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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



Adams, Arthur, F.L.S. 



A visit to Pratas Island, 8183 ; How 

 they fatten ducks in China, 8196; 

 Capture fof a recent Belerophina 

 in the Indian Ocean, 8200; Among 

 the Ainos, 8230; Singular capture 

 of an Octopus, 8240 

 Anderson, R. 



Sugar and sallows, 8023; Will 1862 

 pass over without an Entomological 

 Intelligencer? 8053 

 Archer, F. 



On the use of glycerine for preserving 

 shells, 8051 

 Atkinson, Rev. J. C. 



Note on the merlin, 7843; Note on 

 the food of the kestrel, 7844 ; Note 

 on the goosander, 7848 

 Barclay, W. L. 



Three ravens feeding on a dead hare 

 at Higham, 7932 ; Green sandpiper 

 at Ley ton, 7939 

 Barnston, George 



Recollections of the swans and geese 

 of Hudson's Bay, 7831 

 Bartlett, H. 



Agrotis suffusa taken at sugar in April, 

 8052" 



Bartlett, Rev. J. Pemberton, M.A. 

 Short-toed lark and other rare birds in 

 Hampshire, 7930 

 Beck, Richard 



Viscid lines in a spider's web, 7884 ; 

 Coccus of the rose, 7894 

 Bell, Alwin S. 



Blackthroated diver near Scarborough, 

 8005 



Bell, Thomas, F.R.S. 



Occurrence of the little auk inland, 

 7883 



Birchall, Edwin 



Lepidoptera captured in 1862, 8203; 

 Zygsena Minos in Ireland — the ex- 

 termination question, 8205 

 Blake-Knox, H. 



Egyptian goose near Dublin, 7939 ; 

 Notes on birds' nests, 7997; Black 

 redstart in the county of Dublin, 

 8034 ; Sabine's gull in Dublin Bay, 

 8093 ; The common sandpiper a 

 diver, 8195 

 Blakiston, Captain Thomas 



On the Ornithology of Northern Japan, 

 8270; Occurrence of the knot in 

 Lancashire in August, and its eastern 

 range, 8287 

 Blyth, Edward 

 The iguana not an inhabitant of Tas- 

 mania, 8289 

 Bold, Thomas John 



Curious habit of the shrew, 8192 ; 

 Notes on some peculiarities of 

 insect life in 1861, 8240 

 Bond, Frederick 



The little gull, 7939; Note on Sabine's 

 snipe, Jack snipe, 8000 



BOULTON, W. W. 



Little bustard in Yorkshire, 7938 

 Bree, C. R., M.D., F.L.S. 



Golden oriole in Essex, Parrot cross- 

 bill near Colchester, 8032 ; Hoopoe 

 in Essex, 8034; Deilephila lineata 

 at Colchester, 8052; Notes about 

 magpies, 8162 

 Bree, Rev. W. T., M.A. 



Gathering of magpies, 7846; Note on 

 the supposed British specimen of 

 Argynnis Aphrodite, 7852 

 Bridger, W. 



Hoopoe and spoonbill in Surrey, 8283 



