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Porbeagle shark, capture of, 3712 



Porcellana platycheles, note on, 3514 



Porcupine, note on, 3707 



Pratincole in Devonshire, 3710 



Pride, 3488 



Procellaria heesitala, 3693 



Pterophorus lithodactylus, 3625 



Pupa of* an insect bearing resemblance to 



an Aphis, 3407 

 Raia Batis,3488 

 „ clavata, 3488 

 „ oxyrhynchus, 3488 

 „ radiata, 3488 

 Raphides, on the structure of, 3407 

 Ratcliffe Society, 3408 

 Rats, anecdote of, 3473 

 Ray, sharp-nosed, 3488 : starry, 3488 

 Red-poll, common, note on, 3511 

 Redshank, spotted, at Selborne, 3330 

 Redstart, tameness of, 3329 ; black at 



Brighton, 3329, 3388 ; near Oxford, 



3476 ; in Sussex, 3476 ; nest and eggs 



of, 3503 

 Regalecus Glesne, 3460 ; at Cromarty, 



3660 

 Regulus, fire-crested, near Penzance, 3388, 



3453 

 Reindeer, 3380 



Reptiles, tenacity of life in, 3332 

 Rhombus maximus, 3486 



„ vulgaris, 3486 

 River Solimoens, some account of, 3590 

 Rockling, three-bearded, 3485 ; five-beard- 

 ed, 3485 

 Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 



proceedings of, 3340, 3370 

 Salmo Eriox, 3461 

 „ Fario, 3462 

 „ ferox, 3462 

 „ Salar, 3461 

 „ saHelinns, 3462 

 „ Trutta, 3461 

 Salmon, 3461 

 Sandpiper, inquiry respecting a species of, 



3330 ; curlew, at Fleetwood, 3331 ; 



described by Mr. Reid, note on, 3388 ; 



wood, at the Land's End, 3454 ; at 



Yarmouth, 3504 

 Scad, 3459 



Scomber Scomber. 3459 

 Sc) Ilium Canieula, 3487 

 Scymnus borealis, 3488 

 Sea scorpion, 3458 

 Seal at the UnderelifT, 3326 

 'Search fot Franklin,' notice of, 3557 

 Sea-serpent, reported capture of, 3426 

 Sebastcs Norvegicus, 3466 

 Serpents, venomous, experiments with 3668 



Sesia Fuciformis, 3335 



Shad, twaite, 3482 



Shanny, notes on tbe habits of, 3513 



Shark, blue, 3487 ; fox, 3487 ; Greenland, 



3488 ; spinous,3488 ; porbeagle, 3712 

 Shells, water, 3390 ; land, 3392 ; British 



marine, found on the coast of Deal, 



3395 

 Shore lark breeding in Devonshire, 3707 

 Shrike, great gray, at Hailsham, 3388 ; 



great ash-coloured, in Norfolk, 3475 

 Singular capture of the Porbeagle shark, 



3712 

 Siskin, nesting of in confinement, 3707 ; 



breeding in Ireland, 3708 

 Skate, 3488 



Skua, pomarine, at Hastings, 3331 

 Smelt, Hebridal, at Redcar, 3504 

 Snipe, great, at Botley, 3330 

 Society of British Entomologists, proceed- 

 ings of, 3342, 3369,3502, 3532, 3631, 



3720 

 Sole, 3486; variegated, 3375; common, 



variety of, 3660 

 Solea vulgaris, 3486 

 Solen, notes on the habits of, 3472 

 Spawn offish, taken out to Hobart Town, 



3504 ; of Gasterosteus leiurus, 35263 

 Spider, curious action in, 3333 ; anecdote 



of, 3492; hunting, anecdote of, 3633 

 Spiders, on the method of preserving, 3676 

 Sporting by steam, 3712 

 Sprat, 3487 

 Stickleback, 3458 ; fifteen-spined, 3458 ; 



in confinement, 3635 

 Stint, little, at Fleetwood, 3331 

 Stork, white, near Yarmouth, 3476 

 Sturgeon, 3487 

 Sucker, bimaculated, 3486 

 Sula bassana, 3712 



Sun fish, short, 3487 ; oblong, 3487 ; cap- 

 ture of, at Illfracombe, 3579 

 Swans breeding at the age of two years, 



3536 

 Swift, alpine, at St. Leonard's, Sussex, 



3330 

 Sylvia turdoides, note on the proper name 



of, 3511 

 Sylvia suecica, 3709 

 Syngnalhus Acus, 3487 



„ Lumbricus, 3487 



„ Ophidian, 3487 



Tachypus pallidipeunis, 3335 

 Teal, American, at Scarborough, 3472 

 Teneriffe, visit to, 3441 

 Tern, lesser, near Mount's Bay, 3453 ; 



gull-billed, at Scilly, 3536 

 Thalassicola, supposed, note on 3408 



