GENERAL INDEX. 



663 



built a nest, late in Nov. 1833, and laid eggs 

 in it, 157; instances of tlie robin in white 

 plumage noted, 598. 



Rock-birds, see Birds. 



Rodent animals : an instance of unusual length, 

 ening in the cutting teeth of a squirrel, 142. 



Rook : a description of the habits of the rook, 

 100 ; facts on the habits of the rook, 2W ; 

 facts in proof that the rook is of choice, and 

 not of necessity, partly granivorous, 459; in- 

 stances of the rook's feeding on walnuts, 148, 

 149 ; companies of rooks delight to assemble 

 and build near human residences, 149; in- 

 stances of enmity by the rook and the magpie 

 to the kestrel hawk, 105. 149 ; the rook is very 

 rare in Guernsey and Jersey, and never builds 

 there, 462 ; instances of the rook in white 

 plumage, 594, 595. 



S^lix, mentions of species of, in incidental re- 

 lation to the ravages of the caterpillar of the 



' Nematus ckprea, 422. and notes * and f- 



Salmon fish, facts and considerations on the 

 natural history and political impropriation of 

 the, 202; considerations in argument that 

 the salmon ascends rivers for other purposes 

 besides propagation, 520 ; reasons for deem- 

 ing the salmon par but a state of the common 

 salmon, 521. 



Salt, the, of the Mountain of Gern, at Cardona, 

 in Catalonia, Spain, some account of, 640. 



Saurian animals, fossil, a notice of Mn Haw- 

 kins's Memoir on, 476 ; the American great 

 sea serpent conjectured to be a living saurian 

 reptile, 246, 



Scolopendra el^ctrica, a beetle (? Sflpha) suf- 

 fused with luminous matter seen near a, 252. 



Sc6lytus destrdctor Olivier, facts on the habits 

 of, 525 ; Sc61ytus se'neus, a figure of, 378. 



Sea : a note on the luminousness of the sea, i 

 581. ! 



Seal, a description of a, taken at Padstow, Corn- 

 wall, and supposed to be of the species Phbca ! 

 barb^ta, 508. 1 



Sedge-bird, instances of the imitative powers of 1 

 the, 486. 



ifempervivum arbbreum L., illustrations, by 

 figures and remarks, of the dissimilar appear. | 

 ances presented by the dead stem of, in the 

 successive stages of its decay, 32. 



Serpent : notice of a recent appearance of the 

 American great sea serpent, 246; this animal 

 conjectured to be a living saurian, 246. 



St^rpula tubularia Montagu, and a ? variety of, 

 a figure and description of each, 126 ; the sy- 

 nonymes and distinctions of the known Bri- 

 tish species of St^rpula, 420. 



Shakspeare a naturalist, remarks and citations 

 in proof of, 309 ; an instance of the exquisite 

 accuracy and exactness with which Shak- 

 speare observed natun-il objects, 593. 



Shannon, bones have been found in the soils of 

 the bed of the ; these soils noticed, 5.j9. 



Sheep, zoological recollections on the, 395. 



Shells, a description of some nondescript and 

 rare British species of, 350 ; a list of the more 

 rare species of shells collected at Aberdovey, 

 Merionethshire, 159 ; a list of some land and 

 freshwater species of shells which have been 

 found in the neighbourhood of Henley on 

 Thames, 494 ; a list of species of British land 

 and freshwater shells collected in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rugby, Warwickshire, 160; a 

 list of species of land and freshwater shells 

 collected at Witham, Essex, 535-, a notice of 

 the fossil species of shells found in the fresh- 

 water formation at Copford, near Colchester, 

 Essex, 436 ; the names of certain fossil shells 

 found in lacustrine formations near Ipswich, 

 Suffolk, 27.'); a species of Gryphee'a, and one 

 of Belenmites, are objects of superstition with 

 the boys of Cambrideeshire, 566. 



Shrew, the field, a notice of a superstition con. 

 nected with, 564 ; shrew, the water, a habitat 

 of, 19. 



