CONTENTS. 



XV11 



Shrew, Little, in Aberdeenshire, 31 ; 



in Shropshire, 429 

 Shrike, Bed-backed, 468 ; and its 



prey, 809, 387 

 Singing haunts and habits of some 



British birds, 71 ; of Nightingales 



in Algeria in August, 430 

 Sitta caesia, 131, 149 ; canadensis, 



294 

 Skeleton of Dinosaur, largest, 161 

 Skua, Buffon's, in Somerset, 36 ; 



Bichardson's, 171 

 Smew in Cheshire, 143 

 Snipe, 102 ; Great, in Aberdeenshire, 



466 ; Sabine's, 458 

 Solea lascaris, 442 

 Somateria v-nigrum, 74, 142, 143, 



185 

 Song, autumn, of Willow-Wren, 32 ; 



of Chiffchaff, 32 ; of Dipper, 71 

 Sorex minutus, 31, 72; in Shropshire, 



429 

 Sounds produced by Owls, 183, 233, 



234, 264, 265, 311, 313, 392 

 Sparrow-Hawk and Kestrel, fight be- 

 tween, 178 

 Sparrow, Hedge, 48, — and Green- 

 finch rearing each other's young, 



431 ; House, 49, — var., 74 ; Tree, 



in East Lothian, 464 

 Spatula clypeata, 73, 112, 187, 208 ; 



in Surrey, 435 

 Speotyto cunicularia, 288 

 Spinus pinus, 299 

 Spizella monticola, 299 

 Spoonbill, 89 

 Squirrel, disappearance of a local 



form, 387 

 Starling, 49, 110,— var., 99, 100, 263, 



310 ; Beunion, 418 

 Stercorarius catarrhactes, 74 ; para- 

 siticus, 36 ; crepidatus, 190 

 Sterna cantiaca, 465 ; fluviatilis, 177, 



259 ; minuta, 177, 259 

 Stint, Little, 424 

 Stoat, winter whitening in Britain, 



308 ; white at end of September, 



429 

 Stonechat, 48, 466 ; var., 99 

 Strepsilas interpres, 176 

 Strix flammea, 35 

 Sturnus vulgaris, 32, 110, 149, 210, 



263, 299 

 Suffolk, ornithological notes from, 72 

 Sula bassana, 177 ; serrator, 127 

 Sun-fish at Great Yarmouth, 444 

 Surrey, ornithological notes from, 



147, 187, 286, 237, 349 



Swallow, 383, 469 ; late breeding, 69 ; 



var., 99 ; abnormal nests of, 121, 



180, 181 

 Swan, Bewick's, 58 

 Swift, 385 ; late stay, 388, 434, 464 

 Swimming of Bat, 231 

 Swordfish and Thresher v. Whale, 



31 

 Sylvia atricapilla, 148 ; cinerea, 148 ; 



curruca, 110, 148 ; hortensis, 148, 



849 ; melanocephala, 212 ; ruep- 



pelli, 210 ; undata, 309 

 Syrnium aluco, 147, 188, 263 



Tadorna casarea, 107 ; cornuta, 112 



Tasmania, South, monthly notes 

 taken in, for 1902, 124 ; Notes 

 taken in 1903, 329 ; Little Penguin, 

 329 



Teal, 103 



Tern, Arctic, 425 ; Black, in Che- 

 shire, 398, — near Bingwood, 393, 

 — at Bampton, 449, — in Oxford- 

 shire, 458 ; Common, 425 ; Little, 

 425, 469 ; Sandwich, 465 



Terns, Norfolk, 258 



Thames, fish and ova placed in, 356 



Thornback-Bay, var., 445 



Thrush, Dusky, in Notts, 466 ; Mistle, 



47, 468 ; Song, 47 

 Thryonomys (or Aulacodns) swinderi- 



anus, 471 

 Tit, Blue, 48,— breeding habits, 309, 

 346, 430 ; Coal, 48, 381 ; Great, 



48, — breeding habits, 309, 346, 

 430 ; Long-tailed, 48, 381 



Toad, Common, var., 315 ; Natter- 

 jack, in Bedfordshire, 315 

 Torpedo hebetans, 112 

 Totanus calidris, 176, 210 ; fuscus, 



349 ; hypoleucus, 150, 176, 211 ; 



ochropus, 209 ; stagnatalis, 209 

 Trachurus trachurus, 446 

 Trapelaphus scriptus, 271 

 Trigla cuculus, 441 ; hirundo, 442 ; 



lineata, 441 

 Tringa alpina, 176, 348 ; subarquata, 



145 

 Troglodytes parvulus, 107, 140, 141, 



179 

 Tardus dubius, 466 ; iliacus, 176, 



349 ; merula, 129, 148, 190, 212 ; 



musicus, 148, 212; pilaris, 148, 



176 ; viscivorus, 148 

 Turnstone, 101, 423 

 Turtur communis, 150, 190 ; sene- 



gallensis, 212 

 Twite, breeding haunts of, 389, 431 



