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CONTENTS.
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Snipe, Jack, early appearance of, 435

Sparrowhawk, nesting habits of, 346, 436

Sparrowhawks flocking, 28

Sphæriidæ, 161

Sphærium corneum, 161

„ lacustre, id.

,, rivicola, id.

Spoonbill in Dorsetshire, 309

Stanley, Henry M., 'Through the Dark Continent' (review), 307

Starlings destroying Larks' eggs, 451

„ Rose-coloured, 16

Stercorarius parasiticus, 154

,, pomatorhinus, id.

Stonechat, nesting habits of, 294

Strickland, H. E., M.A., F.R.S., 'Rules for Zoological Nomen- clature' (review), 272

Succinea elegans, 87

„ putris, id.

Sunfish on the coast of Devon, 351

Swallow, late, 45

Swannery at Abbotsbury, 208

Swift, Pallid, egg of, 25

Swordfish in Mount's Bay, 351 ; on the coast of Devon, id.

Tape-fish, Morris's, at Pennan, Aber- deenshire, 60

Terns in the Estuary of the Moy, 26

Thrush, Song, incubating on the ground, 350

'Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society' (re- view), 464

Truffles, 226

Turdus iliacus, 153

„ pilaris, id.

Turtles, Soft-shelled, some pecu- liarities in the anatomy of, 401

Turtur auritus, 154

Unio pictorum, 163, 181

„ tumidus, 163

Unionidæ, 163

Univalves, 85, 163

Valvata cristata, 165 „ piscinalis, 164

Valvatidse, 164

Vanellus cristatus, 154

Variety of the Mole, 22, 128 ; of the Weasel, 434

Vertigo antivertigo, 123

,, edentula, id.

„ pygmaea, id.

Vitrina pellucida, 87

Waders, autumnal migration of, 43

Wagtail, Grey, gregarious at roosting time, 390

Pied, 28

Warbler, Blue-throated, 44

Waterhen, pugnacity of, 347

Weasel carrying its young, 252; variety, 434 ; stealing eggs, 451 Whale, Atlantic Right, 4

„ Beaked, killed in the Menai Strait, 13

„ Broad-fronted Beaked, 7

„ Caing, 10

,, Common Beaked, 7

„ Cuvier's, id.

„ Driving, 10

„ Greenland Right, 4

,, Humpbacked, id.

„ Pilot, 10

„ Sowerby's, 8

,, Sperm, 6

„ Two-toothed, 15

„ White, 8; at the Westminster Aquarium, 232

'Whale, the White' (review), 270

Whales, Toothed, 3

„ Whalebone, id.

Wheatear, nesting habits, 294

Whinchat, nesting habits, id.

Whyte-Melville, G.J., 'Riding Re- collections' (review), 310

Wildfowl breeding in Norfolk, 42

Wonfor, Mr. T. W., death of, 455

Woodcock, 45 ; double migration of, 389

Woodpeckers, notes from the New Forest on, 345

Wren, Willow, nesting at a height from the ground, 351

„ Wood, in Ireland, 348

Wryneck, albino specimen, 29; in Perthshire, 437