Santander, Observations around, 189 



Saxicola, 162 



Scilly Is., Protection of Birds on, 259 



Scomber, 231, 235 



Scoters, 190 



Seal, 149 



" Seal," The, of Otters, 102 



Sea-pies, 50 



Sea-swallows, 155 



Senegal pies, 280 



Seville, Observations around, 196-201, 



212 



,, Shooting around, 197-201 

 Shags, 174-5, 2 78 

 Shahin, Black, 79 

 Shama, 48 

 Shearwaters, 154 (note), 175, 179, 221 



(note) 



Shovellers, 10 

 Shrew, Spanish Trumpet, 74 



Water-, 73 



Shrike, Great Grey, 61 

 ,, Grey Coly, 279 

 Red-backed, 286 

 Shrikes, 122, 298 

 Sialia sialis, 276 

 Sicily, Observations in, 159 



Wild life in, 168 

 Siskins, 23 

 Sitta albiventris, 277 

 Skylark-hawking, 130 

 Skylarks, 17 

 Skua, Buffon's, 14 



,. Egg of, 55 



Great, 55, 56 



,, Richardson's, 222 

 Smews, 19 

 Snipe, 16, 77, 96, 190, 218, 294 



,, Hawking, 125 

 Spain, Birds of, 91 



Kites in, 21 



LORD LILFORD in, 146-7 



LORD LILFORD'S attachment to, 

 245 



Vultures of, 171 (note) 

 Spargi and Spargiotto, Observations 

 on, 241 



Sparrowhawk, 23, 87 



Sparrows, 164 



Spezia, Observations at, 150, 225 



Sport in Italy, 151-2 



" Spraint," The, of Otters, 102 



Starling, Rose-coloured, 149 



,, Sardinian, 280-2 

 Starlings, 17, 19, 279, 286 

 Stercorarius catarrhactes, 55 



,, parasiticus, 14 

 Stoats, Pied, 31 

 Stone-chat, 61 

 STOPFORD, WALTER M., ESQ., Letters 



to, 22, 23, 82, 113 

 Storks, 34 

 Straits of Bonifacio, Observations 



around, 236 

 Strix capensis, 277 

 Sturmts unicolor, 280 

 Sula bassana, 187 (note) 

 Swan, Bewick's, 9, 91, 276 



,, Whooper, Note on, 19, 91, 276 

 Swifts, 12, 20, 222 

 Sylvia melanopogon, 223 

 ,, melanothorax, 253 

 Syracuse, Observations around, 162-6 

 Syrnium atricapilla, 69 



,, cinereum, 76 



,, lapponicum, 62, 79 



,, newarense, 63 



perspicillatum, 63 



uralense, 281 



Taormina, Observations near, 156 

 Teal, 15, 19, 302 



,, Japanese, 54 

 Tern, 172 

 Black, 12 

 ,, Protection of, on East Coast, 



258-9 



" Thick-knee," 54, 85 (note) 

 THORBURN, A., ESQ., Letters to, 72, 83, 



90-97 

 Thrush, Blue Rock, 48, 87 



,, Chinese Laughing, 280 

 ,, Missel, 27 

 Song, 19 



