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Index 



Snake, water, 78. 



Snipe, 27, 35, 46, 50, 71, 140, 166, 174, 



310. 



Snipe, Jack, 166. 

 Snow, deep, 61, 374. 

 Snow-flake, 66. 



Snow-fleck, or greater brambling, 107. 

 Sociality of animals, 255, 256 note, 281. 

 Soft-billed birds that winter in England, 



147, 165. 

 Soil, 4, 5, 6, 40. 

 Soils of Wolmer Forest, 40. 

 Song-birds, 170, 179. 

 Sound, 295. 



Sow, great fecundity of one, 279. 

 Sparrow-hawk, 143, 154, 3 1 5. 

 Sparrow, hedge, 143, 148, 165, 170. 

 Sparrow, house, 116, 143. 

 Sparrow, reed, 108, 164, 166, 170, 174, 



177, 182, and note, 189. 

 Sphynx o eel I at a, 432. 

 Spiculee, icy, 380. 

 Spider, 254. 

 Spinning, 23. 



Spirit in birds with young, 207. 

 Spring Gardens exhibition of stuffed 



birds, 48. 



Springs, land, or levants, 23 3, zndnote, 320. 

 Squirrel, 353, 423. 

 Stag-hounds, 28, 423. 

 Stawell, Lord, 42, 403. 

 Starling, 202, 311. 

 Stickleback, 50, 79. 

 Stillingfeet, Mr., quoted, 45, 59. 

 Stilt-plover, or black-winged stilt, 331. 

 Stoat, 65. 

 Stork-dove, or wood-pigeon, 138, 155, 



156, 158, 166, 195. 

 Stone, free, 4, 6, 15, 16. 

 Stone, rag, 16. 

 Stone, sand, or forest, 16. 

 Stone, yellow, 16. 

 Stone-chatter, 140, 165, 187. 

 Stone-curlew, 66, 67 note, 68, and note, 



70, 87, 88, 104, 109, 124, 164, 363, 



412. 



Stonehenge, 89. 



Storm-cock, missel-bird, or missel- 

 thrush, 55, 138, 170, 250, 311, 400. 



Storm, the great, of 1703, 7. 



Storms, thunder, 385, 387. 



Strawberry, 448. 



Streams, 5. 



Subterraneous trees, 26. 



Summary of the weather, 456, 457. 



Summer birds of passage, 70, 164, and 

 note. 



Summer of 1783 at Selborne, 385. 



Sunbury, 52, 55, 60. 



Sundew, long-leaved, 306. 



Sundew, round-leaved, 306. 



Superstitions, 265. 



Sussex, 3, 66, 91, 136, 186. 



Sussex downs, 4, 145, 186, 222, and 

 note, 223 note. 



Swallow, 43, 56, 59, 70, 96, 109, 115, 

 134, 138, 140, 142, 164, 170, 172, 

 174, 177, 179, 1 8 1, 185, and note, 

 187, 192, 203, 204 note, 226, and 

 note, 249, 286, 311, 356, 418. 



Swallows, congregating and disappear- 

 ance of, 418. 



Swallow's note, 313. 



Swallows, young fed on the wing, 120, 

 228, and note. 



Swammerdam quoted, 74, 76. 



Swan, 143, 1 66. 



Swift, 44, 50, 70, 108, 134, 140, 141, 

 164, 185, and note, 241, and note, 



2 49> 2 99 3"i 339- 

 Swift collects materials for its nest on 



the wing, 242 note. 

 Swift, its difference from the swallow, 



243, and note. 

 Swift, the great Gibraltar, 124, and 



note, 247. 



Swimming of birds, 410. 

 Sycamore, 446. 



TAMENESS of birds in the season of nidi- 



fication, 250. 

 Teal, 35, 50, 140, 166, 211. 



