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Bat eating bacon, 8675 



Bates, Walter Henry, 'The Naturalist 



on the River Amazons,' 8537 

 Beard, lesser forked, in Mount's Bay, 



Cornwall, 8642 

 Bee, hive, Sirex Gigas an enemy of, 



8343 



Beetle-collecting, a day's, on Schehallion, 

 8412 



Bembidium new to the British Fauna, 

 capture of in the North of England, 

 8610 



„ Mannerheimii, capture of in 

 the North of Scotland, 8652 



'Birds of India,' 8617 



Birds, of the Amur, 8329 ; humming, 

 8432, 8485, 8486, 8549 ; rare, at Dal- 

 key, 8447 ; in Devonshire, 8448 ; 

 British, in their haunts, 8497; fas- 

 cination of by light, 8630, 8817 ; small, 

 nidification of, 8630 ; British, list of, 

 found in South Africa, 8675 ; summer 

 migratory, scarcity of in the East 

 Biding of Yorkshire, 8726 ; small, 

 food of, 8760, 8813, 8814, 8815, 8816 ; 

 contents of the stomachs of during 

 each month of the year, 8761 ; summer, 

 dates of arrival of, 8771 ; scarcity of 

 certain, 8816, 8842; arrival and de- 

 parture of, at Taunton, 8816 ; various, 

 nesting and eggs of, 8817 ; migratory, 

 a glance at the autumnal visit of at 

 the Scilly Islands, 8847 



Bittern, at Eastbourne, 8446; little, in 

 Yorkshire, 8770 



Blackbird, singing in February, 8484, 

 8523 ; food of, 8763 



Blackbird's nest, 8325 ; on the ground, 

 8679 



Bombvx Callunae, mode of laying eggs 



of, 8647 

 „ Quercus, 8729 

 Brephos Parthenias, note on, 8472 

 ' British Birds in their Haunts,' 



8497 



Bubo caligatus, 8742 



Budytes flava var. Rayi, 8759 



Bunting, blackheaded, eggs of, 8633; 

 snow, in June, 8680; ortolan, at Guis- 

 borough, 8768 j snow, near Barn- 

 staple, 8845 



Buphus coromandus, 8808 



Bustard, supposed gular pouch of the 

 male, 8556 



Butorides javanicus, 8808 



Buzzard, honey, near Eastbourne, 8325 ; 

 roughlegged, on the Norfolk coast, id. ; 

 common, at Battle, 8441 ; roughlegged, 

 in Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire, id. ; 

 at Ashburnham Park, 8442; honey, 



in Shetland, 8631 ; in Inverness- 

 shire, 8765 

 Caddis-worms, singular, at Fat-si-jien, 



8533 



Cselotes moerens, 8572 

 Calosoma sycophanta in Devonshire, 

 8413 



Campagnole in Derbyshire, 8554 



Caprimulgus stictomus, 8742 



Captures in the North, 8412 ; marine, in 



the vicinity of Torquay, 8799 

 Caretta squamata, 8853 

 Cataclysta lemnalis, economy of, 8733 

 Cells, hexagonal, 8496 

 Centropus viridis, 8805 

 Chaerocampa Nerii, 8605 

 Chaffinch, 8500 ; blue variety of egg of, 



8631; and the gooseberry grub, 8720; 



food of, 8764 

 Charadrius hiaticula, 8828 

 Cheimatobia brumata, description of the 



larva of, 8699 

 Chelonia virgata, 8853 

 Chu-Kiang, by the banks of the, 



8457 



Cidaria immanata ana" C. russala, notes 



on, 8784 

 Cimbex Ameriuae, 8789 

 Cinclus Pallasi, 8750 

 Ciniflo puia, 8570 

 Ciniflonidae, id. 



Cionus ScrophulariEe, food -plant of, 

 8344 



Circus spilonotus, 8740 



Cis new to Britain, capture of in Scot- 

 land, 8792 



Cisticola volitans, 8757 



Cistoclemmys flavomarginata, 8852 



Clava multicomis, 8616 



Clostera anachoreta at Folkestone, 8694 

 „ curtula, description of the larva 

 of, 8785 



Clubiona reclusa, 8567 



Cobra and mongoose, fight between, 

 8771 



Coeuonympha Typhon, 8727 

 Coleophora artemisicolella, 8735 

 Coleoptera, list of English genera of, 

 taken in China, 8652; captures of, 

 near Wickham, 8703 

 Coleopterous doings in Kent and Devon- 

 shire, 8793 

 Colias Edusa on the 24th of October, 

 8342 



Corvus sinensis, 8803 



Cossonus Tardii, 8730 



Cotyle sinensis, 8746 



Crake, little, in Pevensey Marshes, 8330 ; 

 spotted, in Pevensey Marshes and 

 near Cambridge, id.; near Taunton, 



