INDEX. 237 



Sermon?, dull, and ' fissi-rostres ' people, 45. 

 Shakspeare, accurate use of words, 133 (161). 



Quoted or referred to : — 



Cymbeline, iv. 2, 'ruddock with charitable bill,' 141 



(171). , , ^ 



Macbeth, i. 6, ' temple-haunting martlet, 143(172). 



Measure for Measure, ' not scurvy nor a temporary 

 meddler,' 133 (160). 

 ^^ ,, 'scurvy and provoking terms,' 



135 (162). 

 Midsummer's Night Dream, ' ouzel-cock so black of hue,' 89. 

 Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, /re/. 



Shepherd, Mr., on eider ducks, 127 (150). 



Shooting, love of birds and, 2, 39, 113 {123-4). 



Siberia, 'changeful fairy' in, 115 (127). 



Similes of great writers pregnant with meaning, 44. 



Sinbad, origin of the story, 56. 



Smith, Dr., 'South African Zoology,' 147 (180). 



Soldiers, types of modern English, 137 (165). 



Songsters (birds), 88. 



Sophocles, CEd. Col, on birds, 38. 



Soyer, M., great dish of birds (1851), 124 (146). 



Spallanzani, experiment on swallow's flight, 144 (174)- 



Sparrows, 88. 



Spenser, ' Hobbimol,' 35. 



Spindle, to be of dogwood, 22. 



Sport, 139, 168. See s. Hunting, Racing, Shooting. 



Stanley, Bishop, on the grebe, 102, no. 



Jacana, 99«. 



water-hen, 119-20 (134 seq.). 



Steam-engines, modern love of, 41. 

 Stint, song of the, 91. 

 ,, feet of the, loi. 

 Stork, 88. 

 Swallow, all wings, 30. 



beauty of the, 41 seq. 

 Bible kind, 146 (178). 

 , , class of, 88. 



connection with bat and owl, 57. 

 ,, ,, ,, dolphin and trout, 62. 



