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NEWTON, ALFRED

British species of guillemot, 3425; Cedar bird in England, 3506; Note on the proper name of the Sylvia turdoides, 3511; On the habits of the kiwi-kiwi in confinement, 3605; Some account of a petrel killed at Southacre, Norfolk, with a description and synonymy, 3691; Nesting of the siskin in confinement, 3707 NEWTON, EDWARD

Harlequin duck in Banffshire, 3331 NORMAN, A. M.

Great snipe at Botley, 3330; Emmelesia Blomeri taken at Goblin Coombe, Somersetshire, 3334 NORMAN, G., Esq.

Notes respecting Acherontia Atropos, 3716

PIM, BEDFORD, LIEUT. R.N.

Remarks on the fauna of Western Eskimaux-land, 3377 PLANT, JOHN, ESQ.

Hybrid grouse, 3710 Powys, T. L.

Note on the kite and buzzard trapped at Blenheim, 3388; Black redstart near Oxford, Ring dotterel near Oxford, 3476; Glossy ibis in Ireland, 3477; The shore lark breeding in Devonshire, 3707; Bluethroated warbler in South Devon, 3709; Pratincole in Devonshire, 3710

PRIDEAUX, CHARLES

Rare birds near Kingsbridge, 3474 REID, HUGH

Honey buzzard with a white head and neck, 3329; Inquiry respecting a species of sandpiper, 3330 RODD, EDWARD HEARLE

Fire-crested Regulus near Penzance, 3388, 3453; Note on the chiffchaff, Kentish plover and continental white wagtail near Penzance, Lesser tern near Mount's Bay, 3453; Wood sandpiper at the Land's End, 3454: Montagu's harrier at Scilly, Note on the destruction of eggs by Montagu's harrier, 3475; Gull-billed tern and Iceland gull at Scilly, 3536

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On obtaining Coleoptera, &c., from moss during the spring months, 3462; Bembidium flavipes at Renfrew, 3464; Probable mode of detecting the larva of Polyommatus Artaxerxes, &c., 3624; Voracious propensity of the large dragon-fly, 3628

SEEMANN, BERTHOLD

Notes on the zoology of the Isthmus of Panama, 3313

SHEPPARD, AUGUSTUS F.

Halias clorana at Fulham, 3335 SIMKISS, REV. THOMAS M.

Captures of Lepidoptera at Sutton Park, Warwickshire, 3334 SMITH, REV. ALFRED CHARLES, M.A. Singular habit of a cat, 3452; A pat

tern for ornithologists, 3473; Remarkable instinct of a pony, 3505; Instance of a blackbird turning white from fright, 3576; Supposed capture in England of the American black-bellied darter, 3601; Supplemental note on the blackbellied darter, 3654; Some further account of the blackbird said to have become white through fright,

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goat-sucker, 3648; Curious localities for the nest of the spotted flycatcher, 3657; Note on the Egyptian cobra, 3658 THOMPSON, THOMAS

Occurrence of Deilephila Celerio at
Welton, 3716

THOMPSON, WILLIAM

The variegated sole, 3375 TURNER, REV. WILLIAM, M.A.

Curious propensity of a toad, 3389 WALKER, FRANCIS, F.L.S.

Notes on the distribution of insects in geographical regions, 3713 WALLACE, A. R.

Natural-History collectors in foreign countries, 3641

WALCOTT, W. H. L.

Method of using laurel-leaves in killing insects, 3464

WARINGTON, ROBERT, F.C.S.

Observations on the Natural History of the water-snail and fish, kept in

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

Acanthus vulgaris, 3488

Acherontia Atropos, notes respecting, 3716

Acipenser Sturio, 3487

Alauda alpestris, 3707

Aleucis pictaria, note on, 3464

Alopias Vulpes, 3487

Alosa finta, 3482

Ammocœtes branchialis, 3488

Ammodytes Lancea, 3487

Tobianus, 3487

Anarrhichas Lupus, 3460

Anecdote of rats, 3473; of a spider, 3492; of the house martin, 3512; of flycatchers, 3577; of hunting spider, 3600

Anguilla acutirostris, 3486

Aötes trivirgatus, 3324

Aphis, pupa of an insect bearing resem

blance to, 3407

Arctia Caja, varieties of, 3563

Arctomys Parri, 3379

Artist and butterflies, 3396

Aspidophorus Europæus, 3458
Avocet at Yarmouth, 3504

Bates, H. W., extracts from correspon-
dence of, 3321, 3352, 3449
Bear, polar, 3377; brown, 3377
Beaver, 3379

Bees, beautiful discovery in the manage

ment of, 3342; a buzz from, 3358; another buzz from, 3398; humble, on killing, 3434; a continued buzz from, 3496; and hives, notes on, 3497; further continuation of the buzz, 3520 ; humble, 3520; welcoming a new queen, 3627; humble, at a certain season of the year, 3627 Belone vulgaris, 3461 Bembidium flavipes at Renfrew, 3464 Bib or pout, 3484

