INDEX. 



725 



Scratching birds, 481. 

 Screamer, homed, 459. 

 Screech-owl, 526. 

 Scup, 336. 

 Scuppang, 336. 

 Scyllsea, 98. 

 Scyphistoma, 24. 

 Sea-arrow, 62. 

 Sea-anemones, 27, 28. 

 Sea-cows, 660. 

 Sea-cucumbers, 48. 

 Sea-devil, 302. 

 Sea-dove, 438. 

 Sea-egg, 47. 

 Sea-elephant, 695. 

 Sea- fan, 34. 

 Sea-hawk, 442. 

 Sea-horse, 350. 

 Sea-hound, 296. 

 Seal, eared, 693. 



fur, 693. 



true, 693. 



harp, 694. 



Greenland, 694. 



hooded, 694. 

 Sea-lion, 693. 

 Seals, 692. 

 Sealskin, 693. 

 Sea-mouse, 68. 

 Sea- mussel, 90. 

 Sea- otter, 673. 

 Sea-parrot, 439. 

 Sea-peach, 291. 

 Sea- pear, 291. 

 Sea-pen, 36. 

 Sea-purse, 303. 

 Sea-serpent, 120. 

 Sea-snail, 107. 

 Sea-snakes, 383. 

 Sea-spiders, 288. 

 Sea-squirt, 291. 

 Sea-swallows, 441. 

 Sea-trout, 321. 

 Sea-urchin, 40, 46. 

 Sea- whip, 34. 

 Secondaries, 423. 

 Secretary-bird, 505. 

 Seed-lac, 245. 

 Seed-oysters, 82. 

 Seeds, jumping, 267. 

 Senegal antelope, 647. 

 Sense-organs of Ccelen- 

 terata, 22. 



of Crustacea, 141. 



of molluscs, 84, 97. 

 Sensitive plant, 2. 

 Sepia, 114. 

 Septa, 31. 



Serpent, sea, 120. 

 Serpent- stars, 43. 

 Serpula, 69. 

 Seventeen-year locust, 



252. 

 Sewellel, 600. 

 Shad, 317. 

 Shadines, 317. 

 Shag, 449. 

 Shagreen, 296. 

 Shapan, 620. 

 Sharks, 295. 

 Sharp-shinned hawk, 



520. 

 Sharp- tail grouse, 488. 

 Shearwater, 444. 

 Sheat-fish, 311, 312. 

 Sheath-bill, 480. 

 Sheep, 648. 

 Sheep-rot, 54. 

 Sheldrake, 457. 

 Shell, 78. 



bubble, 98. 



cone, 103. 



ear, 101. 



helmet, 108. 



mitre, 102. 



olive, 102. 



wing, 108. 

 Shell-lac, 245. 

 Ship-worm, 94. 

 Shoe-bill, 469. 

 Shore -crab, 148. 

 Shore-lark, 555. 

 Short-eared owl, 526. 

 Shoveller- duck, 452. 

 Shovel-nose sturgeon, 



' 307. 

 Show'tl, 600. 

 Shrews, 605. 

 Shrew-ash, 606. 

 Shrimp, 136. 



fairy, 127. 



mantis, 150. 



opossum, 141. 

 Shrikes, 560. 

 Side wheel- duck, 457. 

 Silicious sponges, 14. 

 Silicispongise, 12. 

 Silk-worm, 271. 

 Siluris, 311. 

 Silver- bottom whale, 



» 657. 

 Silver- fish, 173. 

 Silver- shells, 82. 

 Simia, 709. 

 Simorhynchus, 438. 

 Simulium, 257. 



Singing- mice, 596. 

 Siphon, 80. 

 Siphonophores, 25. 

 Siphonostoma, 131. 

 Siphuncle, 112. 

 Sirex, 218. 

 Skates, 300. 

 Skimmer, 444. 

 Skimming, 20. 

 Skink, 403. 

 Skip-jack, 327. 

 Skipper, 261. 

 Skippers, 279. 

 Skylark, 556. 

 Skunk, 676. 

 Slave- making ant, 230. 

 Slender loris, 697. 

 Sloth-bear, 671. 

 Sloth, Ceylon, 697. 

 Sloths, 584, 

 Slow lemurs, 696. 

 Slugs, 100, 101. 

 Smelt, 319. 

 Smolt, 320. 

 Snail, 98. 



garden, 98. 



land, 98. 



pond, 100, 105. 



sea, 107. 

 Snake-blowing, 378. 



black, 378. 



bull, 378. 



chain, 377. 



chicken, 378. 



coach- whip, 378. 

 . doctor, 378. 



garter, 380. 



glass, 404. 



green, 378. 



harlequin, 383. 



house, 378. 



king, 377. 



milk, 378. 



pine, 378. 



poison, 380. 



sea, 383. 



striped, 380. 



thunder- and - light- 

 ning, 378. 



water, 379. 

 Snake-birds, 451. 

 Snake-charmers, 382. 

 Snakes, 371. 

 Snapping- beetles, 208. 

 Snapping-turtle, 414. 

 Snipe, 473. 

 Snow-birds, 572. 

 Snow-goose, 458. 



Snow-pheasant, 483. 

 Snowy owl, 527. 

 Soaring of birds, 471. 

 Social wasps, 236. 

 Soft-shelled crab, 148. 

 Soft>shell turtle, 410. 

 Sole, 346. 

 Solen, 93. 

 Somateria, 456. 

 Song- sparrow, 572. 

 Sonora deer, 637. 

 Sooty albatross, 445. 

 Sow-bug, 150. 

 Spade- foot toad, 365. 

 Spanish fly, 204. 

 Spanish mackerel, 333. 

 Span-worm, 268. 

 Sparrow-hawk, 522. 

 Sparrows, 572. 

 Spatula, 453. 

 Specialization, 10. 

 Species, 3. 

 Spectral lemur, 698. 

 Spectre, 698. 

 Speotyto, 527. 

 Spermaceti, 654. 

 Spermophiles, 602. 

 Sperm-whale, 654. 

 Sphargis, 409. 

 Sphinx, 277. 

 Sphryna, 297. 

 Sphyrsena, 329. 

 Spicules, 12. 

 Spider, 163. 



bird, 157, 159. 



caliper, 164. 



garden, 162. 



house, 164. 



jumping, 164. 



spinning of, 160. 



trap- door, 158. 

 Spider-crab, 136, 148. 

 Spider-bites, 163. 

 Spider- monkey, 701. 

 Spider-silk, 160. 

 Spider-webs, 161. 

 Spiders, 154, 157. 



flighl of, 161. 



sea, 288. 

 Spinachia, 349. 

 Spine-headed worm, 



62. 

 Spinnerets of spiders, 



160. 

 Spiracles, 169. 

 Spiny ant-rater, 575. 

 Spiny lobster, 139, 143. 

 Spirorbis, 69. 



