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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Abraxas ulmata, artificial introduction of, 



at Bolton-le-Moors, 2857 

 Acherontia Atropos, larva of, at Stafford, 



2930 

 JEchmia Stanneella, 2783 

 Agapete carissima, 2976 

 Agasma semicrudum, cxvii 

 Akiptera Semiflava, 2975 

 Alauda arborea, 2736 

 Alligators, interesting; fact on some, 2655 

 Ampbibia, British, some remarks on, 2655 

 Anas acuta, 2949 

 „ boscbas, 2949 

 „ clangula, 2950 

 „ crecca, 2949 

 „ ferina, 2949 

 „ glacialis, 2949 

 „ bistrionica, 2949 

 „ Penelope, 2949 

 „ Tadorna, 2949 

 Anatidae, rare, in Sussex, 2773 ; near 



Bishop Auckland, 2773 

 Ancbylophora cuspidana near Birming- 

 ham, 2858 

 Anecdote of the honey-bee, 2899 

 Animal and vegetable kingdoms, relations 



between, 2868 

 Animals, representations of, on Greek and 



Boman coins, 2900 

 Anser albifrons, 2822 

 „ Bernicla, 2822 

 „ canadensis, 2822 

 „ pbcenicopus, 2736 

 „ segetum, 2822 

 Anthrax bistella, xcvii 

 Anthrocera, the genus, 2749 

 Aphis apposita, ciii 

 „ Diantbi ? ciii, civ 

 „ diminuta, ciii 

 „ Jacobsea?, civ 

 „ lata, ciii 

 Apion Sedi at Southend, 2935 

 Arachnoidiscus, structure of tbe siliceous 



loricae of the genus, 2673 

 Ardea cinerea, 2795 

 „ stellaris, 2795 

 Argyresthia aurulentella, 2752 



„ spiniella, 2751 



Ariou ater, eggs of, 2935 

 Asemuni striatum at Benfrew, 2885 

 Atherix Ibis, 2677 



Auk, little, at Weston-super-mare, 2653 ; 

 at Newmarket, 2706; near Malvern, 

 2706 ; at Crawley, 2970 

 Bat, foreign, in Orkney, 2695 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 2813 

 Bates, H. W., extracts from the corres- 

 pondence of, 2663,2715,2789,2836, 

 2940, 2965 

 Bats flying by day, 2637 

 Bats, remarks on, 2814 

 Bee-eater at Icklesham, 2953 

 Bee, honey, curious anecdote of, 2899; 



queen, impregnation of, 2960 

 ' Bee-keeper's Manual,' 2922 

 Bees devoured by hedgehog, 2637 ; in- 

 crease and decrease in the weight of a 

 hive, 2680, 2758 ; humble, and their 

 parasites, 2681 ; raising an artificial 

 queen, 2720 ; do they always select a 

 residence prior to swarming ? 2758 ; 

 the way they open the snapdragons, 

 2963 

 Bimia femoralis, 2975 

 Birds, taken in Pembrokeshire, 2639 ; 

 migratory flights of, on tbe north coast 

 of Cyprus, 2654 ; water, on the power 

 that they possess of remaining partially 

 submerged in deep water, 2675 ; mi- 

 gratory, arrival and departure of, in 

 Oxfordshire, 2737 ; first thoughts on a 

 physiological arrangement of, 2780 ; 

 physiological classification of, 2797; 

 rare, near Bridgwater, 2848 ; unneces- 

 sary destruction of, 2878, 2914, 2951 ; 

 British, notice of Catalogue of, 2917 

 Birds and birds' nests in Aberdeenshire, 



2642 

 Birds' eiigs, preservation of, 2648 

 Birds of Oxfordshire and its neighbour- 

 hood, 2736; of Melbourne, 2793, 

 2817,2949; of Roxburghshire, 2872 

 Bittern, 2795 ; at Walthamstow, 2771 

 Blackbird, varieties of, 2765, 2851 

 Blackcap, imitative power in, 2849 

 Boar-fish in the bay of Portland, 2789 ; 



at Bridgewater, 2856 

 Bracbopsis concolor, 2974 

 Brachytria gulosa, 2975 

 Bream, Bay's at Redcar, 2971 

 Bucculatrix cristatella, 2784 

 Bunting, cirl, in Norfolk, 2651 : pied 



