CONTENTS. 



Xlll 



Food, of Bats, 71; of Pine Gros- 

 beak, 222 

 Fowl, domestic, modern breeds, 355 

 Fox, black variety, 97, — in New 

 Forest, 17 



Gadwall in Leicestershire, 464 

 Gallinule, so-called " Martinico," in 

 Ireland, 24 ; Martinique, in Hants, 

 74 

 Goldfinch, and Greenfinch, wild hy- 

 brid between, 135 

 Goosander, near Cardiff, 101 

 Goose, White-fronted, in Norfolk, 23 

 Grebe, Eared, near Scarborough, 77, 

 — in Co. Waterford, 144, — in Me- 

 rionethshire, 186 ; Red-necked, in 

 Surrey, 224 

 Grebes, attitude on land, 73 

 Greenfinch, and Goldfinch, wild hy- 

 brid between, 135 ; and Serin, 

 similar habits, 388 

 Grosbeak, Pine, claim to be regarded 

 as British bird, 125, 184, — reputed 

 occurrence in Devonshire, 183, — 

 food, 222, — in Nottinghamshire, 

 464 

 Grouse, Red, pied variety, 182 ; Sand, 

 in Staffordshire, 101, — breeding 

 in Moray, 180 

 Gull, Little, on the Thames, 19, — at 

 Hastings, 19, — at Harwich, 19, — 

 white variety, 19 

 Gurney, Mr. J. H., death, 176,— 

 memoir, 193 



Habits, of Kentish Plover, 138 ; of 

 Great Noctule Bat, 217 ; of Stoat, 

 380; similar, of Greenfinch and 

 Serin, 388; of Nutcracker, 433; 

 nesting, of Sky Lark, 223, 270, 271, 

 —of Dipper, 314, 352, 393, 437 — 

 of Golden Eagle in California, 377, 

 —of the Grey Wagtail, 461 



Hancock, the late John, of New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, memoir {with por- 

 trait), 441 



Hare, grey variety, in Dorsetshire, 

 17 ; varieties, in Ireland, 70 



Harrier, Montagu's, in Wexford, 275 ; 

 breeding in Suffolk, 76 



Hawfinch in Ireland, 138, — in Gla- 

 morganshire, 182, — in Lincoln- 

 shire, 465 ; breeding in Wirral, 390 



Hawfinches and green peas, 465 



Hawking, commentary on Sir John 

 Sebright's observations upon, 417 



Hedgehog v. Rat, 453 



Helix rufescens, position of dart-sac, 



276 

 Heron, Common Green of U.S., 105, 



181 

 Hobby, on Irish coast, 357 

 Horse and its historians, 121 

 Hybrid, Mallard and Shoveller, 23 ; 

 Finches, 106 ; wild, between Gold- 

 finch and Greenfinch, 135 ; between 

 Grey and Red-legged Partridges, 

 384 ; Pheasant, description of, 466 



Icterus baltimore, 457 



Jackdaw killing Rats, 437 ; change 



of plumage, 464 • 

 Jackdaws, Rooks, and Blackbirds, 



pied, 18 

 Jay, pied variety, 106 



Kestrel chasing and killing a Bat, 107 

 Kingfisher flying into a house, 438 

 Kittiwakes inland in Surrey, 107 



Lanius major, 27 



Lapwing, nest made of rush, 136 



Lark, Shore, in Lincolnshire, 224; 

 Short-toed, at Great Yarmouth, 

 77 ; Sky, nesting habits, 223, 270, 

 271 



Larks, Short-toed, erroneous records, 

 394 



Lepus variabilis in North Wales, 216 



Lestris catarrhactes, 297 



Limax flavus, Linn., 145; descrip- 

 tion of new variety, 145 



Lobster, abnormal size and weight, 

 359 



Loxia bifasciata, 105 



Mallard and Shoveller, hybrid, 23 

 Mammals, terrestrial, of Barbados, 



notes on, 52 

 Marten in North Wales, 134 

 Martin, Sand, and Swift, abnormal 



nesting, 466 

 Markwick, Wm., unpublished MS. 



on birds of Sussex, 335, 379 

 Merlin with feathered feet, 101 

 Mice, Field, trap for, 134 

 Migration of birds, supposed cause, 



141 

 Mole, mouse-coloured variety, 97 ; 



eye of, 98 

 Moles, cream-coloured, and black- 

 and-white, 17 

 Mollusca, additional to British list, 



317 



