INDEX 



305 





Sea- kings, traditional burial of, 

 at Kingly Vale, 227 



Sea - poppy, wheatears nesting 

 among, 93 



Sea- weed, horses eating, 18 



Sense-organs, unexplained, in 

 insects, 70 



Shag, disappearance of, from 

 Sussex, 81 



Sheep, growth of plants affected 

 by, 53, 57 ; fatality among, 

 from snake-bite, 96 



Sheep-dog, its refusal to help a 

 girl shepherd, 150, 151 ; its dis- 

 position, 161 



Shepherd, a naturalist, 79 ; for- 

 mer life on the downs, 82; 

 curious experiences of a, 86; 

 his picturesqueness, 103; his 

 Saxon characteristics, 105 ; his 

 good blood and good looks, 

 122 ; his contentment, 123 ; his 

 wheatear harvest, 128; girl 

 acting as, 149 



Shepherd-boy, on the downs, 46 ; 

 and snake, 101 



Shopwyke House, 288 



Shore birds, notes of, 143, 206 



Shrew, the common, on the 

 downs, 76 



Shrike, red-backed, 92 ; hated by 

 the wheatear, 94 



1 Sickly ' land, 40 



Sight and touch, connection be- 

 tween, 26 



Signs, public-house, at Chi- 

 chester, 257 



Silence of the hills, 152 



Singing in Sussex, 146 ; primi- 

 tive, 149 ; of boy and missel- 

 thrush, 281 



Skylark, snake and, 101 ; on the 

 downs, 162 ; distance at which 

 song of, is audible, 163 ; char- 

 acter of its song, 164 



Sleep in insects, nature of, 66 

 Slow- worm in a churchyard, 194 

 Smells, peculiar, of Chichester, 



256, 279 

 Snails, their adder-like colouring, 



60 

 Snake, its power over the frog, 



94 ; smooth, on the South 



Downs, 96 ; ring, rarity of, 



101 ; a large specimen, 102 

 "Snuff-box, the devil's," 210 

 Songsters of the hills, 153 

 Sound, travelling power of, in hill 



air, 149, 157, 158, 161, 163 

 Sounds, description of, in terms 



of sight, 154 ; of the telegraph 



wires, 197 

 South Downs, definition of its 



range, 21 ; former bird-life on 



the, 81, 82 



South Harting, its attractive- 

 ness, 294 ; love of a native for, 



295 

 Sparrow-hawk, his inability to 



grasp a telegraph wire, 250; 



attack by missel-thrush on, 



251 

 Spoonbills, former nesting of, at 



West Dean, 84 

 Starlings, in wheatear traps, 136 ; 



swifts' breeding-places usurped 



by, 200 

 Statuary, suggestion for a group 



of, 37 

 Stoats, their presence on the 



downs, 76 ; trapped wheatears 



eaten by, 136 

 Stonechat, breeding on the 



downs, 91 ; character of its 



song, 154, 196 

 Stone-curlew, disappearance of, 



from Sussex, 81, 85 

 Story of my Heart, Jefferies', 14 

 Stupidity in downland, 282 

 Summer, the joy of, 169 

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