652 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Sparrow-hawk, changes of plumage, 304. 

 Sphinx A'tropos, captured out at sea, £24. 

 Spissula described, 372. 

 Spoonbills, a flock in Aberdeenshire, 134. 

 Squatarbla cinerea, changes of plumage, 480. 

 Squirrel, method of opening nuts noticed, 3. 

 Stachys palustris, experiments upon the stem, 



60. 

 Stag, fossils remains of, 12,3. 

 Starlings fed by a kestrel, 303. 

 Starling, variety of, in the southern counties of 



Scotland, 119; instance of its building its 



nest in a well, 119. 

 • Statice plantaginea, discovered in the Island of 



Jersey, 25. 

 Steneosaurus. See Crocodile, fossil. 

 Stigmus, observations upon, in relation to rules 



of nomenclature, 172. 

 Stonethat, difference in the plumage of the two 



sexes, 85. 

 Stork, white, natural range of, 134. 

 Strata, tertiary, characters of their fossil shells, 

 f 12; superposition of, 12. 

 Streptaxis figured and described, 48). 

 Streptospdndylus, description of. 351. 

 Strigidae, changes of plumage in the young, 

 i 306. 



Strophostoma noticed, 485. 

 S6s, variation of the number of vertebra? in 

 !i different species, 358. 

 Swan River colony, offer from a resident to col. 



lect specimens in natural history there, 54. 

 Swanwich, geological observations on the chalk 

 fsstrata of, 414. 



Swifts, remarks upon their migration, 108 ; in- 

 stance of a brood being hatched in September, 



109. 

 Symmnrphus, characters of the group, 405. 

 Tarantula, attempt to determine the species, 



64 ; specific characters minutely detailed, 



65 ; natural habits of, 69 ; stratagem employed 

 to capture it, 71 ; account of a tame indivi- 

 dual, 72; combats with each other, 73. 



Teleosaurus, description of, 350. 



Terebratula, description ot a gigantic species of, 



I 92]; remarkable distinctionTjetween the young 

 and adult shell, 94 ; general remarks upon the 

 geological relations of the genus, 95; objec- 

 tions to the percentage test, founded upon 

 the history of T. variabilis, 96 ; enumeration 

 of the localities in which this species is met 

 with, 97. 



Terms, on the inexpediency of altering, wnere 

 established, 127. 



Tetracnemus figured and described, 258. 



Thecla quercus, settling on the summits of 

 oaks, noticed, 20. 



Thrush, if reared in confinement, does not war- 

 ble its wild notes, 3. Removes the poison 

 from a wasp before swallowing it, 2. 



Thumb, on the opposable power of, in certain 

 mammals, 449. 



Tichogiinia Chemnitzii. See Mytilus polymor- 

 phus. 



Trap rocks, observation upon the boulders 

 of, 145. 



Trees, pleasures of cultivating them, 74. 



Trivia cataphracta Lin. See Mailed Gurnard. 



Tringa pectoralis shot near Yarmouth, 116 ; 

 platyrhyncha shot near Yarmouth, 54. 116. 



Trochflium crabromf6rme, observations upon 



its habits in the larva state, 19. 

 Trbgon, remark upon its characters, 136. 

 Tropae'olum majus, supposed electrical proper- 

 ties of, 241. 

 Turtle, singular anecdote of, 26. 

 Varieties, not permanent in nature, 80. 

 Vegetables, life of, compared with that of ani. 



mals, 28. 

 Ventriloquism in the robin, 279 ; in the robin 



and other birds, 445. 

 Viper, occurrence of, in Cumberland, 184 ; enu- 

 meration of the supposed different species, 

 184; on the natural habits of, 186; instance 

 of one containing young, 190 ; on the dif- 

 ferent species of, 185 ; remarkable fact in the 

 habits of, 383 ; singular fact in habits of, 411. 

 Voluta Lamberti, letter from M. Deshayes on 

 this shell, 91 ; locality in which it is most 

 abundant, 38 ; recent appearance of speci- 

 mens thrown up by the sea, 38; quotation 

 respecting it from Parkinson's Organic Re- 

 mains, 39; opinions of different conchologists 

 respecting its identification with a recent vo- 

 lute, 40; objections to Mr. Lyell's percentage 

 test . educed from its history, 42; separated 

 from the true volutes by Mr. Gray, 43. 

 Yulpcs griseus (grey fox), magelianica (Ma- 

 gellanic fax), and nepalensis (Nepal dog), de- 

 scribed, 578. 

 ViMiur Aura, its powers of smell, 638. 

 Wagtails, observations on the group of, 461. 

 Wagtail, pied, distinct from any described spe- 

 cies, 460 ; yellow, separation from Motacilla 

 neglecta, 459. 

 Wasp, description of a new British species, 491. 

 Weather, prognostications ot, 545. 

 Whitethroat, predominance of males, 85. 

 Widgeon, mode ot changing plumage, 260. 

 Wind, notice of the severe gale of November 

 29 , 55 ; method of registering its direction, 56. 

 Woodcocks breeding in Britain, 439; breed- 

 ing in Scotland, 337 ; croaking sound of, 337; 

 instance of the young being carried in the 

 claws of the parent birds, 3^8; facts relating 

 to the habits of, 121 ; supposed to carry the 

 young in its claws, 122; specimen shot at 

 Thir»k in July, 52. 

 Woolaston medals awarded, 224. 

 Yew, observations on the longevity of, 28 ; du- 

 rability of the wood, 29; opinions of De Can- 

 dolle respecting the rapidity of its growth, 

 diameter of numerous specimens, 29; in- 

 stance of one bearing male and female parts 

 of fructification, 30 ; observations of Professor 

 Henslow quoted, 30; figure of a large one in 

 the churchyard at Gresford, 31 ; best kind of 

 saw for making sections, 32; dimensions of 

 one in the churchyard at Darley, 33; sources 

 of error in ascertaining the annual rings by 

 sections, 34; dimensions of one in the church- 

 yard at Llanfoist, 35 ; reasons for* its frequent 

 occurrence in churchyards, 85 ; conjectured 

 to attain the age of 3000 years, 87 ; one grow- 

 ing in the interior of another, figured at 

 p. 88 ; curious fact noticed in one at Port- 

 bury, Bristol, 89. 

 Zoological Society, additions to the menagerie, 

 434. 648; robbery of an armadillo, 434 ; offer 

 of premiums, 333. 



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