CONTENTS. 



XI 



Blackcap in Co. Waterford in De- 

 cember, 27 ; in January, 236 

 Black-veined White, scarcity of, 197 

 Bleak, 60 

 Blind-worm, 68 

 Bluetln-oat in Norfolk, 70 

 Boidai, 174 

 Boodon lineatus, 178 



Books reviewed : — 



Letters on Sport in Eastern Ben- 

 gal, by Frank B. Simson. 36 



Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk, 

 by Churchill Babiugton, D.D., 

 38 



British Birds' Eggs ; a Handbook 

 of British Oology, by A. G. 

 Butler, 40 



A Nomenclatm-e of Colours for 

 Naturalists, and Compendium 

 of Useful Knowledge for Or- 

 nithologists, by Robert Ridgway, 

 278 



Die Waldschnepfe ; Ein Mono- 

 graphischer Beitrag zur Jagd- 

 zoologie, von Dr. Julius Hoff- 

 mann, 313 



A Year with the Bkds, by an 

 Oxford Student, 316 



A Bibliography of the Books re- 

 lating to Fancy Pigeons, by 

 T. B. Coombe Williams, 319 



Rough Notes on the Birds observed 

 during Twenty Years' Shooting 

 and Collecting in the British 

 Islands, by E. T. Booth, 358 



Ocean Birds, by J. F. Green, 395 



Report on the Migration of Birds 

 in the Spring and Av;tumn of 

 1886, by a Committee of the 

 British Association, 397 



The Mammoth and the Flood, by 

 Henry H. Howorth, M.P., 438 

 Brambling, varieties of the, 74 

 Bream, Common, 60 ; Ray's, at 



Scilly, 393 ; White, 60 

 Breeding of Arctic birds in Scotland, 



21 ; of Red-throated Diver in Co. 



Donegal, 27 ; of Cnl Bunting near 



Godalming, 303 ; habits of Siskin 



as observed in Co. Wicklow, 338 ; 



of Fork-tailed Petrel on islands off 



Co. Kerry, 349; of the Tufted 



Duck in Aberdeenshire, 427, 465 ; 



supj)osed, of the Great Northern 



Diver in the Fseroe Islands, 464 

 Bucephalus capeusis, 177 

 Bugs, fish-destroying, 101 



Bimting, Cirl, breeding near Godal- 

 ming, 303 ; Corn, mimicry of, 300 ; 

 Snow, on Ben Nevis in summer, 

 28, — breeding in confinement, 391 



Burbat, 59 



Bustard, Little, in Sussex, 111 



Buzzard, Honey, in Dorset, 350 



Carp, 69 



Cat attacked by a Swallow, 345 



Caterpillars, usefulness of Rook in 



destroying, 109 

 Cattle, Wild White, present condition 



of the existing herds, 401 ; in 



South-Western Scotland, 448 

 Causus rhombeatus, 180 

 Chaffinch, song of, 299, 348,— in 



autumn, 431 

 Chiffchaff 's nest, curious site for, 304 

 Chiroptera, British species of, 157 

 Choristodon concolor, 176 

 Chub, 60 

 Claws, shedding of in the Ptarmigan 



and allied birds, 268 

 Cliff-birds at Dover, 294 

 Cobitis tienia, 60 

 Coloration of the Viper, 306, 858 

 Colubridae, 58, 174 

 Coot, wing-spm- of the, 107 

 Cormorants roosting on a church, 



388 

 Coronella cana, 175 ; phocarum, 



175 

 Cottidse, 59 

 Cottus gobio, 59 



Courser, Cream-coloured, in Cardi- 

 ganshire, 269 

 Crab, Livid Swimming, at Penzance, 



309 

 Crake, Spotted, in Shetland, 72 

 Craneflies preyed upon by Gulls and 



Terns, 356 

 Crenilabrus exoletus at Penzance, 308 

 Crossbills at Rynn, Queen's Co., Ill, 



— in Kent, 432 

 Crustacea, British Stalk-eyed, notes 



and observations on, 146 ; fi'om 



the Channel Islands, 433 

 Curlew, Eqquimaux, at Scilly, 388 

 Cyclopterus lumpus at Scilly, 196 

 Cypriuidte, 59 

 Cyprinus carpio, 69 



Dace, 60 . 



Dasypeltis scabra, 179 

 Dendraspis angusticeps, 179 

 Dippers, young, taking to the water, 

 269 



