INDEX. 



Snow f jeld, 55. 



Snow-storm, 12. 



Sounds of night, 35. 



Spring, 14— in Canada, 16. 



Sprites, 214. 



Stag, Siberian, 48. 



Stentor, 155. 



Storks, 174. 



Summer, Indian, 20. 



Sunset in the Oural, 30-in the Altaian, 31. 



Tameness of animals, 187. 

 Termites, 106. 

 Thackwray, death of, 236. 

 Timber, destroyers of, 105, 108. 

 Tree-frogs, voices of, 35, 36. 

 Trees, enormous, 132— mammoth, 137. 

 Tropical scenery, 172. 

 Tsetse, 109. 



Unearthmness, 214. 



Unicorn, traditions of, 269— Recent reports of, 270. 



Urania, 170. 



Urus, Scottish, 192. 



Venezuela, morning in, 26. 

 Volcano, life in, 73. 

 Victoria regia, 183. 



Water, a drop of, 153. 



Water-fowl, lines to, 191— at night, 222. 



Water-insects, 23. 



Water-lily, royal, 183. 



Water-shrew, 207. 



Whale-fishing, perils of, 245. 



Whale of Havre, 342— Sowerby's, 342— Rhinoceros, 343— Gosse's, 

 343. 



Whale, sperm, 53, 115. 



Whales, size of, 114— by night, 212. 



Whetsaw, voice of, 215. 



White-ants, 106. 



Winter, charms of, 11— Noon in, 28. 



Wolves, prairie, 225— European, 229— voracity of, 230— night- 

 attack of, 231. 



Yew, large, 134. 



Zamang, 133. 

 Zimb, 109. 



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