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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

Ægialites hiaticula, 3809
Alligators, economic value of, 3954
Angler or fishing-frog at the Man-
chester Aquarium, 4264
Animals, aquarium, transmission of,
3845; and plants, observations on
in reference to the theory of Evolu-
tion of Living Forms, 3925; struc-
ture, habits and economy of, 3965
Apteryx, the; its mode of feeding,
4198

Apteryx australis, 3939

Haastii, 4014; recent occur-
rence of, 4158

Oweni, 3979

Aquariums, the denizens of, 3876
Astroides calicularis of Milne-Ed-
wards, 3955

Auk, little, 3819; and dunlin, 4200
Avocet, 4230

Barbastellus Daubentonii, 4128

Bat, hairy-armed, in Ireland, 4071,

4236; noctule, food of, 4153; note

on, 4194

Bats, a flight of, 4075; British, notes
on, 4125

Bell, Thomas, F.R.S., ‘A History of
British Quadrupeds, including the
Cetacea,' 4005

Belt, Thomas, The Naturalist in
Nicaragua,' 3925

Bernicla Brenta, 3814

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Blackwall, John, F.L.S., Researches
in Zoology, illustrative of the
Structure, Habits and Economy of
Animals,' 3965

Boreogadus Fabricii, 3820
Bream, Ray's, near Penzance, 4266
British Association for the Advance-
ment of Science: Belfast (1874),
4195

Buist, K. A., Birds, their Cages and
their Keep,' 4245

Bunting, blackheaded, 3866

snow, 3805, 3857, 3862, 3864,

3913

Buzzard, common, 3826, 3871, 3996,

4063, 4065

honey, 3824, 3869; near
Huddersfield, 4153; in Cheshire,

4237

roughlegged, 3908

Buzzard near Newmarket, 3830
Buzzards in Norfolk, 4117

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Dovekie, Mandt's, 3817

Duck, burrow, 4133

eider, 3816

king, 3817

longtailed, 3816

tame, voracity of a, 4078
wild, nesting of, 4036; flock of,
4064; nest of, 4190
Ducks, black, 3906

hybrid, breeding, 3836; breed-
ing on the Rainworth Water, 4159
Dunlin, 4030, 4062, 4064, 4132, 4133;
and little auk, 4200; wounded,
herring gull carrying off a, 3828;
enormous flocks of, 3912

Eagle, singular capture of, 3953

golden, at Powerscourt, 3952

Emberiza nivalis in full summer plu-
mage, 3914
Entomological Society of London,
proceedings of, 3840, 3883, 3922,
3960, 4003, 4042, 4080, 4160

'Entomologist's Annual,' conclusion

of, 3955

Eudromias morinellus, 4060

Explosion on the Regent's Canal,
4244

4190, 4252

Forkbeard, greater, off Looe, Corn-

wall, 3839

Fossils from recent deposits in the
Valley of the Thames, 3995
Fratercula arctica, 3819

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spring, 3997, 4188, 4190; summer,
arrival of in May, 4060

Migrations, autumnal, 3824; of the
willow wren, swallow, and black-
cap, 4259

Mole, curious instinct in the, 3879

Mongoose, notes on a, 4183

Kakapo, owl-parrot, or night parrot, Mouse, harvest, 3865

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Name of a bird, 4201

Nest of lesser redpoll, 4189; of wild

duck, 4190

Nesting of the blue tit, 4034; early,
of the sky lark, id.; of the garganey
and wild duck, 4036; of the tree
sparrow, 4076, 4154; of ravens in

4250

3952

Ouzel, ring, &c., at Exmouth, 3831;

on Dartmoor, 4230

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3822, 4134, 4224,

Pagophila eburnea, 3810
Parrot, night, 4260
Partridge, redlegged, 4224

with white "horseshoe,"
3834; perching in a tree, id.; and
sparrowhawk, 3869

Partridges, late breeding of, 4260

Peewit, 4029

Pelican, an escaped, killed at Faver-
sham, 4262

Penguin at the Zoo, 4262

Peregrine near Newmarket, 3830

Peregrines in the Isle of Wight, 4032;

at Torquay, 4066

Petrel, fulmar, 3814

Phalacrocorax punctatus, 4015

Phalarope, gray, 3859; in Cornwall,

4239; in Cheshire, id.

rednecked, at Salthouse,

Quadrupeds, a History of British,
including the Cetacea,' 4005
Quail, Virginian, in Northampton-
shire, 3835

water, 3881, 4036, 4064

Rat, common, piebald and malformed,
3996

water, albino, 4074
"Rat-bats," habitat of, 4075

Shag, spotted, 4015

Rooks, 4133
Ruff, 3913

Shark, Beaumaris, taken off Hastings,

4201

- fox, off Scilly, 4080
Shearwater, greater, in Bridlington
Bay, 3882; on the Cornish coast,
4261; on the coasts of Devon and
Cornwall, 4262

Manx, 3907

'Shetland, Birds of,' 4165, 4205

Shieldrake, 4065

Shieldrakes breeding in Merioneth-

shire, 4159

Shoveller, 4191 -

Shrew, water, food of, 3829

Shrews, lesser, and bank voles,

4236

Siskin and lesser redpoll, 4034
Siskins near Mansfield, 3880; breed-
ing in Ireland, 3914

Skua, arctic, in Lincolnshire, 3837

Buffon's, 3823, 3825, 3869;

near Falmouth, 4239

Richardson's, 3823; near Cleve-

don and at Instow, 4241

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