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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Abstinence in a beetle, 612 ; in a snail, 

 800. 



Acarus found on a moth, 680. 



Accentor, alpine in Devonshire, 566. 



Acherontia Atropos, 473, 540. 



Agriculture, ornithology applicable to, 

 561. 



Agrotis, species of, 687 ; annexa, 683. 



Alabama river, 703. 



Alpine Accentor in Devonshire, 566. 



Andrena argentata, description of, 409. 



Anchomenus picticornis, description of, 

 414. 



Animals, seeds sown by, 442. 



Anthus petrosus at Kingsbury, 447. 



Anticlea berberata at Epping, 581. 



Ants, habits of, 405 ; nests, beetles inha- 

 biting, 475. 



Apate capucinus in Kensington Gardens, 

 612. 



Aphodius rufescens, variableness of, 612. 



Argynnis Lathonia near Exeter, 398. 



Badger near Melbourne, 615. 



Bat, torpidity in a, 613. 



Barn-owl, hooting of, 794. 



Bee, economy of, 748. 



Bee-tree, description of, 607.. 



Bees, humble, notes on the British, 541 ; 

 leaf-cutter, description of the Bri- 

 tish, 689 ; mason, description of the 

 British, 737 ; wasp, descriptions of 

 the British, 587 ; and laurel trees, 

 609. 



Beetle, long abstinence of, 612 ; Bom- 

 bardier, 475 ; beetles inhabiting 

 ants' nests, 475. 



Birds of Sussex, 430 ; migration of at 

 Redcar, 440 ; migration of in Der- 

 byshire, 440 ; migration of at Yar- 

 mouth,441; songsof,442; enormous 

 bones of, found in New Zealand, 

 454 ; summer, arrival of near Twi- 

 zell House, 456; of prey in the 

 parish of Hursley, near Winchester, 

 490 ; in Isle of Wight, 516, 634. 

 nomenclature of British, 552, 553 ; 

 rare British in Derbyshire, 553, 644 ; 

 Rhymes relating to, 556 ; seeds 

 sown by, 561 , 649 ; instinct in web- 

 footed, 578 ; and birds' nests, 647 ; 

 arrival of migratory at Bonchurch, 

 Isle of Wight, 649 ; at Northcha- 

 pel, near Petworth, 650 ; at Kings- 



bury, Middlesex, 650 ; at Layton, 

 Essex, 651 ; at Epping, 651 ; at 

 Elvedon, 651 ; at Leicester, 652 ; 

 near Derby, 652 ; at Melbourne, 

 Derbyshire, 652 ; at Sheffield, 653 ; 

 at Hull, 653 ; at Elgin, 653 ; de- 

 parture of winter from Yarmouth, 

 654 ; breeding of some, resident 

 and migratory, 654 ; Arrival of sum- 

 mer on Barham Downs, 719 ; at 

 Pilling, 720; on Shooter's Hill, 720; 

 Nidification of at Elden, 722, 768 ; 

 Canary, singular death of, 764 ; 

 Black-headed gull, 455, 577. 

 Black redstart, 449, 494, 495. 

 Black rat, 616. 



Blackbird, nest and eggs of, 493. 

 Blackcap, correction respecting, 450. 

 Boar-fish on the coast of Cornwall, 769. 

 Bombardier beetle, habits of, 413, 475. 

 Bombus, notes on the British species, 541. 

 Bones of enormous birds found in New 



Zealand, 454. 

 Branchiae in the imago of Pteronarcys 



regalis, 478. 

 Bream, short sea, description of, 393. 

 Brepha Parthenias and Notha, 399. 

 British Association, 792. 

 Bullfinch breeding in confinement, 453. 

 Bunting, reed, correction respecting, 568 ; 



snow at Derby, 569. 

 Butterfly, cabbage, variety of, 471 ; new 



British, 682, 727. 

 Buzzard, honey, nesting of, 437; plumage 

 of, 491, 562 ; rough-legged at Hull, 

 491. 

 Callidium rubeocolle, 477. 

 Canary birds, club-footed, 726 ; singular 



death of, 764. 

 Cape pigeon, 579. 



Captures at Manchester, 399; with sugar, 

 399 ; of Lepidopterous insects, 400; 

 in Suffolk, 400; of Curculionida: in 

 Surrey, 412 ; of Coleoptera in Hei- 

 nault Forest, 413 ; of Echinoder- 

 mata at Ramsgate, 415 ; of Clytus 

 4-punctatus, 476; of Coleoptera in 

 Gloucestershire, 477 ; of Lepidop- 

 tera, 484 ; of Lepidoptera near Sud- 

 bury, 485 ; of Coleoptera near Sud- 

 bury, 486 ; of emperor moth, 540 ; 

 of British birds in Derbyshire, 553 ; 

 of sturgeon near Great Yarmouth, 

 580 ; of Anticlea berberata at Ep- 



