450 



INDEX 



Shrikes, 117, 127, 293, 324, 403 



Silver-bills, 227, 300, 302 



Singa, 335 



Sirdar, the, 306, 376 



Situtunga, 150, 152, 247, 262 



Smith, Mr Norman, 188, 419 



Snakes, 122, 201, 230, 249, 303, 382, 



397 



Snipes, 239 

 Sobat-lark, 146 

 Sobat River, 37, 86, 127 

 Sodom-apple, 304 

 "Sont," 135 (Acacia) 

 Sounds audible under water, 203 

 Sparrow, 22 ; golden, 303 

 hawk, little black-, 63 



red-eyed, 383 

 Spears, 65, 70, 291 

 Species, manufacture of new, 162 

 "sub-," 27, 69, 93, 188, 205, 343 

 Spiloptila damans, 28 

 Spiny-mice, 252, 323, 381 

 .. Sponges, 393 



Spoonbills, 42, 61, 140, 392, 397 



Spreo pulcher, 30 



Spur-wing plover, 43, 61, 114, 115, 



139, 293 



Squirrels, ground-, 253, 323 

 Stack, General Sir Lee, 306 

 Stalking, 8, 34, 85, 86, 98, 99, 105, 



351, 369 

 Starling, glossy, 30, 117, 124, 227, 320, 



328 



Steganura paradisea, 3 1 7 

 Sterna ancsstheta, 397, 399 

 bergii, 389 

 caspia, 389 

 saundersi, 389 

 /p* Stigand, Major C. H., 280, 282, 295, 



415 



Stilt, 112,235,239,262,293 

 Stints, little, 113, 293, 315 

 Stomoxys, 78 



Stone-curlew, 70, 114, 293, 360 

 Stork, Abdim's, 267, 268, 296, 297 



bishop-, 115, 116 



saddle-billed, 139 



whale-headed, 268 ; white, 297 

 Storks, 58, 6 1, 112, 269, 296, 315 



Storks, migration of, 296, 348 

 Striped rat, 252, 322 

 Struthio molybdophanes, 205 

 "Sub-species," making and naming 



of, 27, 69, 93, 1 88. 205, 343 

 Sudd, the, 38, 93, 203, 259, 263, 268, 



270 



growth of, 257 

 Sula sula, 389 

 Summer in Sudan, 19 

 Sun-birds, 117, 227, 255, 285, 293, 300, 



304, 35> 324, 348, 384 

 Sun-flowers, 300 

 Sunrise, 4, 167 



Survival of the fittest, 138, 321 

 Swallows, 254, 255, 285, 304 

 Swayne's hartebeest, 94 

 Swift, a new, 324 



palm-, 109, 254 

 Sword-hunters, 14 

 Sylvia mystacea, 391 



nana, 391 



Sylviella, 117, 255, 383 

 Sympathy, animal-, 157, 184, 283, 371 



Tabanus, 55, 77 

 Tamarind-tree, 64 

 Tamarisk, 314 

 Taterillus gyas, 323 

 Tchagra, 227, 229 

 Teal, 40, 239, 315 



whistling, 59, 136, 137, 138, 143 

 Telephonus remigialis, 229 

 Telescope- sight, 156, 370 



falls into Nile, 195 

 Temperatures, 15, 256, 318 

 Tenacity of life (antelopes), 373 

 Termite, the, 330 

 Tern, black, 254 



Caspian, 43, 254, 389 



gull-billed, 43, 254, 389 



lesser sooty, 397, 399 



whiskered, 254 



white-winged, 254 



yellow-billed (S. bergii), 389 

 Thayer, Mr Gerald H., 436 

 Thirstless beasts, 396, 405 

 Thistle, blue-blossomed, 351 

 Thomas, Mr Oldfield, 322 



