622 



REPTILES AND BIRDS. 



Sandpipers, Common, 307. 

 Green, 307. 



,, Greenshank, 306. 



,, Redshank, 306. 



Wood, 307. 

 Sappho Comet, 467. 

 Sarcorhamphi, 600. 

 Scansores, or Climbers, 191, 431. 

 Scissors-bill, 281. 

 Scissors-bills, 281. 



Black, The, or Cutwater, 



282. 

 Scoter, 236. 



Black, 236. 



,, Great-billed, or Surf Duck, 239. 

 Screamer, Crested, 304. 

 ,, Horned, 303. 

 Secretary Bird, 6li. 

 Seps tridactylus, 95. 

 Serpent- Eaters, oil. 

 Shaft, 171. 



Shag, The, or Green Cormorant, 269. 

 Shear- Waters, 288. 

 Shieldrake, The, 229. 

 The, 230. 



Shoveller, The, 228. 

 The, 228. 



Shrike, Great Grey, 541. 

 ,, Piping Crow, 542. 

 ,, Red-backed, 542. 

 Shrikes, 539. 



Pied Crow, 543. 

 ,, Piping Crow, 543. 

 Siflits, 474. 

 Siskin, 490. 



The, 489. 

 Skua, The, 285. 

 Buffon's, 287. 

 ,, Common, 287. 

 Parasite, 287. 

 ,, Pomerine, 287. 

 Skylark, 503. 

 Smew, The, 241. 

 Smew, 242. 

 Snakes, 38. 



Black, 45. 

 Blind, 42. 

 Burrowing, 39. 

 Carpet, 54, 64. 

 ,, Copperhead, 76. 

 ,, Coral, 42. 

 Desert, 47- 



Snakes, Diamond, 54. 



Fresh-water, 39. 

 Guinea Rock, 57. 

 Green and Yellow, 47. 

 Ground, 39. 

 Innocuous, 41. 

 Natal Rock, 55. 

 Rat, 45- 

 Rattle, 76, 77. 

 Ringed, 45. 

 Ringed, 46. 

 Rock, 55. 



,, Guinea, 56. 



Natal, 55, 56. 



Royal, 55. 

 Sea, 37, 40, 63. 

 Shield-tail, 43. 

 Tree, 39. 

 Vipenne, 48. 



Snipe, 305, 318. 



Common, 319. 

 318. 



Great, 318, 319. 



Jack, 319. 



Jack, 318, 319. 



Wilson's, 320. 

 So iable or RepiMican Birds, Nests of. 



Solan Goose, 265. 



Soui-Mangas, The, or Sun Birds, 471 



Sparrow, Hedge, Nest of , 182. 



House, 491. 

 ,, Java, 496. 

 Sparrow, Owl, 553. 



Pampas, 555. 

 Small, 554. 



Sparrow Haiuk, Common, 589. 

 Hawks, 589. 

 ,, ,, Common, 590. 



Dwarf, 591. 

 Spoonbills, 325. 



,, Common White, 326. 



,, Rose-Coloured, 325. 



White, 325. 

 Starling, 485. 

 Starlings, 484. 



,, Common, 485. 

 ,, Sardinian, 485. 

 Stilt Bird, 295. 

 Stint, The, 313. 



