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land, 26,— in Isle of Man, 28, — in 

 Devon, 28, 34,— in Donegal, 32; 

 Red-necked, in Ireland, 28 



Pigeons feeding with Sea Gulls and 

 Jackdaws, 21; Homing, speed of, 

 362 



Pipe-fish, iEquoreal, at Waterville, 

 Co. Kerry, 77, — in Cork Harbour 

 and Killala Bay, 153 



Plague of Field Voles in the South of 

 Scotland, 161; in Thessaly, and 

 its successful counteraction by the 

 bacillus typha murium, 310* ; of 

 Field Mice, best means of com- 

 bating a, 298; of Tortrix viridana 

 in N. Wales, 274 



Plover, Kentish, 24; Einged, per- 

 sistent brooding of, 31 



Plumage, of Woodpecker and Nut- 

 hatch, variation in, 35; of Serin 

 Finch, 224 ; male, assumed by Pea- 

 hen, 428 



Polecat, in North Wiltshire, 20,— in 

 Northamptonshire, 20, 224, — in 

 Merionethshire, 74, 108, — in Scar- 

 borough one hundred years ago, 

 222,— in Pembrokeshire, 264, 310, 

 328,— in S. Wales, 354,— in Bucks, 

 354, — in Staffordshire, 402, — in 

 Worcestershire, 402 



Protection of birds, 271 



Ptarmigan, introduction of into the 

 Faeroe Islands, 413, — and Red 

 Grouse, hybrids between, 41 



Puffin inland in Notts, 115 



Pycnogonida from the Sligo coast, 

 414 



Quail in Sussex, 361, 427, — nesting in 

 Devonshire, 427 



Rabbit, on the extermination of, in 



Australasia, 377 

 Ramble, a naturalist's, in Swedish 



Lapland, 81 

 Raptorial migrants in East Anglia, 



29, 114 

 Rat, Heron catching a, 110 

 Rats stealing gooseberries, 354 

 Redpoll, song of, 149 

 Redshank, Spotted, in N. Devon, 27, 



— in Co. Dublin, 35, — in summer 



plumage in November, 429 

 Redstart, Black, in Lancashire, 115 

 Ring Ouzel, 23 

 Roller in Co. Donegal, 32, 33 

 Rooks, Pied, 228; and Field Mice, 



355 



Rorqual, in the Humber, 224 ; Lesser, 



in Kerry, 75 

 Ruff, in Nottinghamshire, 423 



Sandpiper, Siberian Pectoral, in Nor- 

 folk, 356, 405 



Scoter, Black, nesting in Sussex, 151, 

 228 ; Surf, in S. Devon, 35 



Sea- Gulls, wild, feeding with Jack- 

 daws and Pigeons, 21 



Seal and Whale fishery of 1891, notes 

 on, 100 



Shark, Greenland, at Lynn, 153, — at 

 Overstrand, 312 



Shearwater, Manx, in N. Devon, 28 



Shoveller, Manx, in Somersetshire, 

 427 



Sheldrake, Ruddy,inCo. Donegal, 311, 

 359, — in Ireland, 334, 359,— in 

 Scotland, 334, — in Hants, 335, — in 

 Suffolk, 335,— in Cumberland, 335, 

 — in Co. Dublin, 359, — in Bucking- 

 hamshire, 359, — in Lincolnshire, 

 360, — on the recent occurrence in 

 the British Islands, 392, — in North 

 Devon, 426, 427 



Shoveller, breeding in Co. West 

 Meath, 311 



Shrike, Great Grey, in Gloucester- 

 shire, 151 ; Pallas's Grey, in Notts, 

 76, — in Leicestershire, 76 ; killing 

 Sand Martin, 310 



Shrikes, Grey, further remarks upon, 

 112 



Skua, Buffon's, in N. Devon, 27, — in 

 W. Suffolk, 30,— in Devon, 34, 145 ; 

 Pomatorhine, in Co. Mayo, 423 



Snake, Common or Ringed, variety 

 of, 232 



Societies, Scientific : — 

 Linnean, 36, 78, 115, 154, 196, 233, 



274, 430 

 Zoological, 37, 79, 118, 156, 197, 



234 277 432. 

 Entomological, 39, 80, 119, 158, 

 198, 236, 280, 414, 444 



Songs of birds, 30, 77 



Spirula, at Lough Swilly, Co. Done- 

 gal, 414 



Squirrel, albino, 20 ; young, 328, 403 



Starling, 23, — imitative powers of, 

 192,— in Co. West Meath, 310 



Stoat, white and pied, 265 ; pied, in 

 Notts in May, 310 



Stint, American, in N. Devon, 411 



Stone in a Horse's stomach, 402, 421 



Swallow, buff variety of, 423 



Swallows, Hobby preying on, 26 



