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INDEX. 



Shrimp, brine, 73. 

 Siberia, scene in, 43. 

 Silver-thaw, 3. 

 Snake-bird, 214. 

 Snow, beauty of, 2 life in. 66. 

 Snow fjeld, 51. 

 Snow-storm, 2. 

 Sounds of night, 28. 

 Spring, 4 in Canada, 7. 

 Sprites, 225. 

 Stag, Siberian, 43. 

 Stentor, 161. 

 Storks, 181. 

 Summer, Indian, 11. 

 Sunset in the Oural, 22 in the Al- 

 taian, 23. 



TAMENESS of animals, 195. 

 Termites, 106. 

 Thackwray, death of, 249. 

 Timber, destroyers of, 105, 109. 

 Tree-frogs, voices of, 28, 29. 

 Trees, enormous, 135 mammoth, 



141. 



Tropical scenery, 179. 

 Tsetse, 110. 



UNEARTHLINESS, 225. 

 Unicorn, traditions of, 285 Recent 

 reports of, 28C. 



Urania, 177. 

 TJrus, Scottish, 201. 



VENEZUELA, morning in, 18. 

 Volcano, life in, 71. 

 Victoria regia, 190. 



WATER, a drop of, 158. 

 Water-fowl, lines to, 200 at night, 



234. 



Water-insects, 15. 

 Water-lily, royal, 190. 

 Water-shrew, 215. 

 Whale-fishing, perils of, 259. 

 Whale of Havre, 365 Sowerby's, 



366 Rhinoceros, 366 Gosse's, 



367. 



Whale, sperm, 48, 116. 

 Whales, size of, 115 by night, 223. 

 Whetsaw, voice of, 226. 

 White-ants, 106. 



Winter, charms of, 1 Noon in, 20. 

 Wolves, prairie, 237 European, 241 



voracity of, 242 night-attack 



of, 243. 



YEW, large, 137. 



ZAMANG, 136. 

 Zimb, 110. 



