INDEX 



457 



Snipe, solitary, 196-7 

 Snow-bunting, 125, 252, 266 

 Snow in summer, 75, 86 

 Snowstorm of March 1886, 28-9, 



see Chap. XXXVI., 419 

 Solan goose, 238, 410 

 Solitary snipe, 196-7 

 Sol way, 78, 402, 403 

 Song-thrush, 46, 259 

 Spain, 29, 79-80, 96 (note), 99, 129, 

 189, 192-3, 221, 242, 275, 

 315-16, 336, 351-2, 392, 400 

 Sparrow-hawk, 45, 149, 184 

 Spitsbergen grouse, 187, 264 

 Spotted crake, 132, 262 



flycatcher, 84, 86, 1S0 



redshank, 386, 388, 403 

 St Abb's Head, 74, 280 

 Starling, 104, 235 



Stationary species, Chap. XII., 147 

 Stint, little, 384,. 386, 388, 389, 403 



Temminck's, 386, 403 

 Stockdove, 31, 46, 50, 51, 276 • 

 Stonechat, 53, 150, 266 

 Summer on the coast, 187, 383 



on the fells, Chap. VII., 88 

 Swallow, 13, 37, 85, 129 

 Swans, wild, 294, 420, 427, 430-1 

 Sweden, 276 



Taimyr peninsula, 389, 391, 405 

 Tawny owl (see Owls), 43, 149, 183 

 Teal, 30, 50, 70, 184, 220, 263, 314 

 Telegraph wires, destructiveness 



of, 236 

 Tern, no, 387 

 Thrush, song-, 46, 259 

 Titlark, 30, 67, 235 

 Titmice, 135, 148, 150, 259 

 Tree-creeper, 134-5, 148, 259 

 Tree-pipit, 84, 85, 128 



Trout, 56, 114, 254, 255 



fishing, 56, 65 et seq., 66 et seq. 

 Tufted duck, 89, 92, 220, 262, 363 

 Turnstone, 178, 386 

 Turtle-dove, 277 

 Twite, 52, 72, 100-1 



U 

 Unobserved visitants, 151 



V 



Variations, in game-birds, 195 

 Velvet scoter, 225, 378 

 "Vermin," 164, 172 

 "Vole-plague," 139 



W 



Waders, Chap, xxxm., 382, and 

 Chap, xxxiv., 395 



aggregations of, 301, 414 

 Wagtail, grey, 29, 30-1, 49, 50, 67, 

 85, 188 



pied, 29, 49, 50, 67, 188 



white, 52, 189 



yellow, 31 

 Waterhen, 107-8, 149, 261 

 Water-ouzel, see Dipper 

 Water-rail, 137, 261 

 Weather, forecasts in autumn, on 



the fells, 258, 259, 260 

 Weather, hard, see Hard weather 



mild, on the fells, 259 



wildfowling in, Chap. XXXV., 

 411, Chap, xxxix., 445 

 Wheatear, 33, 84, 1 79 

 Weazel, 180 



Whimbrel, 102, no, 181-2, 384 

 Whinchat, 53, 84, 100 

 White-fronted goose, 216, 351 



lesser, 351 et seq. 



