CONTENTS. 



XIX 



Stilt, Black-winged, in Norfolk, 168, 

 176 



Stilts in Norfolk, 176 



Stint, Temminck's, in Norfolk, 174 ; 

 on Romney Marsh, 247; in Fin- 

 land, 371 



Stoat, fecundity of, 297 ; white, in 

 mild winters, 75 ; habits of, 253 ; 

 change of colour in winter, 254, 

 432 ; climbing an elm sixty feet, 376 



Stork, African, 106 ; White, in War- 

 wickshire, 385 ; nest, with two 

 young, figured, 323 



Storks in Holland, 321 



Sun-birds and Humming-birds, me- 

 tallic colours of, 107 ; from Kili- 

 manjaro, 160 



Sunfisii in Filey, 390 ; Short, near 

 Scarborough, 307 



Swallow, white, in Northampton- 

 shire, 54, 55 ; albino, 305 



Swallows, evening assembling in 

 Canada, 342; migration, in Dorset, 

 389 



Swan, strength of wing, 356; Whoo- 

 per, in Northamptonshire, 51, — in 

 Norfolk, 171, 172,— in Oxfordshire, 

 225 ; Trumpeter, at Woburn Park, 

 367 ; Wild, in Northamptonshire, 

 225,— catching, 356 



Swift, Alpine, 294, — in Algeria, 129 ; 

 Northern Black-cloud, in Canada, 

 343 ; flight of, 467 



Swifts in Algeria, 129 



Sylvia atricapilla, 3, 4, 8, — in Algeria, 

 133, hortensis, 7 ; melanocephala in 

 Algeria, 126 ; orphea in Algeria, 126 



Tahr at Woburn Park, 363 

 Telegony, supposed case of, 477 

 Tephrosia bistortata, 439, 479 ; biun- 



dularia, 440 ; crepuscularia, 440 

 Termites in captivity in England, 440 

 Tern, Arctic, in Norfolk, 174 ; Black, 

 in Northamptonshire, 52, — in Nor- 

 folk, 173, 174, 175,— on Komnev 

 Marsh, 249; at Rye, 414; Coin- 

 mou, on Eomney Marsh, 249 ; 

 Lesser, on Rornney Marsh, 249, — 

 at Rye, 412 ; Sandwich, in Norfolk, 

 174, 175, — on Romney Marsh, 249; 

 White-winged Black, near Scar- 

 borough, 387 

 Terns in Norfolk, 378 

 Thickknee on Romney Marsh, 247> 

 248 ; extraordinary sense of smell, 

 248 

 Thrush, Gold-vented, in Ireland, 161 



it, Black-headed, 3 ; Blue, variation 

 of habit, 103 ; Great, in leathern 

 Indian bottle, 53, — food, 350; Lapp, 

 in Finland, 369 ; Marsh, in Canada, 

 344 ; Ultramarine, in Algeria, 132 ; 

 White-headed Long-tailed, 328 

 Toad, Surinam, 237 

 Tortoises, gigantic, from the Aldabra 



Islands, 238 

 Tour, ornithological, in Norway, 416 

 Tragopogon at Woburn Park, 367 

 Trepang fishery in Samoa, 439 

 Trichoptera, thoracic glands in larvae 



of, 148 

 Tringa temmincki in Norway, 458 

 Trocheta subviridis in Thames, 264 

 Trout, largest, caught in English 



waters, 359 

 Tsetse fly, 440 

 Turnstone in Norfolk, 173 

 Turtur communis in Algeria, 130 

 Tylops nigricauda, 29 



Uintacrinus, fossil crinoid, 29 

 Upupa epops in Algeria, 129 

 Uria Bruennichi, 255 ; troile, 255 



Vanessa antiopa in December, 26 



Variation, 279 



Variety of Sea Eagle, 86 ; Polia flavi- 



cincta, 154 ; Red Admiral, 350 ; 



Barn Owl, 473 ; Partridge, 472 

 Vespertilio rnystacinus in Carnarvon- 

 shire, 255 ; near York, 350 ; in Co. 



Fermanagh, 350 

 Vole, Bank, in Jersey, 98; Field, 



pattern of teeth, 237 

 Vulture, Egyptian, in Algeria, 123 ; 



Griffon, in Algeria, 123 ; Riippell's, 



238 



" Wagel," a Skua of some kind, 40 

 Wagtail, Grey-headed, in Norfolk, 

 172; White, in Mid-Wales, 25,— 

 on Sussex coast, 234, — in Holland, 

 329 

 Wales. — Ornithological notes from 

 Mid- Wales, 24 ; Newts in Denbigh- 

 shire, 147; Palmated Newts in 

 Radnorshire and Breconshire, 147 ; 

 nesting of Dunlin, 227 ; Whiskered 

 Bat in Carnarvonshire, 255 ; Lesser 

 Horseshoe Bat in Denbighshire, 

 255 ; Cuckoo's egg in Rock Pipit's 

 nest, 260 ; Nightingale, 260 ; Black- 

 game in Merionethshire, 350 ; Sa- 

 bine's Gull at Aberystwyth, 385 ; 

 Greater Horseshoe Bat in Merion- 



