CONTENTS. 



Vll 



Feilden, Col. H. W. 



Additions to the Avifauna of the 

 Faeroe Islands, 73, 351; Chff- 

 birds at Dover, 294 ; Late stay 

 of Martins, 467 

 Fitzgerald, F. E. 

 Albino birds observed in the Har- 

 rogate district, 110 ; Hawfincli 

 at Harrogate, 153 ; Blackbird 

 laying in Thrush's nest, 194 ; 

 House Martins nesting in 

 October, 194 

 Flemyng, Eev. William, M.A. 

 Black Eedstart in Co. Waterford, 

 196 

 Fortune, Eiley 



Puffin on the Thames in July, 263 

 Bees occupying bu-ds' nests, 273 

 Hawfinch in Yorkshire, 299 

 Long-eared Owl laying in Book's 

 nest, 304 

 Frere, Eev. H. T., M.A. 



Supposed appearance formerly of 

 Ptarmigan in Cumberland, 153 ; 

 Plumage of the Kestrel, 154 

 Garriock, J. T. 

 Curlew Sandpiper and Spotted 

 Crake in Shetland, 72 

 Gatcombe, John (the late) 



Ornithological notes from Devon 

 and Cornwall, 375 

 Gawen, C. E., F.Z.S. 



Habits of Books, 268 

 Goldsmith, H. St. B. 



Puffin and Whimbrel in Somer- 

 setshire, 466 

 Goss, H., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



The song of the Chaffinch, 348 

 Gray, Eobert 



Notes on a voyage to the Green- 

 land Seas in 1886, 48, 94, 121 

 Griffin, G. W. 



The Pearl fisheries of Australia, 

 289 

 GuNN,_T. E., F.L.S. 



Ornithological notes from Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, 415 

 Gurney, J. H., F.Z.S. 



Wasp attacking a Tarantula, 310 ; 

 Open nests of the Starling, Stock 

 Dove, and Tawny Owl, 347 

 Gurney, J. H., Jun., F.Z.S. 



Varieties of the Brambling, 74 ; 

 Supposed assumption of male 

 plumage by a female Kestrel, 

 113; Ornithological notes from 

 North Norfolk, 140 ; The Green- 

 backed Porphyrio, 195 ; Hybrid 



Greenfinches, 266 ; The White- 

 winged Tern in Cornwall and 

 Scilly, 387 ; Occurrence in 

 England of the Caspian Tern, 

 457 



Hadfield, Capt. Henry 



Muscular power of Snails, 114 



Haigh, G. H. Caton 



Variety of the Wild Duck, 69; 

 Habits of the Green Sandpiper, 

 110 ; Notes on Bats in North Lin- 

 cohishire, 142 ; Lesser Horse- 

 shoe Bat in Wales, 152 ; Lump- 

 sucker on the Welsh coast, 273 ; 

 Bats found in Merionethshire, 

 293 



Hamling, J. G. 



Cat attacked by a Swallow, 345 ; 

 Cormorants roosting on a chiurch, 

 388 



Harcourt, G. W. 



Notes from Osfordshii-e, 301 



Harper, E. P. 



Sooty Shearwater at Flamborough, 

 430 ; Uncommon birds near 

 Scarborough, 467 



Harting, J. E., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Horse-shoe Eats, 1 ; Storm Petrel 

 in London, 27 ; Eeported occur- 

 rence of the Citril Finch near 

 Brighton, 72 ; Death of Eobert 

 Gray, 106 ; Eemarks on British 

 Bats, 161 ; Change of habits in 

 the Brown Eat, 189 ; Death of 

 John Gatcombe, 233 ; Northern 

 limits of the range of the Noctule 

 in Great Britain, 260; The 

 sleep of the Dormouse, 281 ; 

 Herd of Eed-deer from a single 

 hind, 344; White Stoat in 

 Aiigust, 345 ; Coloration of the 

 Viper, 353 ; On the Bank Vole, 

 Arvicola glareolus, 361 ; The 

 Grampus or Killer on the coast 

 of Norway, 383 ; Snow Bunting 

 breeding in confinement, 391 ; 

 Mode in which Vipers are 

 killed by the Hedgehog, 392; 

 Squirrels at a distance fr"om 

 trees, 424 ; Troglodytes par- 

 vulus a migrant, 431 ; The 

 Mole, Talpa europaea {Linn.), 

 441 



HOOTON, A. 



Cream-coloured Courser in Car- 

 diganshire, 269 

 Irby, Lieut. -Col. L. H. 

 Bats in winter, 69 



