CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Accounts, Churchwardens', at Ham- 

 bledon, Bucks, 61 ; at Dry Dray- 

 ton, Cambs., 189 

 Albinism, in birds and mammals, 



141, 191 

 Albino Coot, 151 ; Squirrel, 20 

 Albinos and white varieties, 25, 191 

 Avifauna of Donegal, additions to, 

 32, 108, 128, 191, 270 



Badgers near Scarborough, 222 

 Barbastelle in Gloucestershire, 329, 



356 

 Bat, Daubenton's, caught with a 

 trout-fly, 403 ; Hairy-armed, in 

 Yorkshire, 329 ; Natterer's, in 

 Notts, 144 ; Serotine, in the Mid- 

 lands, 403 ; Whiskered, near Scar- 

 borough, 108 

 Bates, H. W., memoir of the late, 184 

 Bee-eater in Co. Wicklow, 428 

 Beetle, Mustard, 274 

 Bird-song, 30 ; inherited, 77 

 Birds, seen in Switzerland, notes on, 

 3, 65 ; ground-building, removing 

 egg-shells, 23 ; rare, in N. Devon, 

 27, — at Kingsbridge, S. Devon, 34 ; 

 songs of, reared from the nest, 30 ; 

 of Donegal, additions to, 32, 108, 

 128, 191, 270 ; of Isle of Man, 93, 

 146; and mammals, albinism in, 

 141, 191 ; in Queen Charlotte 

 Island, British Columbia, 230; of 

 Oxfordshire, supplementary notes 

 on, 241 ; observed on a fishing 

 expedition to South Trondhjem, 

 267 ; protection of, 271 ; summer, 

 kept through the winter, 330, 360; 

 of Derbyshire, 331; wild hybrid, 

 :;:;."> ; uncommon, in Somersetshire, 

 412 

 Birdsnesting in Suffolk, 311 

 Bittern in Co. Meath, 33, — in Devon, 

 145, — in [Bedfordshire, 196, — in 

 8.W. Hampshire, 229, — in Sussex, 



Blackbird, pairing with Thrush, 270; 

 and Bong Thrush, supposed hybrid 



between, 145 

 Blackbirds, a brood of pied, 358 

 Blomefield, Rev. Leonard, M.A., pre- 

 sentation to, 420 



Bonito on the Cornish coast, 36 

 Books reviewed : — 



Poultry for the Table and Market 



versus Fancy Fowls, with an 



Exposition of the Fallacies of 



Poultry Farming, by W. B. 



Tegetmeier, 238 



Songs of Universal Life, by the 



Rev. Marcus S. C. Rickards, 239 



Beast and Man in India, a popular 



sketch of Indian Animals in their 



relations with the People, by J. 



L. Kipling, 313 



Palms and Pearls, or Scenes in 



Ceylon, by Alan Walters, 318 

 Travels amongst the Great Andes 

 of the Equator, with Supple- 

 mentary Appendix, by Edward 

 Whymper, 368 

 The Naturalist in La Plata, by 



W. H. Hudson, 373 

 A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, 

 including Cumberland and West- 

 morland, with Lancashire north 

 of the Sands, by Rev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson, with a Preface by R. S. 

 Ferguson, 436 

 The Birds of Devon, by W. S. M. 

 D'Urban and Rev. Murray A. 

 Mathew, 438 

 The Fauna and Flora of Glouces- 

 tershire, by C. A. Witchell and 

 W. B. Strugnell, 441 

 Catalogue of Eastern and Austra- 

 lian Lepidoptera-Heterocera in 

 the Collection of the Oxford 

 University Museum, by Col. C. 

 Swinhoe, 446 

 Les Coquilles Marines des Cotes de 

 France, 447 

 Breeding of Woodcock in Worcester- 

 shire, 226 ; of Shoveller in Co. West 

 Meath, 311; of Bank Vole in con- 

 finement, 329 ; of Sand Grouse in 

 captivity in Denmark, '341; of 

 Canary in Germany, 366 ; of Cut* 

 throat, or Ribbon Finch, 429 

 Brooding, persistent, of Ringed Plo- 

 ver, 31 

 Bullfinches in Kensington Gardens, 



144 

 Bunting, Cirl, distribution in Great 



