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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS. 



Acarus injurious to orchids, 6461 



Acarus Orchidarum, id. 



Accentor, alpine, 6377 



Acherontia Alropos, sound produced by 



the larva of, 6337 ; breeding of, 6356; 



lame of, 6787 

 Acronycta, food of the genus, 6338, 6382, 



6462 



Acronycta Ligustri, food-plant of, 6462 

 Adamsia palliata, on the transfer of from 



shell to shell, 6580 

 Agelenidae, 6498 

 Agnia fasciata, 6470 

 Agrotis praecox, 6503 

 Alauda alpestris, 6706 

 „ arborea, 6596 

 „ arvensis, id. 

 „ ccelivox, 6724 

 „ magna, 6706 

 Alcedo alcyon, id. 

 Ampelis americana, 6701 

 Anas albecola, 6749 



„ americana, 6706 



„ canadensis, 6704 



„ roarila, 6706 



„ obscura, 6749 



„ sponsa, 6706 

 Anchoscelis pistacina, larva of, 6384 

 Andrenidae, 6610 



Animal possessions of the Egvptians, 

 6394 



Animals, bovine, notice of the various 

 species of, 6360, 6414, 6475, 6506, 

 6547, 6700 ; addendum to to the paper 

 on, 6700 ; note on the paper on, 

 6777 ; paintings of by the bushmen, 

 6737 



Animals, hereditary tricks in, 6673 



Anser ferus, 6376 



A i) thus arboreus, 6596 



„ obscurus, id. 



„ pratcnsis, id. 



„ Eiicardi, id. 

 Ants store the seeds of violets, 6(597 

 Aplecta occuliii, 6772 

 Arachnida, remarks on, taken chiefly in 



Dorsetshire and Hampshire, 6493 

 Ardea minor, 6719 



Bats flying in the sunshine, 6317 ; of 



Jamaica, 6587 

 Bee-eater, 6672 



Bees, late swarm of, 6348, 6388 ; roosting 

 by the mandibular process, 6468 ; 

 drinking from a chalybeate spring, 

 6773 



Birchall, Henry, extracts from the cor- 

 respondence of, 6403 



Bird, cedar, 6701 ; cat, 6747, 6784 ; 

 king, 6747 ; humming, 6748, 6784 



Bird's nest, inquiry respecting a, 6563 



Birds, sea, 6330; of Jamaica, notes on 

 the, 6368 ; rare, in Devon and Corn; 

 wall, 6376 ; rare, near Carlisle, 6378 

 colouring of the eggs of, 6380 ; mostly 

 akin to English, 6396 ; of Soudan, 

 sketch of the, 6397 ; singing at night, 

 6446 ; instinct of, 6491 ; sea, found 

 inland, 6492 ; remarks upon the mi- 

 gration of, 6531 ; nidification of, 6535 ; 

 migratory, arrival of, 6563, 6603 ; of 

 Jamaica, 6587 ; of Banffshire, 6595, 

 6631, 6665 ; rare, near Worthing, 

 6604 ; mountain, of Jamaica, 6658, 

 6709, 6753 ; of Canada observed near 

 Kingston during the spring of 1858, 

 6701, 6744; autumn notes on, 6761 ; 

 rare, driven inland by the recent great 

 storms, 6780 ; of Canada, observed 

 near Kingston during the latter part 

 of the summer and in the autumn of 

 1857, 6781 



Bittern, little, near Cardiff, 6562 ; 

 American, 6749 



Blackbird and thrush, friendly alliance 

 between, 6722 



Bluebird, 6704 



Bombycilla garrula, 6378 



Bones, fossil, in Philadelphia, 6448 



Bonito, plain, in the Moray Firth, 

 6731 



Brambling, 6598 



Bromfield, the late William Arnold, ex- 

 tracts from the letters of, 6393 

 Bryophila perla, food-plant of, 6505 

 Buffalo, water, 6399 

 Bullfinch, 6601 



