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SEA-ANIMALS, &c., continued. 

 Parrot, 12 

 Unicorn, griffin, 72 

 Urchin, 75, 89 



Sea bottom, green fields, &c., 12 

 Sea-canaiy, the white whale, 259 

 Sea-cow, or rytina, 232 



Sea deities, 19, 22, 31, 32, 62, 84. See Divinities. 

 } ,, fauna, duplicate of terrestrial, II ; for species, see Sea animals. 

 Sea fishing, special list of works on, 68 1 

 Seal, 42, 45, 56, 67, 69, 70 



Sea monsters, &c., II, 12, 19, 27, 28, 30, 49, 71, 72, 75, 84, 89 

 Senior, Major H. W. J., sea serpent seen by, 423 

 Sepia, 71 



,, habits of, 343 



intelligent, 337 



,, microcosmos, 327 



mode of construction, 336, 337, 340 



size, 354 



,, source of locomotion, 337 



spawn, 347 



,, very timid, 337 

 Serpent, sea, abundant in Indian Ocean, 379 



,, ,, Aristotle mentions, 378 



,, ,, belief in, very ancient, 378 



,, ,, description, 380 



; ferocious, 379 



,, ,, supposed, described to the Wernerian Society, 397 



,, supposed by some to be Plesiosaurus, 408, 435 



,, seen by Egede probably a calamary, 393 



,, ,, ,, at Gloucester Harbour, Massachusetts, 396 



,, ,, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, 397 



,, ,, ,, Christiansand, 398 



,, ,, in Romsdal-fjord, 399 



,, water, Livy mentions, 378 



,, ,, Pliny mentions, 378 



Shakespeare, on mermaids, 221 

 Shapes of fish, how acquired, 82, 83 

 Shark, 9, 20, 26, 36, 69, 80, 82, 90 

 Sheikh, 35 



Shell-fish, 75, 76. See under various species. 

 Shrewsbury and Severn Angling Society, 161 

 Sign-boards, fish devices, &c., 77, 79 

 Silurian, 37 

 Skate, 88 

 Smelt, 67 



Smith, Captain, finds supposed serpent to be seaweed, 419 

 Snatching, practice of, ill, 115 



