CONTENTS. 
Shrike, Great Grey, near Ipswich, 
144,—in Holderness, 234,—in Not- 
tinghamshire in April, 394 
Shufeldt’s classification of the Macro- 
chires, 456 
Simla, a ramble round, 361 
Sky Lark, hen, singing in confine- 
ment, 269 
Smew in Perthshire, 33 
Snake swimming, 438 
Snipe, Solitary and Sabine’s, in Ire- 
land, 83; white, 35; drumming of, 
315 
Societies, ScrenTIFIC :— 
Linnean, 36, 77, 112, 155, 188, 237, 
278, 316, 456 
Zoological, 37, 79, 118, 157, 191, 237, 
274, 354, 457 ; 
Entomological, 39, 80, 114, 159, 193, 
239, 295, 317, 355, 399, 489, 458 
Cambridge Entomological and Field 
Naturalists’ Club, 142 
Solway Fish hatchery, 345 
Somateria spectabilis, 883 
Spider, Japanese, observations on, 438 
Spoonbills in Kerry, 455 
Squirrel, Pied, in Norfolk, 68; 
breeding in church-tower, 226 
Starling, the extinct, of Réunion, 310, 
385 
Starlings in the City, 262 
Stilt, Black-winged, in Scotland, 387 
Stone Curlew breeding in Notts, 312; 
Peculiarity in bill, 259; in Essex 
in January, 106 
Suborbital pits of Indian Antelope, 
177 
Swallows, training, as letter-carriers, 
397 
Swannery at Abbotsbury, 348 
Swifts, systematic position of, 91 
Teal, Blue-winged, in Cambridge- 
shire, 228 
Tern, Lesser, in Glamorganshire, 391; 
White-winged Black, near Salis- 
bury, 393 
Testacella haliotidea (var. scutellum) 
in Renfrewshire, 236 
Thick-knee in Essex in January, 
106 
Thrush and Blackbird laying in same 

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nest, 265; nests of, without usual 
lining, 312; nesting on ground, 437 
Titmouse, Bearded, 291 
Tringa canutus in Barbadoes, 455 
Twite, colourless eggs of, 389 
Variety, fawn-coloured, of Mus decu- 
manus, 144; pied, of Coot, 153; 
curious, of Woodcock, 153; Limngxa 
involuta probably of L. peregra, 
154, 235; of eggs of Grey Wagtail, 
265; of Red Grouse and Landrail, 
393 
Vermin, so-called, and Game, destruc- 
tion of, 348 
Vespertilio daubentonii, 161; nat- 
tereri, 241 
Viper, Lizard swallowed alive and 
rejected by, 234 
Voyage to the Greenland Sea, notes 
on, 1, 41, 95 
Wagtail, Grey, eggs of, 231 
Wagtails, Pied, two laying in same 
nest, 391 
Warbler, Garden, Hedgesparrow try- 
ing to mate with, 270; Marsh, in 
Somersetshire, 450; Sedge, unusual 
site for nest, 35; Wood, at Cley, 77 
Waterfowl, hybrid, 260 
Weasel, white, in New Forest, 449 
Weight of Pectoral Sandpiper, 73, 109 
Whale and Seal fishery of 1888, notes 
on, 121 
Whiting, Pollack, large, off Land’s 
End, 488 
Wild Birds Protection Act, conviction 
under, 351 
Wildfowl and game in the Paris 
markets, 66 
Woodcock, curious variety, 153; 
American, and its mode of feeding, 
395 ; carrying its young, 454 
Woodcocks, 149, 183, 238 ; weight of, 
233 
Woodpecker, Great Black, in England, 
340, 481, 463 
Wren, Common, food of, 184; Wil- 
low, note on, 105 
Zoological Gardens, Manatee at, 299 
Zoological Society, see Societies. 
