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CONTENTS. 



prey, 263, 304, — feeding on Pieris 

 rapee, 429, — Slow-worm attacked 

 by, 307 ; Mistletoe, food, 427 



Thrush's nests without the usual 

 lining, 268 



Thymallus vulgaris, 61 



Tinea vulgaris, 60 



Tit, Marsh, the British, 379 



Toad, enemies of the, 392 



Trochilus colubris, nesting habits, 

 459 



Troglodytes parvulus a migrant, 431 



Tropidonotus natrix, 58 



Trout, Common, 61 



Tunny, at Penzance, 307 



Typhlopidae, 173 



Tyj)hlops bibronii, 174; capensis, 

 174; delalandii, 174; mossam- 

 bicus, 174 ; verticalis, 174 



Unio and the Musk Eat, 425 



Uriechis capensis, 176 ; microlepi- 

 dotus, 175 



Varieties of the Brambling, 74; of 

 common Wild Ducks, 111 ; paired, 

 of Jackdaw, 196 ; of the Viper, 237 



Variety of Wild Duck, 69 ; dark, of 

 Montagu's Harrier, in Hants, 352 



Vertebrate animals of Leicester- 

 shire, 57 



Vespertilio, genus, 164 



Verpertilio bechsteini, 162 ; dasyc- 

 neme, 162 ; daubentonii, 143, 293 ; 

 kuhlii, 66 ; murinus, 64, 161, — 

 reported occurrence of in Dorset- 

 shire, 234 ; mystacinus, 66, 294 ; 

 Nattereri, 64, 143 ; noctula, 63 ; 

 pipistrellus, 65, 293 ; Schreibersii, 

 65 ; serotinus, 65 



Vespertilionidse, 163, 167 



Vesperugo, genus, 163 



Vesperugo discolor, 162 ; noctula, 293 



Viper, varieties, 237 ; coloration,)306, 

 353 ^ 



Vipers, mode in which they are 

 killed by the Hedgehog, 306, 392 



Vipera arietans, 181 ; atropoides, 

 181 ; atropos, 181 ; berus, 68 ; 

 caudalis, 181 ; cornuta, 182 ; in- 

 ornata, 181 ; schneideri, 181 



Viperidse, 58, 181 



Vole, Bank (with plate), 361, — dis- 

 tribution, 425, — in Durham, 462, — 

 in Northamptonshire, 463, — in 

 Sussex, 462 ; Short-tailed Field, 

 albino specimen, 152 



Voyage to the Greenland Seas in 

 1886, 48, 94, 121 (with plate) 



Warbler, Marsh, in Gloucestershire, 

 nesting, 264 ; Sedge, nesting, 28 



Wasp attacking a Tarantula, 310 



Water in an aquarium, to purify, 

 292 



Waxwing in Aberdeenshire, 70 



Weasel, habits, 24 



Weasels killing Moles, 68 



Whale, Blue, 213 ; and Seal Fishery 

 of 1886, 183 



Wheatear, spring moult, 300 



Whimbrel and Puffin in Somerset- 

 shire, 466 



Wildfowl, habits and migrations, 3 



Wild White Cattle, British, present 

 condition of the existing herds, 

 401, — in South- Western Scotland, 

 448 



Wing-spur of the Coot, Moorhen, 

 and Water Rail, 107 



Woodcock and Plaeasant laying in 

 same nest, 194 



Woodpecker, Green, an egg-sucker, 

 351 



Woodpecker's nest. Dormouse in, 69 



Wryneck, unusual nesting-site, 299 ; 

 nesting in holes in the groimd, 391 



Young of the Hedgehog, 424 



LIST OF PLATES. 



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The Greater Horse-shoe Bat, Bhinolejphus ferrutn-eqioinum . 1 



Greenland Whale, BalcBiia mysticetus 121 



The Noctule, Vesperugo noctula 161 



The Long-tailed Field Mouse, Mus sylvaticus , . . 201 



The Bank Vole, Arvicola glareolus 361 



The Mole, Tal;pa europcea 441 



