INDEX. 



439 



Snail, the common, 339 the 

 banded, 342 the haloti- 

 deus, 353. 



Snakes, eggs of, 306 harm- 

 lessness of, 307 general 

 aversion to, 308. 



Snapdragon, peculiarities of, 

 76 a perfect insect trap, 

 ibid. 



Snipe, the jack, its habits, 

 252 supposed the male of 

 the larger snipe, 254. 



Snowdrop, the, 92 a melan- 

 choly flower, ibid. 



Soil, of the parish in which 

 the Author resides, 5 

 various sorts of, 17 ana- 

 lysis of, considered falla- 

 cious, ibid. picking soil 

 off grass lands a bad cus- 

 tom, 46. 



Song of birds, 262. 



Sparrow, the hedge, 148 

 the common, 211. 



Spottings, on apples, 384 

 on strawberry leaves, 387. 



Starling, the common, 194 

 the brown, 200. 



Steaming of the earth, 404. 



Stinking phallus, the, 124. 



Stormy petrel, the, 190. 



Strontian, 12. 



Sugar in plants, 80 the 

 basis of animal nutriment, 

 82 contains above half its 

 weight, of oxalic acid, ibid. 



Sulphur butterfly, 98. 



Sun, effects of the rays of, 

 Tipon colours, 76. 



Sundew, destructive to in- 

 sects, 77. 



Superstition, 326, 348. 

 Swallows, their nests, 170 



killed in wanton sport, 



221. 

 Sycamore tree, singularity of 



its leaves, 120. 



Taste, the most variable ef 

 our senses, 80. 



Teazle, its cultivation, 39 

 its profits, 43 its uses, 45. 



Thorn, the white, uniform in 

 its blossoming, 205. 



Thrush, the solitary, 200 

 the common, 208, 339 

 the missel, 249 song of, 

 270. 



Tiger moth, 291. 



Timidity of animals, 250. 



Tobacco, 76. 



Tokens of wind and weather, 

 248, 268. 



Tomtit, or titmouse, the 

 little blue, rewards for the 

 destruction of, 161 pe- 

 rishes in severe winters, 

 162 the long-tailed, 164 

 instance of its intelli- 

 gence in the care of its 

 young, 170. 



Traveller's joy, name given 

 to the wild clematis, 109. 



Trees, uncertainty of the age 

 of, 50 prodigious size of 

 several, 51 attractors of 

 humidity, 58 air under, 

 59 condense fogs, ibid. 

 cause of the verdure be- 

 neath, 60 mischief of 

 pollarding them, 401. 



Tree creeper, the, 238. 



