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CONTENTS. 



Herpetology of the Grand Duchy of 



Baden, 15, 211 

 Herring-fishing at Christiania, 312 

 Hirundinidae, late appearance in N. 



Norfolk, 24 

 Hobby, preying on Swallows, 26 

 Hoopoe in Surrey, 269, — in Norfolk, 



860, — in Somersetshire, 409 

 Horse, stone in stomach of, 402, 421 

 Hybrid, between Eed Grouse and 

 Ptarmigan, 41 ; between Teal and 

 Wild Duck, 109, 148; supposed, 

 between Song Thrush and Black- 

 bird, 145 ; wild birds, 335 



Ianthina, at Lough Swilly, Co. Done- 

 gal, 414 



Importation of Hares from New 

 Zealand, 421 



Jackdaw, feeding with wild Sea Gulls 



and Pigeons, 21 ; varieties of, 361 

 Java Sparrow, a white, 33 

 Jays, food of, 429 



Lacerta muralis, 19 



Lapwings, carrying their young, 860 



Lark, Sky, singing at night, 362 



Magpie, nesting of, 29, — unusual 

 nesting-place for, 227 



Mammals and birds, albinism in, 

 141, 191 



Marten, British, 131, — in Norfolk, 

 19, — in Suffolk, 19, — in Surrey, 

 190, — in Lincolnshire, 190, — in 

 Cumberland, 223, — in Co. Wex- 

 ford, 263 



Martin, Sand, in Co. Donegal, 270; 

 Shrike killing, 310 



Merlin, 23 



Memoir of the late H. W. Bates, 184 



Mice, kept at the Hygienic Institute at 

 Greifswald, on epidemic amongst, 

 297; Field, on the best means of 

 combating a plague of, 297, — and 

 Kooks, 355 



Migrants, raptorial, in East Anglia, 

 29, 114 



Migration, of Yellow Wagtails, 389; 

 m 11 nmber district in autumn of 

 L892, 417 



M^lc, observations on the, 421 



Mollusoa, Marine, collected on the 

 bi of Donegal and Dublin, 

 notes on, 51, 105, 139, 181 



Moti -us of Divers on land, 226 



Mus alexaudrinus in Ireland, 75 



Natural History, Irish, 107 

 Nest of Grey Wagtail, Cuckoo in, 331 

 Nesting, alleged former, of Osprey in 

 the English Lake district, 1 ; of 

 Magpie, 29, — unusual, 227; un- 

 usual, of Chiffchaff, 111, 150, 226; 

 of Black Scoter in Sussex, 151, 228 ; 

 of Turtle Dove in a Squirrel's drey, 

 310; late, of Lapwing, 333; habits 

 and food of Long-eared Owl, 363 ; 

 late, of Tawny Owl in Scotland, 

 424; of Great Crested Grebe in 

 North of Ireland, 425; of Quail in 

 Devonshire, 427 

 New Forest, threatened spoliation of, 



73 

 Newt, Palmated, in Anglesea, 272 

 Nidification of Bar-tailed Godwit, 30 

 Notes, on Marine Mollusca collected 

 on the coasts of Donegal and Dub- 

 lin, 51, 105, 139, 181; on the Seal 

 and Whale fishery of 1891, 100; 

 ornithological, from Switzerland, 

 3, 65, 258, — from Worcestershire, 

 23,— from Norfolk, 56, 195, 398 — 

 from Donegal, 108, 191, — from 

 Scarborough, 144, 410, — from 

 Northamptonshire, 201, — from Ox- 

 fordshire, 241, — from North Italy, 

 258, — from Devonshire, 427, — from 

 Sussex, 428 

 Nuthatch, variation in plumage, 35 

 Nymphon on the coast of Shgo, 367 



Oriole, Golden, in Eichmond Park, 

 269 



Ornithological notes (see Notes) 



Osprey, alleged former nesting in the 

 English Lake district, 1; in Lake- 

 land, 75 



Owl, Little, in Oxfordshire, 332; 

 Long-eared, nesting habits and 

 food of, 363 ; Tawny, late nesting, 

 in Scotland, 424 



Pairing of Blackbird with Thrush, 



270 

 Partridge, white, 267 

 Peahen assuming the male plumage, 



428 

 Peregrine, 29 

 Petrel, Pork-tailed, in Ireland, 33, — 



near Macclesfield, 4'Z9 ; Pulmar, 



on the Irish coast, 406, — in Co. 



Mayo, 423 

 Petrels m Isle of Man, 28 

 Pkalarope, Gre3 r , ia Leicestershire, 



26, — in Warwickshire, 26, — in Ire- 



