CONTENTS. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Aberdeen, notes from, 108, 353 

 Accentor modularis, 263, 364, 465 

 Accipiter nisus, 367 

 Acipenser sturio, 385 

 Acredula caudata, 350 

 Acrocephalus aquaticus, 418 ; phrag- 

 naitis, 189 ; sp. ? 364 ; streperus, 

 465 ; turdoides, 432 

 ^Egialitis cantiana, 216-219, 277 ; hia- 



ticula, 193, 219 

 Africa, South, Goldfinch in, 227, 432; 



East, some Chameleons of, 321 

 Alauda arborea, 72, 448 ; arvensis, 



306, 366, 466 

 Albino Greenfinch, 21 ; Hedgehog, 



387 ; Moorhens, 351 

 Alca impennis, 436 ; torda, 157, 278, 



309 

 Alcedo ispida, 232, 366, 428 

 Amblystoma tigrinuin, 385 

 Ampelis garrulus, 448, 456 

 Amphibians of Suffolk, 31 

 Amsterdam Aquarium (Plate VI.), 



382 

 Anabas scandens, 384 

 Anas boscas, 275, 318, 367 ; strepera, 



275 

 Anodonta cygnea, 187 

 Anser albifrons, 270, 452 ; arvensis, 

 165, — and segetum, difference" be- 

 tween, 44, 46, 165 ; brachyrhyn- 

 chus, 169, 269, 367 ; cinereus, 46 ; 

 fabalis, 164 ; ferns, 452 ; indicus, 

 427 ; rubrirostris, as a British bird, 

 46, 233, 273 ; segetum, 164, 270, 452 

 Anthus pratensis, 465 

 Ardeola grayi, 428 

 Arion ater, 188 

 Aristotle, birds mentioned by, 241, 



316, 318, 398 

 Arnoglossus laterna, 354 

 Arvicola agrestis, 311 ; glareolus, 69 

 Asio accipitrinus, 366, 446; otus, 232, 



446 

 Astur palumbarius, 446 

 Auk, Great??, 436 

 Australia, "Flying Fox," 234; zoolo- 

 gical notes from Sydney, 234 ; in- 

 troduced animals flourish, 191, 234 ; 

 Emeu, 461 

 Australia and Tasmania, catalogue 



of nests and eggs of birds found 

 breeding in, 80 

 Avifauna of Outer Hebrides, 115 



Badger, gestation of, 441 



Balamiceps rex, 159 



Bat, Lesser Horseshoe, in Carnar- 

 vonshire, 430; Mouse-coloured, a 

 British example of, 387 ; Natterer's, 

 in Bedfordshire, 349, — in Oxford- 

 shire, 349, — in Surrey, 349 



Beluga or White Whale at Scar- 

 borough, 387 



Bernpton Cliffs, birds of, 37 



Bengal, mammals of, collected and 

 observed in Darbhanga District, 

 Tirhoot, 94 



Bernicla brenta, 452 ; leucopsis, 452 



Bird, a vanishing British, 228 ; notes 

 in Sark, 260, 305, — from Shetland, 

 157, 469 ; life on an Indian marsh, 

 426 



Birds of Bempton Cliffs, 37 ; Wild, 

 do they die instantly? 79, 108; 

 found breeding in Australia and 

 Tasmania, catalogue of nests and 

 eggs of, 80 ; of Thetford Warren, 

 100, 155; killed by Ticks, 108, 155, 

 194 ; large, ring for, fig., 136 ; posi- 

 tion of legs during flight, 139 ; 

 of N.W. Wales and the opposite 

 counties of Ireland, 176; of Lleyn, 

 201 ; of Dungeness, 214 ; spring 

 rivalry of, 238 ; mentioned by Aris- 

 totle, 241, 316, 318, 398 ; sea, in- 

 land, 277,— slaughter of, 354, 395 ; 

 can and do they reason ? 328, 396 ; 

 and sound of firearms, 276, 318 ; 

 some British, singing of, 334; mi- 

 gration of, 27, 123,— in N.E. Lin- 

 colnshire, 361 ; sexual selection and 

 aesthetic sense in, 407 ; rare, from 

 Kent and Sussex, 418 

 Birds' eggs, protective coloration of, 



73 ; legs during flight, 189 

 Bison europaeus, 200 

 Bittern, 209 



Blackbird, nesting-sites of, 69 ; and 

 Song-Thrush, hybrid between, 12 ; 

 laying on the ground, 23, 70 

 Blackcap, 177, 207 



