CONTENTS. 



XV 



Tern, Arctic, nesting in Finland, 334, 

 — breeding in Shetland, 349 ; Black, 

 in Wales, 451 ; Common, on Sal- 

 vage Islands, 416 ; Lesser, in Co. 

 Mayo, 270 ; Sandwich, on Upper 

 Thames, 190, — at Dungeness and 

 Pett, 306 

 Terns in Outer Hebrides, 235 

 Testacella haliotidea in Scotland, 436 

 Thick-knee in Sussex in winter, 68 

 Thyas, a new freshwater Mite, 156 

 Tit, Marsh, in Dumfriesshire, 349 ; 



Northern Marsh, in Finland, 328 

 Toad, Natterjack, in Dumfriesshire, 

 350 ; food of, 385 ; Surinam Water, 

 breeding. 75 

 Tomato on Salvage Islands, 408 

 Tritons devouring Newts, 310 

 Turnstone on Salvage Islands, 414 

 Twite nesting in confinement, 381 



Urus in Yorkshire, 121 



Vanessa cardui, 338, 340, — figured, 



339 

 Variety of Hawfinch, 72; Long-tailed 



Field Mouse, 175 ; Kabbit, 176 

 Varieties, albino and pied, 234 ; and 



races of Polecat, 366 

 Viper, variations, in Denmark, 60 

 Vole, Bank, in Cheshire, 173, — food 



of, 186, 227,— in Bedfordshire, 227, 



—in Anglesea, 302, — in Kent, 427 ; 



Field, in Cheshire, 172 ; Water, in 



Cheshire, 172 



Wagtail, Pied, migration of, 347 

 Wales. — Birds observed in South, 13 ; 

 Wild Cat, 18 ; Marten, 18 ; Polecat, 

 18, 286 ; Black Guillemot, 22 ; hy- 

 brid Swan, 24 ; Manx Shearwater, 

 72, 110, 188, 189 ; Birds of Mid 

 Wales, 129, 178, 221, 249 ; Cuckoo, 

 230 ; Pembrokeshire Birds in 1603, 



241; Dunlin, 275; Grasshopper 

 Warbler 305; Black Tern, 381, 

 451 



Warbler, Barred, in Humber District, 

 57, — in Norfolk, 69, — Garden, in 

 Wales, 134 ; Grasshopper, in Wales, 

 134, 305 ; Marsh, date of arrival, 

 304, — near Bath, 304 ; Siberian, in 

 Yorkshire, 26 ; Spectacled, on Sal- 

 vage Islands, 404, 405 ; Subalpine, 

 in St. Kilda, 282 ; Yellow-browed, 

 in Humber District, 58, — in Nor- 

 folk, 100 



Waxwing in Sussex, 69 ; in Suffolk, 

 69 ; in Derbyshire, 69 ; in North- 

 amptonshire, 70 ; in Leicestershire, 

 111 



Weasel, albino, 19, 302; proper spe- 

 cific name of, 177, 225 



Whale, Beaked, in Cheshire, 247; 

 Hump-backed, on Lincolnshire 

 coast, 19, — in Cheshire, 247 



Whale and Seal fishery, 1884, 91 



Whimbrel in Finland, 334, — on Sal- 

 vage Islands, 416 



White's ' Selborne,' manuscript of, 

 147, 185 



Whitethroat, Common, nesting habits 

 of, 310 



Whyniardes, 246 



Wigeon in Finland, 331 ; American, 

 in Yorkshire, 196 



Wildfowl, local names of, 106, 152 



Wolf in Cheshire, 164 



Woodpecker, Greater Spotted, in 

 Wales, 142 ; Green, in Wales, 142 ; 

 Lesser Spotted, nesting near Bath, 

 22, 273,— in Wales, 142,— in cap- 

 tivity, 306 



Woodpeckers, food of, 228 



Wren, Fire-crested, in Humber Dis- 

 trict, 58 ; Siberian Willow, in Hum- 

 ber District, 58 ; St. Kildian, 283 



Wryneck rare in Wales, 142 



