CONTENTS. 



XV 



Pleistocene and later Bird-fauna of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, 401-12 



Plover, Norfolk, in Suffolk in No- 

 vember, 467 



Plutella maculipennis (fig.), 137 



Podiceps fluviatilis, 269 



Polecat, distribution of, 151 ; in 

 Essex, 151 



Polygartkra platyptera, description 

 of, 163 



Polynemus tetradactylus, 101 



Porphyrio coeruleus, 240 



Portunus puber, 320 



Prawns, Common and iEsop, and 

 Sbrimp, hardiness in, 359 



Procellaria pelagica, 240 



Puffinus griseus, 70 



Babbit's nest, unusual site of, 226 



Ballidse, 240 



Bangifer tarandus, 228 



Bedbreast, symmetrically marked 

 variety of, 153 ; individual attach- 

 ment in, 153 



Bedshank, breeding in Oxfordshire, 

 206 



Bedstart, Black, in Bedfordshire, 

 155 ; in Cambridgeshire, 467 



Beeve in Staffordshire, 468 



' Beport of the Punjab Department 

 of Fisheries,' 274 



' Beport on the Trout-cultural opera- 

 tions in the Punjab, &c.,' 275 



' Beport on Cetacea stranded on the 

 British coasts during 1914,' 239 



Beports on Eastern Sea-Fisheries, 

 interesting and profitable reading, 

 17 



' Beptiles and Batrachians,' 200 



Beptiles of Maltese Islands, 321- 

 27 



Boach, feeding on Conferva rivu- 

 laris, 8 



Bobin, grey- breasted variation in, 

 436 



Bockling, Five-bearded, behaviour of 

 a captive (fig.), 190-3, 319 ; Four- 

 bearded, in the Colne, 319 



Boe-Deer, &c, remains of, 354 



Books, parental instinct in, 155 ; 

 food of, 144 



Buticilla titys, 155, 467 



Sacculus, and its contained otoliths 

 in Fishes, notes on, with list of 

 specimens examined (figs, vn., 

 iv., v., vi.), 25-34 



Sagartia davisi, 21 



Sandpiper, Common, Newton on, 

 184 ; Green, in Stour Valley, 68 



Saxicola deserta, 265 ; cenanthe, 

 230 



Scomber scriptus, 7 



Scotland — Anemones from Millport 

 Station, 21-4 ; Sense of Direction 

 in Birds, 41-53 ; Curlew, 70 ; 

 Bird-life in Aberdeenshire, 229 ; 

 Migratory residents, 230 ; Notes, 

 271 ; Oystercatcher, 281-91, 340- 

 46, 376-83, 426-31, 458-65 



Sea-Bullhead, notes on eggs and 

 larvee of, 292-6 



Sea-urchin, Purple-tipped, observa- 

 tions on the foreign objects carried 

 by, 441-53 



Sense of Direction in Birds, 41-53, 

 115, 156, 194 



Sex, determination of, 199 



Shrew, Water, variety of, 226 



Shrike, Grey, in Suffolk, 467 



Sillago sihama, 455 



Siphonostoma typhle, 147 



Slugs' and Snails' appetite for green 

 material, 159, 196 



Snipe flying with one of her brood 

 between her legs and breast, 

 131 



Solaster papposus, 437 



Solea lascaris, 4 



Sparrow, bark-peeling habit of, 36, — 

 robbing Starling, 271, — and Star- 

 ling in captivity, 116 ; Tree, in 

 Donegal, notes on, 297, 302 



' Spencer Fullerton Baird,' 397 



Spider-Crab, Four-horned, habits of 

 (figs. 1 and 2), 245-56 



Spider-Crabs fastening beef to their 

 bodies, 438 



Spoonbills on Breydon Broad, 122, 

 130 ; in John Bay's time, 123 



Sprat-harvests off East Coast, 1, 15 



Sprats as manure and as Sardines, 

 1 ; at Southwold, 16 



Squirrel, Grey, in Buckinghamshire 

 and elsewhere, 354, 393 



Squirrel and Sparrow-Hawk, strange 

 nesting associations of, 269 



Starfish, Common, attacking Syngna- 

 thus acus, 437 ; the way it eats a 

 Pipe-fish (two figs.), 147-50 



Starfishes feedingupon Siphonostoma 

 typhle, notes on (four figs.), 213-16 



Starling, depredations of, 137 ; great 

 migration at Great Yarmouth, 128; 

 Bose-coloured, in Bedfordshire, 

 118 



