XX111 



Sparrow-hawk and hobby breeding toge- 

 ther, 3276 

 Sparrow, house, and early breakfast-shop, 



3138 

 Sphingida?, descriptions of larvse of, 3100, 



3158, 3241 

 Sphinx Convolvuli, note on, 3241 ; in 



Scotland, 3288 

 Spider, stratagem of, 3222 

 Spongiadae, ciliary action in, 3008 

 Spoonbill in Yorkshire, 3278; at Hails- 

 ham, 3258 



Squirrel, 3169 



Star, knotty cushion, 3001 



Stint, little, at Scilly, 3279 ; at Pevensey, 

 3279; Temminck's, at Newhaven, 

 3279 



Stoat in white coat, 3102 



Stoat and leveret, anecdote of, 3274 



Stork, white, in Scotland, 3035 



Sturgeon in rivers, 2991 ; common, in 

 White Cliff Bay, 3119 ; in the Mer- 

 sey, 3157 



Sucker, 3157 



Sun-fish, short, 3001, 3280; on the Nor- 

 folk coast, 3058 



Surnia nyctea, 2982 



Swallows and martins, death of, 2988 



Swan, mute, in the Leamington Gardens, 

 3208 ; remarks on, 2343 



Swifts, late sojourn of in 1850, 3115, 3173 



Tenthredo, new British, 3163 



Tern and turnstone, notes on, 3073 



Tern, Caspian, near Lausanne, 3209 ; gull- 

 billed, note on, 3235 ; Caspian, at 

 Yarmouth, 3235 ; whiskered, at Scilly, 

 3280 



Tetratoma Desmarelsii, new localities for, 

 3102 



Thaumantias Howqua, 3096 



Thrush, song, anecdote of, 3033 



Tinearist's Calendar for April, 3089 



Titmouse, cole, variety of, 3055 



Toad in difficulties, 3210 ; found in a flint, 

 3265 



Toads buried alive, 3266 



Totanus hypoleucos, 3023 



Trichiosoma lucorum, note on, 3149 



Trochilium Chrysidiforme in Hampshire, 

 3289 



Trout, 3228 



Trycheris mediana, note on, 3185 



Turdus torquatus, 3026 



Turnstone and tern, notes on, 3073 



Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 3156 



Uria grylle, 3083 



Ursus arctos, 3187 

 „ Gulo, 3225 



Variety, gray, of rook, 3034 ; of the cole 

 titmouse, 3055; of the knot, 3116; 

 of sparrow-hawk, 3276 ; of hedge- 

 sparrow, 3276 ; of rook, 3278 



Vespa Germanica, clxxvii 

 „ vulgaris, clxxvi 



Wagtail, gray-headed, at Eastbourne, 3 145; 

 at Great Yarmouth, 3174 



Warbler, blackcap, 2985 ; in winter, 3033 ; 

 blue-throated, 3043 ; Orpheus, de- 

 scription of, 3107; Dartford, habits 

 of, 3113 ; further notes on, 3276; 



Wasps, anecdote of, 3164 ; note on the 

 scarcity of, 3185 



Water-rat, note on, 3265 



Waxwing, observations on, 3049 ; killed 

 in Northumberland, 3146 ; near Bi- 

 shop Auckland, 3146; late appearance 

 of, 3146 



Waxwing, Bohemian, 3084 ; in Shetland, 

 3174 ; American, in Great Britain, 

 3277 



Weasel and frog, anecdote of, 3273 



Whale, capture of, off Lynn Regis, 3134 



Whidah finch, yellow-backed, in England, 

 3300 



Whinchat at Scilly, 3276 



Wolf, 3224 



Wood, on the tensions developed among 

 the tissues of, 3214 



Woodcock breeding in Sussex, 2989, 3115; 

 at the Land's End, 3300 



Woodpecker, hairy, description of, 2985 ; 

 note on the figure of, 3034 ; greater 

 spotted, 3115; great black, in Essex, 

 3278 



Wolves suckling children, 3299 



Wrasse, ballan, 3210 



Wren, nesting of, 3146, 3207 



Zoological Society, Proceedings of, 3002, 

 3037,3066, 3090, 3121, 3148, 3176, 

 3210, 3267, 3290, 3308 

 Zoology, marine, of the Moray Firth, 2996 ; 



of California, 3297 

 Zootoca vivipara, on the femoral plates or 

 scales of, 3071 



