CONTENTS 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, 



Almond, G. A. 



Agrotis Pra?cox, 6503 

 Altham, J. 



A kite flying over London, 6676 

 Anderson, Robert 



Notes on Xanthia ocellaris, 6503 

 Armstrong, Thomas 



Rare birds near Carlisle, 6378 ; Piebald 

 specimen of Mus rattus near Car- 

 lisle, 6442 

 Atkinson, Rev. J. C, M.A. 



Reason and instinct, 6313, 6429, 6485, 

 6522 ; Inquiry respecting a bird's 

 nest, 6563 ; The doubtful eggs, 

 6675 

 Bate, C. Spence, F,L.S., &c. 



The Crab and its allies, 6567, 6622, 

 6676 

 Battersby, H. W. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Torquay, 6461 

 Bell, Thomas, F.R.S. 



The edible frog long a native of Foul- 

 inire Fens, 6565 ; Hawfinch at Sel- 

 borne, 6729. 

 Birciiall, Edwin 



A week at Killarney, 6765 

 Birchall, Henry 



Extracts from correspondence, 6403 

 Bissill, W. K. 



A fortnight at Hornsea, Yorkshire, 

 6697 

 Blakiston, Capt. Thomas W., R.A. 

 Scraps from the Far West, 6318, 6373 ; 

 Showers of feathers, 6675 

 Bold, Thomas John 



Capture of Noliophilus substriatus in 

 the North of Scotland and in Cum- 

 berland, English habitat for Quedius 

 auricomus, 6389 ; Latridius nodifer 

 and Corticaria borealis in the North 

 of England, Capture of Vespa arbo- 

 rea in Cumberland, 6792 



Bond, Frederick 



Capture of the new snake, Coronella 

 austriaca, at Ringwood, 6787 

 Boyd, Thomas 



On the tendency of species to form 

 varieties, 6357; Reason and instinct, 

 6585 

 Brockholes, J. F. 



Note on the habits of Heliothis mar- 

 ginata, 6338 ; Note on the habits^of 

 the longeared owl, 6752 

 Bromfield, The late W. Arnold, M.D. 



Extracts from letters, 6393 

 Brown, Edwin 



On breeding Acherontia Atropos, 6356 

 Buxton, T. Fowell 



Woodcock's nest in Norfolk, 6562 

 Chapman, T. 

 Reason for the specific name of Sphinx 

 Convolvuli, 6337 

 Clark, Thomas 



Black swan in Somersetshire, 6379 ; 

 Capture of Deilephila Galii, 6503 ; 

 Live toads underneath a bed of clay, 

 6537, 6565 ; A robin's nest in a 

 gardener's pouch, Dates of the 

 arrival of migratory birds, 6603 

 Cooke, H. 



Sophronia emorlualis near Brighton, 

 6385 

 Couch, Jonathan, F.L.S. 



Birds' nests : Nests of the green wood- 

 pecker and nuthatch, 6327; Nidi- 

 fication of birds — the common mar- 

 tin, 6535 

 Couch, R. Q., M.R.C.S., &c. 



The Derbio in Mount's Bay, 6333; 

 Black fish in Mount's Bay, Cor- 

 rection of an error, 6335 

 Crewe, Rev. H. Harpur, M.A. 



Food-plant of Sphinx Convolvuli, 

 Food-plant of the genus Acronycta, 



