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CONTENTS, 



Wildfowl, 156 ; Osprey, 427 ; 

 Great Snipe, 428 ; variety of 

 Swallow, 428 ; American Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo, 474 

 Hertfordshire — Cuckoo, 155 : Dor- 

 mice, 472 

 Huntingdonshire — Kite, 354 

 Kent — House-Martin, 30; Eose- 

 coloured Pastor, 223 ; Chiffchaff, 

 888 ; Broad-billed Sandpiper, 

 390 

 Lancashire — Long-eared Owl, 31 ; 

 White W^agtail, 184 ; Cliiffchatf, 

 424 

 Leicestershire — Jack- Snipe, 31 

 Lincolnshire — Red-necked Phala- 

 rope, 72 ; Migration of birds, 

 201 ; Bats carrying their young, 

 315 

 Middlesex — Mistle-Thrush, 222 ; 

 with the birds, 272 ; jEgialitis 

 hiaticula, 389 

 Norfolk^Ltessei' Rorqual Whale, 

 28 ; Birds of Yarmouth and neigh- 

 bourhood, 98, 294; notes, 121, 

 160 ; spring migration, 121 ; 

 Little Bustard, 122 ; Long-tailed 

 Duck, 123 ; Little Auk, 124 ; 

 Green Woodpecker, 128 ; Cuc- 

 koo, 130 ; hybrid ducklings, 132; 

 Corn-Crake, 133 ; Red necked 

 Grebe, 134; Black Eat, 153; 

 Spoonbill, 269 ; Spotted Ray,274 ; 

 Lesser White-fronted Goose, 317 ; 

 Sandwich Tern, 390 ; Storm Pe- 

 trel in confinement, 478 

 Northamptonshire — Montagu's 



Harrier, 476 

 Nottinghamsliire — Great Grey 

 Shrike, 158; Snow-Bunting, 158; 

 Goosander, 158 ; White Leveret. 

 423 

 Oxfordshire — Bittern, 71 ; Whis- 

 kered Bat, 315 ; Little Owl, 476 

 Shropshire — Dormouse, 68, 423; 

 Moor-hen, 108 ; Chatitinch, 223 ; 

 Red-footed Falcon, 224 ; Hobby, 

 426 

 Somersetshire — Marsh-Warbler, 

 106, 472; Lesser Spotted Wood- 

 pecker, 184 

 Snffolli — Lowestoft Fith-wharf, 

 21: Shag, 70; Great Crested 

 Grebe, 161 ; Wood-Pigeon, 185 ; 

 Snipe, 185 ; Cuckoo, 317 ; birds 

 in nest-boxes, 318 ; notes, 477 

 Surrey — Vanessa polychloros, 32; 

 notes, 247 ; Hoopoe, 269 



Sussex — Willow-Tit, 29 ; Baird's 

 Sandpiper, 31 ; Ring-Ouzel, 69 ; 

 Nutcracker, 107 ; Bank-Vole, 

 153 ; File-Fish, 225 ; Lesser Red- 

 poll, 315 ; Common Roller, 

 316 ; Ornithomj'ia avicularia, 

 357 ; Blue-headed Wagtail, 389 ; 

 Broad-billed Sandpiper, 390 ; 

 Siskin, 426; Osprey, 427; Little 

 Bustard, 428 ; Leadbeater's Cock- 

 atoo, 478 

 WarwicTishire — Leopard Snake, 



159 ; Chiffchaff, 424 

 Worcestershire — Grasshopper 

 Warbler, 60 ; House-Martin, 69 ; 

 Sand-Martin, 69 ; Jackdaw, 70 ; 

 Nightjar, 70 ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker, 95 ; Lesser Spotted 

 Woodpecker. 107 ; Noctule, 153 ; 

 De Winton's Wood-Mouse, 423 

 Yorkshire — Ring-Ouzel, 28 ; Birds 

 of, 32, 33 ; Stonechat, 64 ; Little 

 Egret, 70 ; Dunlin, 91 ; bird- 

 notes, 108 ; Dunlin, 156 ; Pigmy 

 Shrew, 388 ; Stoat and Weasel 

 trapping, 388 ; Waxwing, 473 ; 

 Sooty Shearwater, 477 ; Sand- 

 wich Tern, 477 ; Montagu's Har- 

 rier, 477 ; Black Tern, 477 ; Black 

 Guillemot, 477 ; Grey Phalarope, 

 477 ; Mosquitoes, 479 

 Cracticus nigrigularis, 259 

 Crex prateusis, 209, 470 

 Crossbill, 251 i 



Crow, hybrid, 30 



Cuckoo,'^7, 207, 251, 317, 470 ; young, 

 early life of, 155 ; American Yel- 

 low-billed at Riugwood, 474 

 Cuckoos' eggs, 317 

 Cuculus cauorus, 7, 155. 207, 251, 



317, 470 

 Culex annulatus, 480 ; fatigans, life- 

 history, 439 

 Curlew, 253 

 Cursorius gallicus, 283 

 Cuttle-fishes and Dolphins, encounter - 



between, 238 

 Cyanecula wolfi, 10 

 Cj-clopterus lumpus, 160 

 Cvgnus bewicki, 284 ; musicus, 284, 



"410 

 Cypselus apus, 8 ; melba, 8 



Dafila acuta, 284, 411 



Dante as a naturalist, 361 



Delamere Forest, 239 



Delphinus delphis, 22 



Dendrocopus major, 7, 95, 207, 283, 



