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CONTENTS. 



Deroplatys desiccata, 295, 296, 304 ; 



shelf ordi, sp.n., 296 

 Diary, a naturalist's, 281, 371 

 Dipper, 210 

 Diver, Bed-throated, protection of, at 



its Irish breeding-place, 91, 154 

 Donax vittatus, 185 

 Donegal, ornithological notes from, 89 

 Dormouse in Cardiganshire, 104 

 Dotterel in Cheshire, 180, 230 

 Dove, Ring, 212 ; Rock, inland in 



Somerset, 108, 153, 208, 230, 317 ; 



Stock, in Isle of Man, 180, 212, 



316, 319 ; Turtle, 180 

 Drornseus ater, 81 ; irroratus, 82 ; 



novae-hollandiae, 82, 461 

 Duck, Sheld, 130, — nestling, fig., 



131 ; Tufted, in Merionethshire, 



316 

 Duck's bill, variability in colour, 107 

 Dungeness, birds of, 214 



Eagle, White-tailed, in Suffolk, 107 ; 



at Leadenhall Market, 458 

 Egg of Curlew, a spotless, 352 

 Eggs of birds, protective coloration 



of, 73 

 Einberiza cirlus, 305, 448 ; citrinella, 



305, 353, 365, 465; miliaria, 305, 

 465 ; rustica, 419 ; schceniclus, 365, 

 465 



Emeu, Australian, 461 ; Black, 81, — 

 fig., 83 ; Common, 82 ; Spotted, 82 

 Erithacus rubecula, 262, 363, 461, 465 

 Eudrornias morinellus, 230, 450 



Falco sesalon, 367, 419, 445 ; pere- 

 grinus, 91, 92, 420, 421 ; subbuteo, 

 351,421,445; tmnunculus, 92,267, 



306, 367 



Falcon, Peregrine, 212 



Felis chaus, 94 ; domestica, 234 



Field notes, 281, 371 



Fireflies in writings of antiquity, 113 



Flamingo nesting in Bahama Island, 

 40 



Flints, chipped, at Yenangyoung, Up- 

 per Burma, 254 



Flycatcher, Pied, 178 



Food of Quail, 138 ; of Gulls, 461 



Fowls, Long-tailed Japanese, experi- 

 ments with, 160 



Fox, Flying, destruction by, in Syd- 

 ney, 234 



Fratercula arctica, 277, 310 



Fringilla ccelebs, 157, 305, 365 ; nionti- 

 fringilla, 365 



Fulica atra, 224, 452 



Fuligula cristata, 233, 275, 316; fe- 



rina, 233, 275 

 Fusus antiquus, 187 



Gadus morrhua, 383 



Gallinago major, 421 ; ccelestis, 369, 



428,451; gallinula, 369, 428 ; ster- 



nura, 428 

 Gallinula chloropus, 158, 233, 351 

 Gannet, 213 

 Garrulus glandarius, 27 

 Gaur or Pyoung, Burmese, 264 

 Geese, Bean, British (Plate II.), 41 ; 



British Grey, 268, 315 ; Domestic, 



variety in, 28 

 Gerbillus indicus, 98 

 Giraffe's bilobed canine, use of, 225 

 Glareola melauoptera, 421 ; pratin- 



cola, 420 

 Goat suckling a lamb, 311 

 Gobius capito, 429 ; paganellus, 429; 



niger, 429 

 Goby, Giant, in Cornwall, 429 

 Godwit, Bar-tailed, 208 

 Goldcrest, 210 

 Goldfinch in Australia, 191, 236 ; in 



Tasmania, 191 ; in South Africa, 



227, 432 ; status in Britain, 23, 70, 



104, 152, 190 

 Goose, Bean, 209, — variation of, 164; 



Snow, in Ireland, 459 

 Grampuses on Yorkshire coast, 388 

 Grebe, Great Crested, on Mansfield 



Reservoir, 231 

 Greenfinch, albino, 21 

 Greenshank, 209 

 Grouse, Black. 180 ; Red, 212 

 Gryllacris, 296 

 Guernsey, ornithological notes from, 



231, 277 

 Guillemot, Black, 181 ; Common, 



variation in, 194, 230, 275 

 Gull, Black-headed, nesting, 128, 224 ; 



Common, 180 ; Herring, 308, 352 ; 



Lesser Black-headed, 213, 308, 352 ; 



Little, var.,172; Sabine's, in York- 

 shire, 353, 394, 436 

 Gulls feeding, 461 



Htematopus ostralegus, 308, 369 



Hale von smyrnensis, 428 



Haliaetus albicilla, 107, 367, 445, 458 ; 

 leucocoryphus, 426 



Hampshire downs, prolificness of 

 Sheep on, 40 



Harrier, Hen, in Dorset, 152, — in 

 Nott3, 459 ; Montagu's, in Derby- 

 shire, 268 



