INDEX. 355 



Stencil of the skunk, its effects on 

 a female, 68. 



Sticklebacks, very pugnacious, 26. 



Stock-dove, bird or passage ; often 

 confounded with the ring-dove, 

 distinctions, 244 ; and with rock- 

 dove, 112. 



Stone-curlew, 38,- 52, 102; addi- 

 tional particulars regarding, 298. 



Srogy f\ of animals, several instances 



ot; 127. 



Submersion of swallows, reasons 

 against its probability, 30. 



Summary of the weather, 331. 



Summer and winter clothing of 

 animals, 75, 76. 



Summer-birds noticed by Mr Hoy 

 in Suffolk in 1830, 91. 



Summers 1781 and 1783, unusually 

 sultry, 277. 



Superstitions, 192. 



Swallow, seen at sea by C. L. Bona- 

 parte, 23 ; anecdote of, 88 ; mi- 

 grates in all countries, 107 ; on 

 the wanton destruction of, 133 ; 

 louse, 134; monography of, 149, 

 259; Sir H. Davy's remarks 

 on, 149; migrations, 150; cliff, 

 changing their habits, ib.; attach- 

 ment to places, 152 ; intrepidity 

 of, 153; paternal solicitude, 155; 

 edible nests of, 157 ; congregating 

 and disappearance of, 303. 



Sweden produces '>21 birds, 167. 



Swift, or black marten, latest time 

 seen in England, 23; swift and 

 large bat feed in the same high 

 region of air, 77 ; young com- 

 pletely fledged before taking wing, 

 127 ; monography of, 167 ; velo- 

 city of, on the wing, 169 ; same 

 number seems to return to the 

 same place, 216. 



Sycamore tree forms a beautiful ap- 

 pearance, 322. 



Sympiesometer, description of, 266. 



Table, immense one at Dudley 



Castle, 6. 



Teal, where bred, 130. 

 Tender plants, in what aspect to be 



placed, 267. 



Tench make a croaking sound, 244. 



Thaws, remarkably quick ones, 269, 

 328. 



Thrush, missel, very fierce and pug- 

 nacious, 1 75 ; very serviceable m 

 gardens, 288; frequently builds 

 its nest near houses, ib. 



Timber, large felling of, in Holt 

 Forest, 21. 



Titmice, mode of life and food, 177. 



Toads, manner of procreating, 43 ; 

 tame, 55 ; living for ages in stone, 

 Dr Buckland's experiments on, 

 ib. 



Tortoise, a family one, 100, 124, 

 147, 240, 242; attacked by rats, 

 125 ; eaten in Hungary, 241. 



Totanus hypoleucus, 50. 



Trees, fossil, how discovered, 12; 

 generate moisture, 195 ; why 

 perfect alembics, ib. ; order of 

 losing their leaves, 320 ; size and 

 growth of, 320 ; flowing of sap, 

 321 ; renovation of leaves, 322. 



Tremella nostoc, remark concern- 

 ing, 327. 



Truffles, observations on, 326. 



Turtle-doves migratory, 40. 



Vitrified forts, probable origin of, 9. 



Vine, disease of, 249. 



Viper, blind -worm, and snake, 46 ; 



pregnant one, 200. 

 Virginian horn-owl, its dismal cry, 



anecdote concerning, 132. 



Wagtails, are gregarious, 83; 

 smallest birds that walk, 66; 

 British species of, 137; run 

 round cows feeding on moist 

 pasture, 304. 



Wagtails, their incubation inter- 

 rupted by a cuckoo, 81; their 

 migrations, 137. 



Waldon-lodge, what, and by whom 

 kept, 17. 



Waltham Blacks, much infested 

 Wolmer Forest, and by their 

 enormities occasioned the Black 

 Act, 14, 15. 



Warner, his account of the arrival 

 of wootl cocks, 105. 



