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CONTENTS. 



Harrier in Dorsetshire, 464; of 

 Lesser KedpoU and Hawfinch in 

 Berkshire, 466 



Nesting-site, imnsual, for the Tree 

 Sparrow, 265 ; for Wryneck, 299 



Nests, Birds', Bees occupying, 238, 

 273 ; Plovers', with five eggs, 267, 

 349; of Thrushes without the 

 usual lining, 268 ; open, of the 

 StarHng, Stock Dove, and Tawny 

 Owl, 347 ; Martins', Swifts nesting 

 m, 348, 391, 428 ; open, of Tawny 

 Owl and Stock Dove, 432 



Nightingale singing in July, 306 ; in 

 Scotland, 384 



Nika Couchii, 147 ; eduhs, 145 



Noctule, northern limit of the range 

 of the, in Great Britain, 260 



Notes on a voyage to the Greenland 

 Seas in 1866, 48, 94, 121 (with 

 plate) ; on Bats in North Lincoln- 

 shu-e, 142 ; on the Seal and Whale 

 fishery of 1886, 182 ; on the Orni- 

 thology of Northamptonshire and 

 neighbourhood, 249, 452 ; on the 

 Fauna of Iceland, 254; from 

 Western Australia, 352 



Octopus at Penzance, 309 ; Hawaiian 

 mode of fishing for, 354 



Ophidia, 58 



Ornithological notes from Brecon- 

 shire, 298 ; from Devon and Corn- 

 wall, 375 ; from Hiinstanton, Nor- 

 folk, 384 ; from Mayo and Sligo, 

 296; from Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 415; from North Norfolk, 140; 

 from Oxfordshire, 288, 301 



Ornithology of Northamptonshhe 

 and neighbourhood, 249, 452 



Osprey in Hertfordshire, 390 ; cap- 

 tm-ed in the Bristol Channel, 433 



Otters, young, in August, 67 



Ouzel, Ring, note, 305 



Owl, Tawny, open nests, 347 ; and 

 of Stock Dove, 432 



Owl, Bats preyed upon by, 426 



Partridges with "white horse-shoes," 



108 

 Pearl fisheries of Austraha, 289 

 Perca fluviatilis, 59 

 Perch, 59 

 Percidae, 59 

 Petrel, Fulmar, near Hastings, 28 ; 



Fork-tailed, breeding on islands 



off Co. Kerry, 349; Storm, in 



London, 27 



Petromyzon fluviatilis, 61 



Petromyzontidse, 61 



Phalaropes near Hastings, 28 ; Grey, 

 in Ireland, 75 



Pheasant and Woodcock laying in 

 same nest, 194 



Philothamnus hoplogaster, 176 ; 

 natalensis, 176 



Physostomi, 59 



Pigeons, Wood, casting up pellets, 

 193, 236 



Pipit, Tawny, near Brighton, 432; 

 Tree, note, 433 



Pisces, 59 



Plecotus, genus, 165 



Plecotus auritus, 66, 294 



Plover, Norfolk, nesting in Notting- 

 hamshire, 269 



Plovers' nests with five eggs, 276, 349 



Plumage of the Tufted Duck, 112, 

 235; of the Kestrel, 112, 113, 154 



Pochard, White-eyed, m Norfolk, 195 



Pollack, facts m the life-history, 241 



Porphyrio, Green-backed, 195 



Psamophis crucifer, 176 ; sibilans, 

 176 



Psammophylax multimaculatus,175 ; 

 rhombeatus, 170 



Ptarmigan, former existence of in 

 South-West Scotland, 81, 194; 

 alleged existence of in Cumber- 

 land, 153 ; and allied birds, on the 

 shedding of the claws in the, 258 ; 

 and Goldeneyes of Iceland, 422 



Pufhn in London, 263; on the 

 Thames in July, 263; Pied, at 

 St. Kilda, 347 ; and Whimbrel in 

 Somersetshire, 466 



Python natalensis, 174 



Rabbit destruction in Australia, cost, 



293 

 Rail, Water, wing-spiu-, 107 

 Rat, Brown, change of habits, 189, 



234; Black, in Wexford, 425; 



Musk, and the Unio, 425 

 Razorbill at St. ICilda, 347 

 Red-deer as observed in confinement, 



growth of antlers, 321 ; a herd of 



from a single hmd, 344 

 Redpoll, Lesser, nesting in Sm-rey, 



69— in Middlesex, 428,— in Berk- 



shke, 466 

 Redshank, Spotted, in the Moy 



Estuary, 468 

 Redstart, Black, in Co. Waterford, 



196 ; laying spotted eggs, 303 

 Reptilia, 57 



