note on the singing, 288 ; on the harvest, 289, 290, 291, 292, 349
Museum, Sudbury Mechanics', 341
Mussel, polymorphous, on the rapid in- crease of in Great Britain, 253
Nests of birds, 380
Nightingale, 240
Nocture captured with sugar, 201
Notices: — 'A History of British Quadru- rupeds, including the Cetacea,' by Thomas Bell, 65 ;'My Bee-Book,' by William Charles Cotton, 22; 'The Honey-bee, its Natural His- tory,' &c, by Edward Bevan, 22 ; 'The Old Red Sandstone,' by Hugh Miller, 42; 'Figures of Molluscous Animals,' by Mrs. Gray, 53; White's Selborne, by the Rev. Leonard Je- nyns, 223; 'Description of a Gigan- tic Fossil Sloth,' by Richard Owen, F.R.S., 281
Nuthatch, note on the habits of, 213
Nyssia hispidaria and zonaria, capture of, 175
Odacantha melanura, capture of, 198
Oithona plumifera, 59 ; O. splendens, 61
Orgyia gonostigma, caterpillar of, 95
Osmia atricapilla, 265
Osprey, note on, 14, 179
Otter, note on, 344
Owl, screech, note on, 350 ; barn, habits of, 384
Parrot, grey, 104
Partridge, anecdotes of, 361 ; food of, 372
Peacock killed by a hen, 360
Pheasant, 186; anecdote of, 361; food of, 372
Phyllium, the species of, 117
Phyllopertha horticola, 271
Pigeon, domestic, settling on trees, 360
Pipit, Richard's, in Cornwall, 190 ; mea- dow, 241
Pissodes Pini near London, 271
Pleadings for the dumb, 345
Plover, golden, habits of, 362
Polia occulta, capture of, 30
Polyommatus Argiolus, on the seasons of appearance of, 199, 258
Psychopsis mimica, description of, 125
Pterodactyle tribe considered as marsupial bats, 129
Quails, occurrence of in winter, 361 ; food of, 373
Rat, on the piscivorous habits of the brown 212; on peculiarities in the manners of the water, 293, 296
Raven, habits of, 215, 227, 305, 366
Redpoll, lesser, habits of, 353
Redshank, habits of, 233
Redstart, black, occurrence of near Pen- zance, 100; near Brighton, 188,355
Redstart's nest in a singular locality, 355
Reed-warbler, 97, 222
Reed-sparrow, 303
Reptiles mentioned in Shakspeare's plays, 249, 317
Rhinobatus planus, 265
Rhinomacer attelaboides, capture of near Edinburgh, 272
Rhombus hirtus, description of, 106
Ring-dove, nest of, 222 ; food of, 370
Ring ouzel, note on, 144, 351
Ring plover, early breeding of, 190
Robin, anecdotes of, 357
Rook, note on 239, 350 ; food of, 367
Sandpiper, pectoral, 141 ; Wood, occur- rence of near Penzance, 143, 189 ; buff-breasted, occurrence of, 363; dusky, occurrence of, 363
Saturnia Pavonia-minor, and Lasiocampa Rubi, 260
Scoliopteryx libatrix, on the variation of colour in, 260, 333
Sea-eagle, capture of, 36
Selborne, notice of White's, 223
Sepsis cynipsea, 95
Sertularia, note on, 32
Shells and crabs at Circular head, Van Diemen's Land, 255
Shrew, white, 287 ; common, mortality of, 288
Shrike, red-backed, note on, 40, 352 ; grey, note on, 40
Siskin, note on the, 222
Skylark, enquiry,— Does the female ever sing? 219,238; food of, 303
Sloth, fossil, 281
Smerinthus ocellatus, and Smer. Populi, 174,175
Snails devouring insects, note on, 201
Snakes and adders, poaching propensities of, 322
Snipe breeds on Dartmoor, 362
Sparrow, tree, note on, 11; domestic, anec- dote of affection for its young, 16 ; early nests of, 76, 148 ; tree, at Til- ford, 189 ; food of, 299 ; singular noise made by, 353
Sphinx Ligustri and Smerinthus ocella- tus, 175; Convolvuli, 331
Spoonbill, occurrence of in Sussex, 225, in Cornwall, 364
