Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way; While meaner things whom instinct leads Are rarely known to stray. COWPER. CONTENTS. ATKINSON, W. S. Captures of Lepidoptera in Cannock BAIKIE, W. BALFOUR, M.D. Note on a supposed Thalassicola, Method of employing chloroform in BARTLETT, REV. J. PEMBERTON, M.A. Notes on captures of Coleopterous Method of obtaining Trox sabulosus, 3375; Necrodes littoralis in consi- derable numbers, Carabus arvensis BATES, HENRY WALTER Some account of the Douroucouli mon- Capture of Chærocampa Celerio near BELL, THOMAS, Sec. R. S., F.L.S. Spotted redshank at Selborne, 3330; Mode of the tree frog changing its BEVAN, EDWARD, M.D. Notes on bees and hives, 3497 Curious variety of the sedge warbler, BOND, FREDERICK, ESQ. Occurrence of the gannet in Cam- Sepia-coloured rook, 3330; Note on A list of butterflies occurring in the neighbourhood of Polebrook, North- Arrival of Hirundines in 1852, 3512 Notes on the birds, fishes, and insects, BROWN, EDWIN Name of Chesil bank, 3389; A new patented) breeding-cage, On killing Catocala Fraxini at Burton-on- BURTON, RICHARD F., Lieut. Indian Army Remarks on a critique of the 'Fal- BUXTON, E. C. Capture of Mancipium Daplidice at BUXTON, T. F., JUN. Great ash-coloured shrike in Norfolk, Note on the temper of humble bees at Montagu's harrier at Eastbourne, EVANS, DANIEL T., Esq. Experiments with venomous serpents, 3670 EVANS, JOHN American teal at Scarborough, 3472; FELL, W. Capture of the fishing frog, 3600 Another buzz from the bees, 3398, FREDERICK, GEORGE S. Black redstart in Sussex, Hoopoe in GORDON, REV. George List of fishes found in the Moray 3712 GURNEY, J. H. Note on a wild hybrid between the Nest and eggs of the black redstart, Singularly situated nest of the oxeye tit, 3503; Nest of kingfisher, 3578: Nesting of the woodcock in Staffordshire, 3579 HOGAN, ARTHUR R. Note on Diglossa mersa, 3464; Insects impaled on thorns, 3493 HUGHES, REV. E. J. R. Curious want of instinct in young ducks, 3579 HULKE, J. W. Tameness of the redstart, 3329; 3512 HUSSEY, REV. ARTHUR, M.A. Variety of the common sole, 3660 IRBY, L. H. White stork near Yarmouth, 3476; Little crake in Norfolk, 3477; Hoopoe in Norfolk, Wood sandpiper and avocet at Yarmouth, 3504; Notes on the arrival and departure of migratory birds in Norfolk, 3536; Food of the honey buzzard, 3707; Curious death of a dab-chick, or little grebe, Food of the black-headed gull, 3711 Lowe, W. H., M.D. Note on the larvæ of Plutella porrectella, 3436 MACGILLIVRAY, JOHN Excursion to Botany Bay, New South Wales, 3383; Subterranean colony of fresh-water mollusks, 3430; Visit to Teneriffe, and ascent of the Peak of Teyde, 3441; Mangrove swamps and their inhabitants, 3451 MATTHEWS, REV. A., M.A. Description of the yellow-backed whidah finch killed in Oxfordshire in September, 1851, 3534; List of the arrival and departure of the migratory birds near Weston-onthe-Green, Various birds at Westonon-the-Green, 3562 MEADE, R. H., Esq. On the method of preserving spiders, &c., 3676 MEDLYCOTT, WILLIAM C. P. Note on the genus Gobius, 3600 MUSKETT, CHARLES Insects impaled on thorns, 3563 NEWMAN, EDWARD, F.L.S., Z.S. Thrush nightingale near Dartford in Kent, 3476; Eared grebe at Yarmouth, 3477 NEWMAN, H. W. On changing the eggs of birds for those of other species, Habits and instincts of birds, 3327; A buzz from the bees, 3358; On the song of birds, 3386; The redstart, 3388; The cuckoo, 3424; A continued buzz from the bees, 3496; Further |