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CONTENTS. 



233 ; Black-throated Diver, 233 ; 

 Hawfinch, 304 ; Eared Grebe, 

 304 ; Robin, 467 

 Suffolk — Effect of thunder on 

 Pheasants, 78; Scorpoena dacty- 

 loptera, 79 ; Woodpeckers, 99 

 Surrey — Vanessa antiopa, 26; Pur- 

 ple Gallinule, 475 

 Sussex— Gull, 22 ; Little Gull, 23 ; 

 Heronry near Beckley, 100, 229 ; 

 Red-throated Pipit, 101, 193 ; 

 Hen and Marsh Harriers, 144; 

 ornithological notes, 234, 408 ; 

 Anthus cervinus, 256 ; Cuckoo, 

 259 ; Wall Creeper, 302 ; Squirrel, 

 349, 432 ; Osprey, 359 ; Red- 

 necked Phalarope, 386 ; Richard- 

 son's Skua, 386 ; Pomatorhine 

 Skua, 386, 475 ; Stoat, 432 ; 

 Stone Curlew, 475 ; Peregrine 

 Falcon, 475 

 Warwickshire — The extinct Philip 

 Island Parrot, 355 ; Manx Shear- 

 water, 385 ; White Stork, 385 

 Westmoreland — Cuckoo, 383 

 Wiltshire — Cream-coloured Cour- 

 ser, 434, 438 

 Yorkshire — Stoat, 75 ; Hedgehog, 

 76 ; Rana esculenta, 146 ; Night- 

 ingale, 304; Cuckoo, 305; Pogge, 

 306; Short Sunfish, 307, 390; 

 Squirrels and Strawberries, 350; 

 Whiskered Bat, 350; ornithologi- 

 cal notes, 387 ; larvae of Death's 

 Head Moth, 391 ; Sorex araneus, 

 432 ; Macqueen's Bustard, 433 

 Courser, Cream-coloured, in Wilts, 

 434, — on Salisbury Plain, 438, — in 

 Jersey, 435, 438 

 Crab with supernumerary claw, 28 

 Crake, Baillon's, 164 

 Crane, a, southward flight, in autumn, 



145 

 Creeper, Wall, breeding of, 290 ; in 



Sussex, 302 

 Crossbill in Norfolk, 173 ; in Oxford- 

 shire in August, 224 

 Crows, hybrid, 77 ; rookery destroyed 



by, 144 

 Crustaceans obtained during * Chal- 

 lenger' Expedition, 28 

 Cuckoo, Great Spotted, in Norfolk, 

 466; Yellow-billed, 120; in Algeria, 

 132 ; pure white, 174 ; egg on 

 ground, 259, 305, — in Rock Pipit's 

 nest, 260 ; note of, 336 ; habits in 

 confinement, 357 ; hunts for nest, 

 374 ; mode of feeding, 383 



Cuculus c-anorus in Algeria, 132 

 Curlew, Stone, in Sussex, 475 

 Cyanecula suecica in Norway, 426, 446 

 Cybister roeselii and Dytiscus latis- 

 simus, so-called secondary wing 

 in, 109 

 Cygnus buccinator at Woburn Park, 



367 

 Cypselus apus and C. melba in Al- 

 geria, 129 



Darter at Woburn Park, 367 



Darwin, Charles, portrait of, 235 



Deaths from wild animals, 359 



Deer, Burmese, 147; Musk, 34; Red, 

 in Scotland, 154,— in Holland, 330, 

 333,— of the Alps, 312, 317,— Para- 

 site on, 154 ; Roe, 312, — in Holland, 

 330, 333, — annual bag, in Austria 

 and Hungary, 318, — abnormal 

 heads of, 318 ; at Woburn Park 

 (Chinese Water, David's, Equine, 

 Japanese, Manchurian, Michie's, 

 Mule, Musk, Pampas, Spotted), 

 363, 364, 365 



Dendrocopus himalayensis, 236 ; ma- 

 jor, 236 



Dendroeca aestiva, 341 ; tigrina, 9 



Dipper in Holland, 332 ; Black- 

 breasted, in Norfolk, 466 



Diptera, flower-haunting, 110 ; para- 

 sitic, 154 ; of St. Vincent, 155 



Dissura episcopus, 106 



Diver, Black-throated, in Norfolk, 

 178, — in Somersetshire, 233, — in 

 Finland, 371 ; Great Northern, in 

 Norfolk, 169 ; Red-throated, in 

 Northamptonshire, 50 ; White- 

 billed Northern, in Norfolk, 14 



Dolphin, Bottle-nosed, in Thames, 

 143, 192 ; in Esk, 378 



Dolphins, freshwater, in Lower Ama- 

 zons, 265 



Dormouse, extinct Giant, of Malta, 

 28 ; in Northamptonshire, 58 



Dotterel in Norfolk, 175 ; on Romney 

 Marsh, 251 ; statistics concerning, 

 274 ; nestling in down, 293 



Dove, Rock, in Algeria, 130 ; Stock, 

 on cliffs at Hastings, 234 ; Turtle, 

 in Algeria, 130, — increase in Lin- 

 colnshire, 259, 303 



Dragonflies in Somaliland, 198 ; col- 

 lection of cast nymph-skins, 478 



Dragonfly, monstrosity in, 154 



Duck, Eider, in Gloucestershire, 101 ; 

 Golden-eye, in Outer Hebrides, 

 141 ; Labrador, 384 ; Long-tailed, 



