culture, and the benefits also derived from them, 296, 366 ; capture and appearance of, in Derbyshire, 311 ; migration of, 313 ; bills of, 362 ; nests of, 380
Bittern, little, 225
Blackbird, anecdote of, 352 ; food of, 366
Blackcap in January, 76, 356 ; pugnaci- ous disposition of, 356
Blighted trees, 272, 337, 338
Boar fish at Brighton, occurrence of, 191 ; note on, 192
Bohemian chatterer near Teignmouth, 188
Boxes, entomological collecting, 177
Brambling near Farnham, 188 ; food of, 299
Bream, sea, Couch's, described, 81
Broscus cephalotes, 271
Bunting, food of, 301 ; lark, on the occur- rence of near Milnthorpe, 316, 352; snow, 303, 352
Bustard, occurrence of near the Lizard point, 144
Butterfly, peacock, in December, 64
Butterflies occurring near Dover, 113; re- markable abundance of hybernat- ing, 176
Buzzard, honey, changes of plumage, 375
Calocampa vetusta, capture of at Birch- wood, 334
Carabus, on the British species of, 338
Cat, reasoning power in, 74
Caterpillar, walking branch, note on, 335
Catocala Fraxini, capture of, 30
Cayman, anecdote of, 149 ; note on, 150
Centipede, electric, 160
Ceratopaeha octogesima, occurrence of at Epping, 201
Cerura vinula, 332
Chatterer, Bohemian, occurrence of near Teignmouth, 188
Chaffinch, food of, 297
Chrysomela Banksii, 271
Cicindela campestris, 271
Cionus, on the species of, and Sphaerula Lythri, 271
Cis Boleti, larva of, 116
Claviger foveolatus, note on the capture of, 200, 266
Coleoptera frequenting damp places, 114 ; occurring at Launcestou, 115; oc- curring near Cambridge, 116; dur- ing a flood, 116,177; in Lincoln- shire, 269 ; near Edinburgh, 340
Colias Hyale, capture of, 30, 259, 260, 331 ; Philodice, note on, 175; Elec- tra or Edusa, occurrence of, 258, 330, 331 ; periodical occurrence of, 176
Cœlioxys umbrina, 63
Couch's sea bream, description of, 81
Crickets, note on, 340
Critical papers, enquiry respecting the ad- mission of, 156
Cross-bill, 39; white-winged, 142, 221 ; breeding in the Holt forest, 189
Crow, carrion, habits of, 304 ; defence of, 367 ; hooded, breeding in Norfolk, 315 ; habits of, 366; Royston, 350
Cuckoo, anecdote of a young, in a reed- warbler's nest, 352
Cucullia Asteris, 333
Curculionidæ near Cambridge, capture of, 174
Curlew, note on the pigmy, and dunlin, 316; stone, eggs of, 363
Cyclopsina Arietis,56; Rivillei, 58; Slab- beri, 59
Cythere inopinata, 195
Dabchick, habits of, 364
Daphnia brachiata, 196
Deer, red, anecdote of, 349
Deilephila Galii, capture of, 31
Description of Erycina Margaretta, 28 ; of Cyclopsina Arietis, 56; of C: Ri- villei, 58 ; of C. Slabberi, 59; of Oithona plumifera, 59 ; of O. splen- dens, 61 ; of Ccelioxys umbrina, 63 ; of Couch's sea bream, 81 ; of Mul- ler's top-knot, 106 ; of Leptocircus Curiusand L.Meges, 111 ; of seve- ral species of the genus Phyllium, 117; of Psychopsis mimica, 125 ; of the British wasps, 161 ; of Cy there inopinata, 195; of Daphnia brachi- ata, 196; of Thymara Zaida, 197; of a new British bee, 261 .
Diver, northern, breeds in Shetland, 365
Dog, pointer, anecdote of, 35
Dottrell, habits of, 363
Dreissena polymorpha, on the multiplica- tion of, 255
Duck, wild, food of, 374
Dytiscus punctulatus, note on the habits of, 200
Eagle, sea, capture of, 36 ; golden, 178
Echinodermata occurring in Northumber- land, 275
Eel, note on the voracity of the, 108, 323
Elampus Panzeri, 264
Enquiry respecting a stridulant insect, 31
Entomostraca, British, descriptions of, 55, 193
Ephemeræ, notes on, 272
Epipone laevipes, 264
Erycina Margaretta, description of, 28
