CONTENTS. 



272; imitative faculty in birds, 

 308; liedshank, 309; Little 

 Crake, 309; Quail, 310; Nut- 

 cracker, 310 ; Swallow, 379 ; 

 Richardson's Skua, 432 ; Broad- 

 billed Sandpiper, 449 ; Red- 

 necked Phalarope, 449 ; Kestrel 

 taking young Pheasants, 450 

 Warwickshire. — Oystercatcher, 



22; Hawfinch, 232 

 Wiltshire.— Hobby, 883 

 Yorkshire. — Siberian Warbler, 26 ; 

 rare British birds, 56 ; Lesser 

 Horseshoe Bat, 65 ; Whiskered 

 Bat, 65 ; Grebes, 66 ; Little Auk, 

 68 ; migration of Grouse in win- 

 ter, 69, 108 ; Briinnich's Guille- 

 mot, 70 ; Urus, 121 ; ornitho- 

 logical notes, 234 ; albino Shrew, 

 268; Hawfinch, 273; Greater 

 Spotted Woodpecker, 273 ; Dot- 

 terel, 307 ; polygamy in Starling, 

 307; white Hedgehogs, 346; 

 Common Seal, 347; Matterer's 

 Bat, 426; Lesser Shrew, 427; 

 Water Shrew, 427 ; Ray's Sea 

 Bream, 436 ; Goldeneye, 449 ; 

 Swallows returning to their old 

 nests, 449 

 Courser, Cream-coloured, in Cardi- 

 ganshire, 224 

 Crake, Little, in Sussex, 309 

 Crane in Humber District, 59, — in 

 Finland, 332, — from its nest to its 

 winter quarters, 382 

 Crossbill, European White- winged, in 

 Ireland, 195 ; Two-barred, in West 

 of England and Ireland, 110 ; 

 feeding on insects, 228 

 Crossbills in Leicestershire, 233 

 Cryptoprocta, anatomy of, 239 

 Cuckoo, American, in Wales, 143, — 

 in Dorsetshire, 376, 433, — impor- 

 tant correction respecting, 455 ; 

 egg in Wren's nest, 228; eggs in 

 Whitethroat's nest, 229, 305 ; early 

 laying of, 229 ; curious fate of a, 230 ; 

 hepatic plumage of, 237, 257, 321 ; 

 moulted feathers held by barbed 

 seed-capsules of grass, 277 

 Curlew, Stone, in Lincolnshire in 

 winter, 111 ; nesting habits, 274 



Deer, fondness for musical sounds, 

 216 ; Fallow, in Cheshire, 217 ; 

 Red, in Cheshire, 215, — curious 

 custom ol driving, at Lyme, 215 



Dimorphism, seasonal, 198 



Dipper, Black-bellied, in Norfolk, 101 



Distomum, a new, 276 



Diver, Black-throated, and eggs, in 

 Finland, 335 ; Great Northern, at 

 Hastings, 68 ; Red-throated, and 

 eggs, in Finland, 335 



Dolphin, food of, 105 ; Common, in 

 Cheshire, 248 ; Risso's, figured, 357 ; 

 White-beaked, in Cheshire, 248 



Dormouse in Cheshire, 171 



Dotterel in Wales, 224, — at Scar- 

 borough, 307,— in Finland, 332 



Dove, Schimper's Rock, on Salvage 

 Islands, 403 



Dragonflies, migration of, 340, 343 



Duck, hybrid between Mallard and 

 Teal, 55, 75 ; hybrid, 239 ; Eider, 

 in St. Kilda, 285 ; Long-tailed, in 

 Wales, 256, — in Finland, 331; 

 White-eyed, in Norfolk, 101 



Dunlin nesting in Wales, 275 



Dytiscus marginalis, female with 

 elytra like male, 157 



Eagle, Sea, in Norfolk, 101, 102; 

 Golden, in Finland, 331, — alleged 

 former nesting in England, 450 ; 

 White-tailed, in Wales, 181,— in 

 St. Kilda, 282,— in Finland, 331; 

 escape of a caged, 380, 434, 455 



Eggs of Great Auk, 193, 269; of 

 Cuckoo in Wren's nest, 228, — in 

 Whitethtoat's nest, 229, 305; of 

 Goshawk, Peregrine, Rough-legged 

 Buzzard, Falco gyrfalco, Common 

 Scoter, Red-necked Phalarope, Jack 

 Snipe, Broad-billed Sandpiper, 

 Temminck's Stint, Ruff, Black- 

 throated Diver and Blue-throated 

 Diver in Finland, 330, 332, 333, 

 335 ; of Crested Lark in Kent, 

 451 



Euplcea, E. coras, E. prothoe, 337 



Falcon, Peregrine, eggs in Finland, 



330 

 Fauna, Mammalian, of Cheshire, 161, 



212, 247 ; of St. Kilda, 281 ; of Mt. 



Ruwenzori, 154, 238 

 Firecrest, food of, 228 

 Fishes, sensory canal system of, 197 ; 



Salmonoid, cranial characters of, 



197 

 Flight in birds, rate of, 377, 427, 428, 



441 

 Flycatcher, Pied, in Wales, 16, 135 ; 



Red-breasted, in Humber District, 



58 ; Spotted, fearlessness of, 271 



