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INDEX. 



Shrimp, brine, 73. 

 Siberia, scene in, 43. 

 Silver-thaw, 3. 

 Snake-bird, 214. 

 Snow, beauty of, 2 — life in. 66. 

 Snow f jeld, 51. 

 Snow-storm, 2. 

 Sounds of night, 28. 

 Spring, 4 — in Canada, 7. 

 Sprites, 225. 

 Stag, Siberian, 43. 

 Stcntor, 161. 

 Storks, 181. 

 Summer, Indian, 11. 

 Sunset in the Oural, 22 — in the Al- 

 taian, 23. 



Tameness of animals, 195. 

 Termites, 106. 

 Tliackwray, death of, 249. 

 Timber, destroyers of, 105, 109. 

 Tree-fi-ogs, voices of, 28, 29. 

 Trees, enormous, 135 — mammoth, 



141. 

 Tropical scenery, 179. 

 Tsetse, 110. 



Unearthltness, 225. 

 Unicorn, traditions of, 285 — Recent 

 reports of, 286. 



Urania, 177. 

 Urus, Scottish, 201. 



Venezuela, morning in, 18. 

 Volcano, life in, 71. 

 Victona regia, 190. 



Water, a drop of, 158. 

 Water-fowl, lines to, 200— at night, 



234. 

 Water-insects, 15, 

 Water-lily, royal, 190. 

 Water-shrew, 215. 

 Whale-fishing, perils of, 259. 

 Whale of Havre, 365 — Sowerby's, 



366 — Rhinoceros, 366 — Gosse's, 



367. 

 Whale, sperm, 48, 116. 

 Whales, size of, 115 — by night, 223. 

 Whetsaw, voice of, 226. 

 White-ants, 106. 



Winter, charms of, 1 — Noon in, 20. 

 Wolves, prairie, 237 — European, 241 



— voracity of, 242 — night-attack 



of, 243. 



Yew, large, 137. 



Zamang, 136. 

 Zimb, 110. 



