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Stag, lower than the bat, 



34 

 Starlings, killed by sparrow-hawk, 



8 

 Stoat, a water-vole hunting, 86 



Tabley, Lord de, ghost-moth po- 

 etry of, 222 



Tehuelches, children of the Pata- 

 gonian, 163 



Thoreau, on the squirrel, 286; his 

 "handful of rice," 297 



Throstle, desire for worms of the 

 caged, 75-7 . . 



Toad, the, as traveller, 84-9; con- 

 cert music and marriage cus- 

 toms, 88-9; pleased to be ca- 

 ressed, 90; tongue and fly-catch- 

 ing of, 90-1 



Traherne, the Herefordshire mys- 

 tic, 224 



Tregarthen, J. C., anecdotes of 

 fox and otters reared with 

 hounds, 132 



Twitching muscle, mole, 228-31; 



dog, 228; horse, 229; man, 229- 



230; hare, 231 

 Tyndall and Hindhead, 1 

 Tyrant-bird, rapacious habits of a, 



97 



Vernal squill, first appearance of, 



327 



Viper, Vipera berus. See Adder 

 Vizcacha, account of the, 130 



Wasps, spiteful temper, 210-12; 

 brilliant colouring, 213; dia- 

 bolical instincts of, 214 

 Waterton, on heron's fishing, 93 

 White, Gilbert, on a tame snake, 



280 



Willughby, the ornithologist, 250 

 Wright, Sir Almroth, on our skin- 

 scraping habit, 338 



Youatt, on a strange dog super- 

 stition, 277 



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