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note on the singing, 288 ; on the 

 harvest, 289, 290, 291, 292, 349 

 Museum, Sudbury Mechanics', 341 

 Mussel, polymorphous, on the rapid in- 

 crease of in Great Britain, 253 



Nests of birds, 380 

 Nightingale, 240 

 Noctuae captured with sugar, 201 

 Notices: — ' A History of British Quadru- 

 rupeds, including the Cetacea,' by 

 Thomas Bell, 65 ; ' My Bee-Book,' 

 by William Charles Cotton, 22; 

 ' The Honey-bee, its Natural His- 

 tory,' &c., by Edward Be van, 22 ; 

 'The Old Red Sandstone,' by Hugh 

 Miller, 42; ' Figures of Molluscous 

 Animals,' by Mrs. Gray, 53; White's 

 Selborne, by the Rev. Leonard Je- 

 nyns, 223 ; ' Description of a Gigan- 

 tic Fossil Sloth,' by Richard Owen, 

 F.R.S.. 281 

 Nuthatch, note on the habits of, 213 

 Nyssia hispidaria and zonaria, capture of, 

 175 



Odacantha melanura, capture of, 198 

 Oithona plumifera, 59 ; O. splendens, 61 

 Orgyia gonostigma, caterpillar of, 95 

 Osmia atricapilla, 265 

 Osprey, note on, 14, 179 

 Otter, note on, 344 



Owl, screech, note on, 350 ; barn, habits 

 of, 384 



Parrot, grey, 104 



Partridge, anecdotes of, 361 ; food of, 372 



Peacock killed by a hen, 360 



Pheasant, 186; anecdote of, 361; food of, 

 372 



Phyllium, the species of, 117 



Phyllopertha horticola, 271 



Pigeon, domestic, settling on trees, 360 



Pipit, Richard's, in Cornwall, 190 ; mea- 

 dow, 241 



Pissodes Pini near London, 271 



Pleadings for the dumb, 345 



Plover, golden, habits of, 362 



Polia occulta, capture of, 30 



Polyommatus Argiolus, on the seasons of 

 appearance of, 199, 258 



Psychopsis mimica, description of, 125 



Pterodactyl e tribe considered as marsupial 

 bats, 129 



Quails, occurrence of in winter, 361 ; food 

 of, 373 



Rat, on the piscivorous habits of the brown 



212; on peculiarities in the mannera 

 of the water, 293, 296 



Raven, habits of, 215, 227, 305, 366 



Redpoll, lesser, habits of, 353 



Redshank, habits of, 233 



Redstart, black, occurrence of near Pen- 

 zance, 100; near Brighton, 188,355 



Redstart's nest in a singular locality, 355 



Reed-warbler, 97, 222 



Reed-sparrow, 303 



Reptiles mentioned in Shakspeare's plays, 

 249, 317 t f J ^ 



Rhinobatus planus, 265 



Rhinomacer attelaboides, capture of near 

 Edinburgh, 272 



Rhombus hirtus, description of, 106 



Ring-dove, nest of, 222 ; food of, 370 



Ring ouzel, note on, 144, 351 



Ring plover, early breeding of, 190 



Robin, anecdotes of, 357 



Rook, note on 239, 350 ; food of, 367 



Sandpiper, pectoral, 14 1 ; Wood, occur- 

 rence of near Penzance, 143, 189; 

 buff -breasted, occurrence of, 363; 

 dusky, occurrence of, 363 



Saturnia Pavonia-minor, and Lasiocampa 

 Rubi, 260 



Scoliopteryx libatrix, on the variation of 

 colour in, 260, 333 



Sea-eagle, capture of, 36 



Selborne, notice of White's, 223 



Sepsis cynipsea, 95 



Sertularia, note on, 32 



Shells and crabs at Circular head, Van 

 Diemen's Land, 255 



Shrew, white, 287 ; common, mortality of, 

 288 



Shrike, red-backed, note on, 40, 352 ; grey, 

 note on, 40 



Siskin, note on the, 222 



Skylark, enquiry,— Does the female ever 

 sing? 219,238; food of, 303 



Sloth, fossil, 281 



Smerinthus ocellatus, and Smer. Populi, 

 174,175 



Snails devouring insects, note on, 201 



Snakes and addei-s, poaching propensities 

 of, 322 



Snipe breeds on Dartmoor, 362 



Sparrow, tree, note on, 11 ; domestic, anec- 

 dote of affection for its young, 1 6 ; 

 early nests of, 76, 148 ; tree, at Til- 

 ford, 189 ; food of, 299; singular 

 noise made by, 353 



Sphinx Ligustri and Smerinthus ocella- 

 tus, 175; Convolvuli, 331 



Spoonbill, occurrence of in Sussex, 225, 

 in Cornwall, 364 



