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GENERAL INDEX. 



Rooks, have the greatest dread of 

 a gun, 144. 



periods of building and hatch- 

 ing, 145. 



construct their nests of fresh 



twigs, 145. 



resort much to pastures in 



April, 147. 



suck partridges' eggs, 147. 



do not always discover the 



grubs of the cockchaffer by 

 scent, as supposed, 148. 



their food during severe 



frost, 149. 



anatomical notes respecting, 



149. 



some varieties of, 150. 



sometimes prey on fish, 150. 



one with a monstrous bill, 



151. 



Rot in sheep, 312. 

 Ruffe, singular monstrosity of, 208. 

 Rules for observing, 31. 



Sandpiper, green, note respecting, 

 180. 



Sarcoptes passerintis, remarks upon, 

 289. 



Shallow, the, of Cambridgeshire, 

 214. 



Sheep, terribly worried by horse- 

 flies, 82. 



long-woolled, much infested 

 by lice, 83. 



Sheep-paths, note respecting, 85. 



Shepherds, their precaution in put- 

 ting a strange lamb to a ewe that 

 has lost its own offspring, 52. 



Shrew, common, instance of its ex- 

 treme voracity, 62. 



Shrike, red-backed, remarks on its 

 food, 124. 



Sinonendron cylindricum, note re- 

 specting, 236. 



Siskins, feed much on the seeds of 

 the alder, 139. 



Smelts, notes respecting, 219. 



Smew, note respecting its food, 191. 



Snake, common, its power of re- 

 maining a long time under water, 

 with other particulars respecting, 

 199. 



Snipe, common, young obtained 

 from Burwell fen, 181. 



Sporendonema muscce^ a peculiar 

 mould or fungus found on flies, 

 275, note. 



Squirrel, its nest, 73. 



note respecting, 73. 



Stickleback, ten-spined, a large spe- 

 cimen of, 210. 



Stoat, instance of its boldness, 63. 

 feeds occasionally on yew- 

 berries, 64. 



instance of its preying on 



eels, 65. 

 Sturgeon, one taken in the Ouse 



near Ely, 224. 



Swallow, time of its arrival, &c., 

 at Swaffham Bulbeck, 158. 



white variety of, 159. 



its peculiar note at break of 



day, 159. 



Swan, tame, note respecting its eat- 

 ing fish, 187. 



Swifts, the number of pairs at 

 Swaffham Bulbeck, 163. 



stay late at Ely, 163. 



