Wild 
Duck, hybrid between, 314 
Shearwater, Manx, food of, 24, 74, 
351; habits of, 74 
Sheep-dogs, Pigs used as in Italy, 433 
Shells, basal coloration of, in Helix 
hortensis and H. nemoralis, 272 
Shoveller nesting in Cumberland, 187 
