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Rh 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