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CONTENTS. 



vertebra of earliest known, from 

 gault of Portugal, 233 

 Snakes, Australian, poison of, 313 

 Snipe affected by soot, 60, — abun- 

 dance of, in Sussex, 61 ; Common 

 and Gallinago major, hybrid be- 

 tween, 90 ; Great, in Kent, 429 ; 

 Bed-breasted, in Ireland, 63 

 Societies, Scientific : — 



Linnean, 26, 65, 117, 155, 192, 232, 



271, 462 

 Zoological, 28, 67, 119, 157, 193, 



233, 273, 315, 463 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 235 

 Entomological, 29, 69, 119, 158, 

 195, 235, 274, 431, 465 

 Solway Firth, Black Guillemot on, 

 55 ; Waders on, 115 ; Little Gull 

 on, 115 ; Sapphirine Gurnard in, 

 230, 270 ; Bonito, 397 

 Somersetshire. — Uncommon birds, 

 21 ; Cuckoo, 224, 306 ; Lesser Red- 

 poll, 228, 265, 304, 305 ; Shag, 267; 

 Grey Wagtail, 304; Hawfinch, 

 304; Lesser Redpoll breeding, 228, 

 265, 304, 305; Marsh Warbler, 

 304 ; Crossbill, 346 ; large clutches 

 of eggs, 428 

 Song, autumn, of birds, 410 

 Sparrow, Tree, eggs, 2 28, 309 

 Sparrowhawk, nesting of, 24 ; pur- 

 suing Green Woodpecker, 58, 340 ; 

 period of incubation, 341 

 Sparrows damage thatch, 99 ; hybrid, 



111, 118, 154 

 Spiders, British Trapdoor, 193 

 Spindle, achromatic, in Elasmo- 



branchs, 463 

 Spoonbill in Norfolk, 86, 87 

 Squirrel destructive in plantations, 

 148 ; in Southern Highlands, 260 ; 

 and conifers, 336 

 Staffordshire. — Grey Phalarope, 112 ; 



Water Vole, 223 

 Stictonetta naevosa, 67 

 Stoats in ermine dress, 148, 223 

 Stonechat nesting at Epsom, 429 

 Stork, Black, supposed occurrence in 



Devonshire, 429 

 Suffolk. — Sea-birds, 21 ; Bullfinch's 

 nest with egg of Cuckoo, 23 ; hybrid 

 Sparrows, 111, 154; Cuckoo. 307, 

 338 ; Emyslutaria turned out, 311 ; 

 Goldfinch, 344 

 Surrey. — Ornithological notes, 25, 

 110; white Robin, 150; Heron, 

 152; birds observed at Tooting- 

 Beck Common, 178 ; Badger, 186 ; 



Cuckoo, 189 ; Meadow Pipit, 426 

 birds nesting in, 429 ; Bittern, 429 



Sussex. — Cuckoo chased by Rook, 

 22 ; Leach's Petrel, 25 ; Lapland 

 Bunting, 60 ; uncommon birds, 60 ; 

 Wildfowl, 60; accident to Adder, 

 64 ; Cuckoo, 189 ; ornithological 

 notes, 228 ; Serotine Bat, 261 ; 

 Avocet. 346; Meadow Pipit, 426; 

 Baillon's Crake, 427 ; albino Swal- 

 low, 430 ; Little Bittern in capti- 

 vity, 454 



Swallows, white, 59, 430 



Swan, Bewick's, in Norfolk, 85; in 

 Wales, 113 ; wild, in Northampton- 

 shire, 211, 212 



Tern, Black, in Norfolk, 87, — in 

 Northamptonshire, 219 ; Sandwich 

 breeding in Norfolk, 88, — in Hants, 

 302 ; Whiskered, in Dumfriesshire, 

 268 ; White-winged Black, in Nor- 

 folk, 86, 87 



Thrush, American Red-breasted, in 

 Leicestershire, 459 ; Missel, killed 

 and eaten by Hawk, 92, — nesting 

 in Hants, 297 ; Song, nest without 

 mud lining, 299 



Tit, Bearded, in Norfolk, 87 ; Long- 

 tailed, in Isle of Man, 64, — numer- 

 ous nests of in Norfolk, 86 ; Marsh, 

 unusual number of eggs for, 345 



Variety of Marsipobranch Fishes, 29; 

 of Swallow, 59, 430 ; of Common 

 Pheasant, 68; of Partridge, 84, 

 155 ; of Dunlin, 85 ; of Snipe, 

 90 ; of Redpoll, 90 ; of Blackbird, 

 91, 150 ; of Teracolus halyattes, 

 117; of Goldfinch, Greenfinch, 

 Reed Bunting, and Robin, 150; 

 of Water Vole, 155 ; of Carrion 

 Crow, 215; of Redwing, 220; of 

 Barn Owl, 226 ; of Rook, 269 ; of 

 Waterhen, 270 



Vespertilio murinus (see Bat, Mouse- 

 coloured) 



Vipers, assembly of, 25 



Vole, Bank, unusnal abundance in 

 1893, 54, 109,— in Oxfordshire, 54, 

 — habits, 149, — in Shropshire, 223, 

 — in Worcestershire, 223, 303, — in 

 Warwickshire, 303 ; Water, variety, 

 155, — at a distance from water, 

 223 



Waders on Solway Firth, 115 

 Wagtail, Grey, in Norfolk, 86, — in 



