CONTENTS, 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Atkinson, Rev. J. C, B.A. 



Submergence of the moorhen, 1325 ; 

 Ventriloquism in birds, 1371 ; Fur- 

 ther remarks on the submergence of 

 water-birds, 1395 

 Backhouse, W. 



Additions to Mr. Hogg's Catalogue 

 of Durham birds, 1261 

 Barclay, J. Gurnev 



Occurrence of Sphinx Convolvuli at 

 Lavton, 1512 

 Baker, W. 



Cattle mouthing bones, 1366 

 Banister, Rev. J. D., M.A. 



Remarks on the piscatory habits of 

 the polecat, 1244 

 Barlow, T. W. 



Cattle mouthing bones, 1206 ; Note 

 on the pheasant, 1500 ; Occurrence 

 of the gray goose and Cornish 

 chough near Holmes Chapel, 1501 ; 

 Note on some of the birds mention- 

 ed in Shakspere's plays, 1539 ; 

 Remarks on the migratory birds 

 in the vicinitv of Holmes Chapel. 

 1547 

 Bartlett, J. Pemberton 



Carnivorous propensity of the hedge- 

 hog, 1204 ; Is the black rat strictly 

 a native of Great Britain, or was it 

 like the brown rat, introduced into 

 Europe from Asia ? 1294 ; Extra - 

 ordinarv migration of butterflies, 

 1442 

 Bates, H. Walter 



Distribution of the species of Har- 

 palus and Ophonus, 1206 

 Bell, Robert John 



Occurrence of the white-winged cross- 

 bill at Derby, 1247; Of Steller's 

 western duck at Filby, 1249 ; Me- 

 morandum of the spawning of trout, 

 1264 



Benington Arthur 



Death's-head hawk -moth at sea, 1443 ; 

 Early arrival of the chiff-chaff at 

 Swansea, 1496 

 Birch, W. 



Occurrence of the hooded crow near 

 Stourbridge, 1550 

 Bladon James 



Remarkable instance of tenacity of 

 life, 1357; On the duration of *Hy- 

 menoptera in the larva state more 

 than one season, 1458 ; Occurrence 

 of the tern at Pont-y-pool, 1555 ; 

 Large sturgeon in the Usk, 1555 

 Bold, Thomas John 



Occurrence of Richard's pipit near 

 Newcastle, 1210 ; Carnivorous pro- 

 pensity of the common black slug, 

 1216 ; Capture of Coleoptera in the 

 North of England, 1237; Food of 

 slugs, 1503 ; Capture of the larva? 

 of Acherontia Atropos near Mor- 

 peth, 1508 ; Occurrence of the lo- 

 cust in the North of England, 1520 

 Bond, Frederick 



Flowers attractive to moths, 1341 ; 

 Occurrence of Sphinx Convolvuli 

 near Kingsbury, 1510; Occurrence 

 of the locust near Kingsbury, 1518 ; 

 at Duxford and Fulborne, 1521 

 Borrer, William Jun., F.L.S. 



Notice of the occurrence of the Vir- 

 ginian colin in Surrey, and of the 

 broad-billed sandpiper, and red- 

 necked phalarope in Sussex, 1394 

 Bramley, J. 



Occurrence of D. Livornica in Lon- 

 don, 1514 

 Bree, C. R., F.L.S. 



The nightingale in Monmouthshire, 

 1211; Carnivorous propensity of the 

 dragon-fly, 1240; Occurrence of 

 the grosbeak at Stowmarket, 1247; 



