CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Atkinson, Rev. John, M.A. 



Anecdote of a hare, 420 ; Anecdote of 

 a robin's nest, 566. 

 Atkinson, Rev. J. C, B.A. 



Keen scent of the stoat, 490 ; Moor- 

 hen, 497; Dahchick, 499 ; Notes on 

 fishes, 524 ; Nomenclature of Bri- 

 tish birds, 552, 553 ; Ringdove, 660 ; 

 On the habits of the moorhen, 756 ; 

 Note on the water-rail, 766 ; Notes 

 on the moorhen and dabchick, 767 ; 

 On the hedgehog, 791. 

 Babington, C. Cardale, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. 

 Bees and laurel trees, 609. 

 Banister, Rev. J. D. 



Black-headed gull, 577; Instinct in 

 wild w r eb-footed birds, 578 ; Sum- 

 mer birds at Pilling, 720. 

 Barclay, A. F. 



Gordius aquaticus, 396 ; Cuckoo in 

 confinement, 655. 

 Barclay, E. E. 



Bullfinch breeding in confinement, 453. 

 Barclay, H. 



On the black rat, 616 ; Summer birds 

 at Laytou, Essex, 651. 

 Barclay, J. Gurney. 



Habits of the hawfinch, 569 ; Correc- 

 tion of the above, 659. 

 Bartlett, J. Pemberton. 



Goatsucker, or night-hawk, 445 ; Nest- 

 ing-place of the Swallow, 446 ; 

 Wryneck, 449 ; Singular noise made 

 by a sparrow, 452 ; Guinea-hen's 

 eggs in a partridge's nest, 454 ; 

 Hoopoe nesting in Surrey, 564 ; 

 Torpidity in a bat, 613; Ornithology 

 of Kent, 617; On the water-rail, 

 669 ; Trochilium Ichneumoniforme, 

 683 ; Corrections on the birds of 

 Kent, 718 ; Summer-birds on Bar- 

 ham Downs, 719. 

 Barton, Stephen. 



Clytus 4-punctatus near Bristol, 476. 

 Bates, Henry Walter. 



Habits of Coleoptera, 410; Epaphius 

 Secalis, 476 ; Ocys melanocephalus, 

 476; Hylesinus Fraxini, 610; Va- 



riety of Pamphila linea, 683 ; Clear- 

 winged Sphingidae near Leicester, 

 683 ; Conops flavipes, 688 ; Coleop- 

 tera in Leicestershire, 699. 

 Bedell, Geo. 



Lepidopterous insects at Charlton, 735. 

 Bell, R. J. 



Late stay of the swallow, 565 ; Snow- 

 bunting at Derby, 569; Red-throated 

 diver near Derby, 576 ; Summer 

 birds near Derby, 652. 

 Bell, Thos., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



British specimens of the edible frog, 

 727. 

 Bentley, Wm. 



Description of Pseudotomia Artemi- 

 sia, 774. 

 Bladon, James. 



Change of colour in a fowl, 726 ; 

 Kittiwake near Pontypool, 727; Sin- 

 gular application of a spider's thread, 

 728. 

 Bold, Thos. John. 



Honey-buzzard, 562 ; Habits of a pi- 

 geon, 659 ; Acarus found on a moth, 

 680. 

 Bond, Frederick. 



Edible frog in Cambridgeshire, 393 ; 

 Colias Edusa and Hyale, 397 ; An- 

 thus petrosus, 447 ; Kestril hawk, 

 491 ; Summer birds at Kingsbury, 

 650 ; Missel thrushes, 656 ; Hen 

 changing her colour, 667 ; On the 

 edible frog, 677; Rare waders at 

 Kingsbury reservoir, 767. 

 Booth, Mark. 



Osprey, &c, near the Swale, in York- 

 shire, 443. 

 Bowerbank, J. S., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Halisarca Dujardinii, 750. 

 Bree, Rev. W. T., M.A., F.L.S. 



Colias Edusa, var. Helice, 472 ; Cap- 

 ture of moths by sugar, 736 ; Toads 

 in stone, 769. 

 Briggs, J. J. 



Migration of birds in Derbyshire, 440 ; 

 Seeds sown by animals, 442 ; Song 

 of birds, 442 ; Wood wren, 451 ; 

 British birds in Derbyshire, 553, 



