INDEX. 



629 



Scene in an Indian's hut, 449 



Scent, acuteness of, in quadrupeds, 244 



Schomburgk, Sir R., 48 



School, Waterton sent to, 89 



Scotchman sucked by vampire, 235 



Scott, Father, 45 



Screamer, horned, 34 



Screeching of owls, 275 



Serpent charmers, 429 



Serpents of Guiana, 434 



Service tree frequented by stormcock, 



Seychelles Islands, 41 



Shag, the, 408 



Sheep, curious horn on, 615 



Sheldrake attacked by weasel, 230 



Shepherd, Rev. Joseph, a correct dis- 

 ciplinarian, 9 



Shepherds, Spanish, 198 



Shipwreck, 94 



Shoemaker, story of, 106 



Shoes, Waterton's gift of his, 135 



Shooting of the rooks, 307 



Sibson, Dr, 210 



Sicily, 88 



Simpson, James, 334 



Sisters-in-law, I, 2 



Sister, Waterton's, 8 



Size of cayman, 423 



Skye-terrier, story about, 208 



Sleep, Waterton's last, 131 



Sloth, habits of, 147, 174, 468 



Smell of cormorant's nest, 465 



Snails boiled, 103 



Snakes, 427 



Snottle berries, 453 



Snowdrops, 503 



Soaring of birds of prey, 248 



Some account of the writer of the fol- 

 lowing essays by himself, 2 



Song, Low Thompson's, 14 

 ... of chaffinch, 338 

 ... of dying swan, 405 



Songs of birds unexplained, 331 



Southey, snail combats told of by, 12 



Sparrow-hawk, 267 



... and starlings, 330 



Sparrow, solitary, 304 



Speaton, 407 



Species of fox, 214 



Spider's web used by chaffinch and 

 humming-bird, 337 



Spring-gun, fox killed by, 224 



Squirrel, its habits, 172 



Stabroek, 32 



Starling's nest robbed by weasel, 232 



Starling, story of the, 166 



Starling, the, 327, 407, 614 



Steadman, Captain, 482 



Sterne, notes on, 611 



Sterne's starling, 327 



Stoats, family of, 204 



Stob, Andrew Mill's, its healing virtues 



and history, 16 

 Stockeld Park, 547 

 Stonyhurst, fox at, 212 



birds' nesting adventures 

 at, 19 



Waterton goes to, 18 



Waterton leaves, 21 

 Storey, Mr, fate of one of his wigs, n 



his frugality, 14 



his inopportune appearance 



and its result, 10 



Storey, Rev. A., Waterton's school- 

 master, 9 



Storks in Holland, 70 

 Stormcock, the, 331, 568 

 Story of tame fox, 480 



Waterton's father, 386 

 Strickland, Mr Arthur, 127, 238 

 Stuart, Charley, 7, 118 

 Stuffing, directions for, 595 



letters on, 598 

 Style, Waterton's, 134 

 Subscriptions, 135 

 Superstitions as to dumb animals, 278 



of savages, 50 

 SurteeB, Mr F. R., 444 

 Swainson, 130, 421, 552, 558, 568 

 notice of Audubon, 355 

 Swamp for plovers, 120 

 Swans, wild, 403 

 Swan, the domestic, 401 

 Swift, 173 



Swifts, mode of catching, 86 

 Swinburnes of Capheaton, 4 

 Swine, wild of Guiana, 477 

 Sycamore, 507 x 

 Sycamores on the island, 509 

 Sydney Smith's review, 58 

 Sylvester, 121 



TAILOR, the village, 14 

 Tailors, story of festive, 592 

 Tapir, story about, 148 



