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INDEX. 



Rockling, Three-bearded, 83, 86 

 liod, Spinning, 4 



rings, 6, 7 



,, spear (cut-and- thrust), 61 

 Rooks, Bareness at base of bill, 217 



Grass scarified by, 215, 216 

 Ryde, Spearing Flat-fish off, 109 



Saithe, 82 



Salicaria locustella, 205 

 Salmoferox, 118 

 Salmon, Disease in, 88, 89 



following the line when hook- 

 ed, 90 

 and Sea-trout, Numbers of, 



87 



taken in Sea- loch, 88 

 Sand Martin, 164 

 Sap, Great discharge of, 225 

 Scatwell Cap, 102 

 Scotch Lochs, see " Lochs" 

 Sea Bream, 83 



Birds, Mortality among, 235 

 Devil, 83 

 fishing, 69 



Stern of boat best in, 67 

 Tackle for, 72 

 lochs, Animal life in, 80 

 Birds on, 233 

 Gull, see " Gull" 

 Weed, Maggots from, 230 

 Shells, Disposition of egg-, 167 

 Shell-fish, in Scotch Lochs, 80 

 Shrimps, as bait, 73 



eat their own exuviae, 180 

 Sillock, 82 

 " Silver Haddie," 83 

 Skate, 83, 98 



Sour, 140 

 Skin, Swelling of, from fish-diet, 139 



Small spotted Dog-fish, 83 

 Snake and Eel, 174 



,, Fetidness of Common, ib. 

 " Snakes and Puddock-stools," 137 

 Snipe, 221 

 Snooding, 86 

 Snow Bunting, 204 

 Spain, Large Lizard in, 171 

 Spaniel, Anecdotes of, 181, 186, 190, 



191, 213 



Sparrow-Hawk, Determination of, 241 

 Sparrows, House, flock together before 



hard weather, 223 

 Spate, Artificial, 89 

 Spear, Cut-and-thrust rod, 61 

 Spearing Flat-fish, 106 

 Sphex, 146 

 Spinning, Directions for, 3 



Rod for, 4 



Tackle for, 9 

 Spoonbill, 203 

 Sprats, 139 



Squaterola cinerea, 206 

 Squirrel, Fancy taken by, 187 

 Squirrels, 221 

 Stag's shed-horns, how disposed of? 



179 



Starlings, Breeding of, in Isle of 

 Wight, 195 



Vast flock of, 196 

 Steamers, Fishing from, 94 

 Stenlock (or Stedlock), 82 

 Stickleback, Nest of, 110 

 Stoat, Boldness and Voracity of, 242 

 Stock Doves, Flocks of, 201 

 Stoddart's Angler's Companion^ 117 

 Stone-Curlew, 206 



Murder of, 209 



Storm, Singular effect of, 224 

 Stour, The, 20, 111 

 Striking Jack, 19 



Sundays, Tameness of Animals on, 212 

 Swallows killed by parasites, 165 



