Fieldfare, note on, 238 ; on the late de- parture of, 246
Fishes, rare, occurrence of in England, 85; preservation of, 192; certain, remaining stationery in size, 322 ; on the capture of large in the Trent, 323
Fleas infesting the holes of the sand-mar- tin, 128
Formica sanguinea, 262
Fowl, domestic, anecdote of, 361
Goldfinch, food of, 300
Gold fish, having vegetable fibres arising from an ulcer, 84
Goose, wild, food of, 373
Gorgonia verrucosa, on the nature of the axis of, 276
Grebe, eared, on the occurrence of at Ox- ford, 223
Greenfinch, food of, 301
Grouse, red, 186 ; black, 187 ; habits of red, 306; cream-coloured, 361; food of, 373
Guildford, captures near, 30
Gull, herring, occurrence of at Worcester, 104 ; masked, habits of in confine- ment, 242 ; black-headed, habits of, 245 ; voracity of, 248 ; common, food of, 374
Haltica Brassicæ, note on, 340
Hampshire, captures of insects in, 262
Hares, anecdote of a combat betwixt two, 211
Hawfinch, note on, 40
Hawks, occurrence of near Sheffield, 247
Hedgehog, apology for the, 345
Heliothis armigera, capture of near Sal- ford, 260
Heliothrips Adonidum, occurrence of, 123
Heron, Cassian, occurrence of, 78 ; Squac- co, near Penzance, 143, 189
Hobby, orange-legged, occurrence of, 78; occurrence of near Norwich, 350
Hymenoptera, capture of at Hawley, 61 ; fossorial, economy of, 265
Hydroidæ, on the vitality of the sheath of, 205
Jackdaw, 185 ; food of, 367
Jay, food of, 370
Icterus, red-winged, on the occurrence of near Norwich, 317
Idiot boy catching and devouring bees, anecdote of, 127
Intelligence of animals illustrated by two pointer dogs, 35
Insects captured by flowers, 127 ; rare British, occurrence of, 125 ; cure of grease in, 175 ; note on the occur- rence of rare, at Teignmouth, 199, 335 ; on the sudden appearance and disappearance of, 336
Kestril, 223
Lantern, use of, in capturing moths by night, 178
Lark, enquiry — does the female sing? 219 food of, 303
Lebia Crux-minor, capture of, 30
Leech, horse, minute anatomy of, 17, 88, 324
Lepidoptera, descriptions of, 109, 197; captures of at Manchester, 112; near Lavenham, 172; near Cam- bridge, 257; dates of appearance near Teignmouth, 334
Linnet, food of, 300
Lithosia muscerda in Norfolk, 260
Lizard, sand, 104
Locust, occurrence of near Derby, 123
Lophopteryx Carmelita, capture of at Ep- ping, 201
Luminous appearance of the sea, 55
Magpies, jays and crows, note on, 350, 351 ; food of, 370
Mammoth, Siberian, 1
Mancipium Daplidice, 201
Marten, pine, capture of in Lincolnshire, 345
Martins, early arrival of, 145; sand, 146; house, note on, 242; nests of, in sandstone rocks, 246 ; migration of, 354
Medic egger, note on, 94
Mice, black. 348
Microscopical Society of London, 256
Migration, notes on, 103, 355
Miscus campestris, 264
Mole, anecdote of, 7
Mollusks found in Whiting bay, 86 ; car- nivorous propensity of, 257
Molytes anglicanus, note on, 271
Monstrosity in the antennas of a beetle, 29
Moose in Canada, 134, 135
Moths, capture of on grass, 64 ; capture of on blossoms of ivy, 157, 333; em- peror captured by means of a cap- tive female, 190 ; by sugaring trees &c. 201 ; names of British, 332; on sallows near Norwich, 333 ; ap- pearance of during rain , 334
Mouse, note on a white shrew, 287 ; mor- tality of the common shrew, 288;