Birds, habits and instincts of, 3327; song

of, 3386; rare, near Kingsbridge,
3474; rare, near Norwich, 3474; va-
rious, at Ross, 3503; migratory, arri-
val and departure of, in Norfolk,
3536;
near Weston-on-the-Green,
3562; various, at Weston-on-the-

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Echinorhinus spinosus, 3488

Eel, sharp-nosed, 3486; sand, 3487; broad-nosed, variety of, 3599

Eels, revival of, after being partially frozen, 3333

Eggs of birds, on changing for those of other species, 3327; of Epyornis, 3400; of Apteryx, 3401; of birds, destruction of by Montagu's harrier, 3475; of black redstart, 3503 Emmelesia Blomeri at Goblin Coombe, Somersetshire, 3334

Entomological localities, 3343, 3430, 3517, 3584, 3687

Entomological Society, proceedings of,

3336, 3364, 3403, 3437, 3466, 3498, 3522, 3564, 3588, 3628, 3661, 3717 Ermine, 3378

Esox Lucius, 3461

Excursion to Botany Bay, New South Wales, 3383

Experiments with venomous serpents, 3670 Falconry, Indian, note on, 3648

Falconry in the valley of the Indus, notice of, 3569; remarks on the critique,3646 Father lasher, 3458

Fauna of Western Eskimaux-land, remarks on. 3377

Felis rufa, 3379

Ferrets, note on the habits of, 3452 Finch, yellow-backed Whidah, in Oxfordshire, 3534

Fish-spawn taken to Hobart Town, 3504 Fishes, found in Moray Firth, and in the fresh waters of the province of Moray, 3454, 3480; note on, 3599; rare, at Redcar, 3504; of the River Dodder, 3526; observed near St. Margaret's Bay, Kent, 3612

Fishes with a bony skeleton, 3457; with a
cartilaginous skeleton, 3487
Fishing frog, 3332, 3461, 3600
Flounder, 3485

Flycatcher, spotted, curions localities for the nest of, 3657

Flycatchers, anecdote of, 3577
Frog, tree, changing its skin, 3563
Forest, a night in, 3515

Fox, 3378; white, 3378

Freeman, John, 'Life of the Rev. William Kirby,' 3537

Fringilla spinus, 3707, 3708

Gannet in Cambridgeshire, 3712
Gar fish, 3461

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unipunctatus, 3460

Goby, freckled or spotted, 3460; onespotted, 3460

Goose, Egyptian, 3712

'Great Artists and Great Anatomists,' notice of, 3533

Grebe, eared, at Yarmouth, 3477
Grebe, little, 3711

Greenfinch, double nest of, 3577

Greenfinch and linnet, hybrid between, 3388

Greenwich Natural History Society, 3502 Grous, black, in Sussex, 3330; near Lynn, 3476; hybrid, 3710

Guenée, M. A. 'Histoire Naturelle des Insectes,' 3532

Guillemot, British species of, 3425; ringed, specific distinctness of, 3477

Gull, Ross's rosy at Pevensey, 3388; Iceland, at Scilly, 3536

Gunnel, spotted, 3460

Gurnard, red, 3457; sapphirine, 3458; gray, 3458

Haddock, 3483; Norway, 3458

Hair-tail, silvery,

Hake, 3485

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Hyperoodon bidens, 3456
Hystrix cristatus, 3707

Ibis, glossy, in Ireland, 3477

Imperial Academy, two hundredth anniversary of, 3568

Insects, Coleopterous, notes on captures of, 3354; method of employing chloroform in killing, 3434; method of using laurel-leaves in killing, 3464; impaled on thorns, 3493, 3563; Lepidopterous, notes on Mr. Stephens' catalogue of, in the British Museum, 3580; observed near St. Margaret's Bay, Kent, 3613; geographical distribution of, 3713

Instinct of a pony, 3505
Kingfisher, nest of, 3578

Kite & buzzard trapped at Blenheim, 3388
Kiwi-kiwi, habits of, with a mention of
Ocydromus, 3409; habits of in con-
finement, 3605

Knox, R., Great Artists and Great Anatomists,' 3533

Labrus Bergylta, 3461

Lacinularia socialis, a contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the Rotifera, 3405

Lamna Cornubica, 3487, 3712
Lampern, 3488

Lamprey, 3488

Lampris guttatus, 3459

Larvæ of Plutella porrectella, 3436; of Micro-Lepidoptera, on rearing, 3494; of Polyommatus Artaxerxes, &c., probable mode of detecting, 3624 Launce, sand, 3487

Lepidogaster bimaculatus, 3486 Lepidoptera, captures of, in the New Forest, Hampshire, 3334; at Sutton Park, Warwickshire, 3334; search for pupa, at the roots of trees, 3334; captures of, in Cannock Chase, &c., 3396; minute, new method of capturing and killing, 3433; captures of, in the neighbourhood of Putney, Surrey, 3435; taken at Lower Guiting, on the Cotswolds, 3494; captures of, near Stowmarket, 3625

Ledipopterous insects in the British Museum, 3580

Leptocephalus Morrisii, 3487
Lepus glacialis, 3379

Leuciscus Phoxinus, 3461

'Life of the Rev. William Kirby,' notice of, 3537

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