? Sflpha a species of, seen suffused with lumin- 

 ous matter, near a Scolopendra electrica, 252. 



Sisymbrium polycerktium L. inhabits Bury St. 

 Edmunds, Suffolk, 273, 



Sky, facts and arguments on the causes of an 

 unusual appearance of the, 450. 



Song of birds, see Birds. 



Spain, incidents which befell a person while tra- 



■ veiling in, to collect natural objects in, 643. 



Sparrow, the tree, a description of the song of, 

 488 ; several individuals of this species were 

 shot, in the winter of 1833, at Lexden, Essex, 

 518. 



Spiders : an illustration of the structure of some 

 of the organs of a spider, deemed the type of 

 a new genus, and proposed to be called Tr!. 

 chopus libr^tus, 10 ; the names applied, by Mr, 

 Blackwall, to several species which he has 

 discovered and described, 13; directions for 

 preserving the forms of the bodies of killed 

 spiders, 572 ; a note on a spider infested with 

 insects (? A'cslvi), 467; Arknea. labyrinthica in 

 a notable locality, 537. 



Spittle, human, a notice of superstitions con- 

 nected with, 567. 



Sp6ngia .'subferia Montagu, a figure and de- 

 scription of, 491. 



Squirrel, an instance of unusual lengthening in 

 the cutting teeth of the common, 142 ; a com- 

 mon squirrel, wild, in a party-coloured coat, 

 has been seen, 142. 



Starlings consort with rooks, 106. 183. 



Stickleback, facts on the habits of two species 

 of, 599. 



Stoat, facts and considerations on the change of 

 colour in the fur of the, 504 ; an opinion that 

 the white-furred individuals of the common 

 stoat are permanently and constitutionally 

 white-furred, 591 ; the stoat, in its white 

 garb, is not frequently seen near Stamford,591. 



Strata, see Switzerland. 



Sugar cane, a notice of the ravages of the herb- 

 age of the, by D^lphax saccharivora West- 

 wood, 496. 



Swallows. See Hirundinidae and Martins. 



Swift, facts in proof that the, builds its own 

 nest, particulars on its nest and eggs, 462 ; the 

 swift missed from the neighbourhood of Al- 

 lesley, as early, in 1834, as July 25., 465. 



Switzerland, facts and considerations on the 

 conditions of the strata of Mont Blanc, and 

 other granitic rocks, in, 644 ; instances of a 

 contorted condition of the strata in certain 

 specified localities in, 648, 



Sycamore, the sap of the, is sweet, 274. 



Sylvia rtifa Latham, deemed identical with the 

 S. \h(\ua.TiHerbert, which is known to be iden- 

 tical with the S. hippoliis of British authors, 

 but di.<tinct from the S. hippolkis of Temminck 

 and Bechstein, 15. 



S^rphidae, information on the larvae of the, 184. 



Teal, the green-winged, of Britain, and the 

 green-winged of America, contradistinguish- 

 ed, 7. 



Temperature : data towards determining the 

 decrease of temperature in connection with 

 elevation above the sea level, in Britain, 

 443. 539. 



Tenthrfedo amertnae L. very rarely occurs in 

 Britain, or not at all, 266. 



Tfergipes pulcher Johnston, a figure and descrip- 

 tion of, 490. 



Testacdllus, figures, information on the habits, 

 characteristics, and habitats, of species of, 224, 



Thistle, the milky, a notice of a superstition 

 on, 567. 



riilaspi, characters of Decandolle's sections of 

 the genus, 65. 



rhlaspideffi, characters of the genera and sec- 

 tions in the tribe, 65. 



Throstles havebuilt their nests, when pressed by 

 necessity, in a surprisingly short space of time, 

 598 ; instances of hybrid birds produced be- 

 tween the throstle and the blackbird, in a 

 state of nature, 598. 



Thrush : remarks on the British species of 

 thrush, 75. 241 ; date of the redwing's appear- 

 ance, 75 ; see also Redwing : the small 



