CONTENTS. 



IX 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Accentor, Hedge, 138 

 Accentor rnodularis, 182, 430 

 Accipiter nisus, 192, 309 

 Acredula caudata, 28, 182 

 Acrocephalus arundinaceus, 269 ; 



palustris, 267, 401 ; phragrnitis, 



181; streperus, 181, 270 

 iEgialitis hiaticola, 87 

 Agelena labyrinthica, 60 

 Alauda arborea, 232; arvensis, 35, 



232 ; cristata, 67 

 Albania, Great White Heron in, 441 

 Alca torda, 351 

 Alcedo ispida, 233 

 Alectorcenas nitidissinia, 49 

 Alopecias vulpes, 398 

 Amathilla hornari, 332 

 Anas boscas, 86, 281, 386 

 Anchovy at Yarmouth, 435, 457 

 Anglesea Bird-notes, 94 

 Animals, Marine, phytogenic, 1 

 Anser brachyrhynchus, 115 ; sege- 



tum, 116 

 Antelope, Blaauwbok, 49 

 Anthus campestris, 463; obscurus, 



35, 85, 466; pratensis, 85, 183; 



rupestris, 466 ; spipoletta, 124, 



463 ; trivialis, 183 

 Araneae around Yarmouth, 58 

 Arctic Whaling Voyage of 1905, 



notes on, 41 

 Arctus ursus (Scyllarus arctus) at 



Guernsey, 78 

 Ardea alba, 361, 441 ; cinerea, 115, 



309 ; ralloides, 365 

 Ardetta minuta, 362 

 Arnoglossus laterna, 332, 453, 456 

 Asio accipitrinus, 309 

 Auk, Little, 139, 345 

 Avocet, 123, 129, 130 ; near Bye, 152 



Balistes capriscus, 470 



Barnstaple, winter ornithological 

 notes from, 237 



Bat, Daubenton's, in Surrey, 429 ; 

 Lesser Horseshoe, in Denbighshire, 

 70 ; Long- eared, 348, — at Great 

 Yarmouth, 26 ; Natterer's, in 

 Somersetshire, 312 ; Noctule, notes 

 on, 26, — in Surrey, 429; Whis- 

 kered, in Denbighshire, 70, — Brit- 



ish distribution of, 348, 349 ; Pipi- 

 strelle, 348 



Bats in Berkshire, 185 ; notes on, 

 348 ; Cave, notes on, 69 



Bedfordshire, Churchwardens' Ac- 

 counts of, 161, 253 



Bee-eater, 297 



Beetle, British, a re-discovered, 317 



Belone vulgaris, 455 



Bird records, early, 35 ; notes from 

 Shetland, 35 ; migration at Scar- 

 borough, 31 ; notes in Switzerland 

 and Germany in June and July, 

 1905, 65 ; notes from Anglesea, 94 



Birds, local variation of habits in, 

 111 ; interesting, in Yarmouth 

 market, 115 ; of Donegal, some 

 notes on, 153 ; imported into 

 United States (in 1904), 160; of 

 Staines district, 179, 230, 307, 386; 

 sexual selection in, 201, 285, 419 ; 

 caged, habits of some, 220 ; with 

 only one leg apiece, 237 ; of Scilly, 

 241, 295, 335, 470; of Somme, 

 266 ; names of, uncertain in origin 

 or meaning, 271, 303, 439 ; home- 

 bred, disappearance of many, in 

 autumn, 459 



Birds' eyes, colour of, 75, 109, 112, 

 113, 194, 236 



Birdsnesting in August, 353 



Bittern, American, 302; Common, 

 302, — in Somerset, 314 ; Little, 

 302 



Blackbird, 138, 243, 268, 336 ; nest 

 in pasture-field, 140 ; laying twice 

 in same nest, 235, 274, 312, 390 ; 

 does it eat snails ?, 312, 349, 390 



Blackcap, 65, 244, 268; mimical 

 song of, 108 



Black-Game and Pheasant, hybrids 

 which have occurred between, in 

 Great Britain, 321, 395, 433 



Books Noticed : — 



Nature in Eastern Norfolk, by 



Arthur H. Patterson, 38 

 The Birds of Hampshire and the 

 Isle of Wight, by the Bev. J. 

 E. Kelsall and Philip W. Munn, 

 39 

 Eggs of the Birds of Europe, in- 



