CONTENTS. 



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Shrew, 477 ; Pectoral Sandpiper, 

 521, 557 

 Surrey — Water Shrew, 142 ; Great 

 Spotted Woodpecker, 322 ; Cur- 

 lew, 382 ; Cuckoo's egg in Song 

 Thrush's nest, 520 ; Mammalia, 

 559 

 Sussex— Black Eedstart, 37 ; Chiff- 

 chaff, 143 ; Water-Pipit, 278 ; 

 Melodious Warbler, 518 

 Wales— Notes 76; Kite, 76, 79; 

 Nuthatch, 78; Hoopoe, 82 ; Great 

 Plover, 173, 270, 458 ; tameness 

 of unmolested birds, 280 ; Little 

 Owl, 482, 556; Vertebrate Fauna 

 of North Wales, 485 ; Birds of 

 Lleyn, 489 ; Jack Snipe 557 

 Wiltshire — Marsh Warbler, 555 

 Worcestershire — Lesser Shrew, 

 142 ; Great Tit, 423 ; Sea-Lam- 

 prey, 144 ; Green Plover, 187 ; 

 Common Sparrow, 424 ; Starling, 

 425 ; Swift, 479 ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker, 278 

 Yorkshire — Bittern, 83 ; Water 

 Shrew, 186; notes, 229, 432; 

 Black-headed Gull, 231 ; Lesser 

 Tern, 232 ; Eed-crested Pochard, 

 483; Stone Curlew, 483 ; Levan- 

 tine Shearwater, 521 

 Crab, Edible, meristic variation in, 



484 

 Crabs, mimicry and other habits of, 



287 

 Crake, Little, in Shropshire, 280 

 Crambessa, 346 

 Crateropus bicolor, 122 

 Creeper, Wall, on the Eigi, 269 

 Crex pratensis, 29, 210, 535 

 Crossbill, Common, in confinement, 



114 ; at Shrewsbury, 321 

 Crow, Carrion, on the Eigi, 268 

 Cuckoo in Eedstart's nest, 13 ; in 

 Eobin's, 13 ; with egg in its mouth, 

 105, 106 ; how does she carry the 

 egg?, 262, — fig., 264; breeding in 

 London district, 438, 439, 481 ; in 

 the Shetlands, 426 ; in Aberdeen, 

 481 

 Cuculus canorus, 13, 20, 105, 106, 208, 

 262, 231, 410, 426, 433, 438, 439, 

 454, 481 

 Curculionidse, 347 



Curlew nesting in Surrey, 382 ; at 

 sea, 483 ; Stone, in Cleveland in 

 winter, 483 

 Cyanecula suecica, 203, 398 

 Cyclochila australasiae, 347 



Cyclograpsus lavauxi, 348 



Cyclophoridae, 305 



Cyclostoma, 306, 307, 308 ; articula- 



tum, 37 ; voltzianum, 305 

 Cyclostomatidae, 306 

 Cygnus bewicki, 39, 529 ; commuta- 



bilis, 530 ; musicus, 529 

 Cypraea europsea, 316 

 Cypraeidae, 316 

 Cypridina, 356 

 Cypris, 357 

 Cypselus apus, 52, 208, 224, 269, 321, 



408, 453, 479, 520, 556; melba, 224, 



409, 453 



Dafila acuta, 531 



Darwin's ' Origin of Species,' cheap 



edition, 390 

 Daulias luscinia, 53, 398, 450 

 Decoy, agreement for hiring a, 160 

 Dendrocopus major, 278, 322, 409, 



433; minor, 322,409, 433 

 Dendrocycna eytoni, 419 

 Derbyshire Ornithology, rough notes 



on, 428 

 Dermacentor reticulatus, 326 

 Diary, Observational, of habits of 



Great Plover, 173, 270, 458 

 Diatoniaceae, 350 

 Diomedea exulans, 288 ; melano- 



phrys, 324 

 Discomeduss3, 346 

 Discophorae, 354 

 Dismorphia, 553 

 Dog and Fox hybrid, 477 

 Dorididae, 302 

 Dotterel in Derbyshire, 429 

 Doves, hybrid, 281 

 Dreissensia polymorpha, 343 

 Drilus, 305 

 Duck, Tufted, breeding in Shropshire, 



506 



Echinus, 342 ; esculentus, 342 

 Ecuador, a naturalist's notes in, 93 

 Eel, an extinct, in the English Chalk, 



198 

 Egg of Cuckoo in Marsh-Warbler's 

 nest, 20, — in Hedge-Sparrow's, 231, 

 — in Song-Thrush's, 520 ; of iEpy- 

 ornis maximus, 48 ; of Aylesbury 

 Duck, unusually large, 107 

 Eggs, hard-set, a suggestion, 189; of 

 Great Auk, sale, 343 ; number of, 

 in nest of Swift, 520, 556 

 Elephant, African, large tusks of, 47 ; 

 Sea, on Kergueeln's Land, 441,— 

 disturbed rest, fig., 444 



