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Seals at home, 491 



Serranus, smooth, at Penzance, 348 



Shad, allice, on the Aberdeenshire coast, 

 349 



Shag, 30, 172, 213, 298, 45 1 , 474 ; habits 

 of, 244 ; flight and diving of, 249; use 

 of its peculiar tail, the hooked bill and 

 the serrated claw, 250; the food of, 

 and how swallowed, 251 ; cry of, 252; 

 nidificallon and plumages of, 253 ; 

 detailed account of the summer plu- 

 mages of the, 328; its habits in con- 

 finement, 330 



Shark, spinous, in Mount's Bay, Corn- 

 wall, 102, 113; Greenland, on the 

 Dogger Bank, 230 ; blue, 509 



Shearwater, 298 ; at Epping, 526 



Shearwater, great, 29; manx, 165 



Shieldrake, 27, 162 



Shoveller, 27 



Shrew, note on the, 327; oared, 510 



Shrike, great gray, near Kochdale, 31 ; 

 in Stirlingshire, 67, 143; at Pevensey, 

 96; in Wiltshire, 308; great ash- 

 coloured, 132; redbackeil, 133,170; 

 woodchat, at Brighton, 267 



Siskin, 66, 88, 166, 212, 298; nest of, 

 522 



Skua, 16 ; Buflfou's, 28 ; Richardson's, 

 28, 165; pomarine, 141, 165 



Smew, 163 



Snipe, 17, 258; late stay of the, 311; 

 solitary, in Suffolk, 40; common, 71, 

 83, 127, 166, 302; jack, 71,83, 127, 

 299, 302 ; great, 83 ; large, 97 ; winter, 

 302 ; Sabine's, 302 



Snow, insects on, 390 



Sorex rusticus ? 327 



Sparrow, house, 17, 137, 171, 296; late 

 nesting of, 32 ; black, id. ; white, 96 ; 

 tree, 121 



Sparrowhawk, 67, 132, 170, 261, 339 



Species, origin of, 235 



Spider or mouse? 105, 284, 349, 386, 

 387, 458 



Spoonbill, in Middlesex, 35} in Norfolk, 

 264; near Yarmouth, 442 



Squatina Angelus, 509 



Squirrel, 241,511 



Siainton, H. T., Douglas, H. W., and 

 Professor Frey, ' The Natural History 

 of the Tineina,' 157 



Starling, 121, 131, 137, 225, 258, 299; 

 hawking for flies, 310; adopting 

 Cornwall as a breeding locality, 455 ; 

 variety of, 28; white, 32 



Starling, redwinged, at Brighton, 229; in 

 Scotland, 310 



Stickleback, smoothtailed, in Norfolk, 348 



Stint, little, 83, 127; Temminek's, 127; 

 at Rainham, 311; at King's Lynn, 

 457 



Stoat, 159 



Stonechat, 119, 134, 218, 222 



Stork, at Cork, 524 ; small gray and 

 black, 14 



Strix passerina in Wiltshire, 227 



Sturgeon off the coast of Suffolk, 510 



Sturjjeons off the coast of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, 311 



Sun-fish at Penzance, 390 



Surmullet at Penzance, 348 



Swallow, 70, 78, 171, 337, 340, 479 



Swallow stones, 523 



Swallows, white, 455 



Swan, 169, 338, 341 ; Bewick's, 161 



Swift, 78, 123, 227,295, 439,443, 481, 

 615; in September, 456 ; late slay of, 

 523 ; whitebellied, 227 ; in the Western 

 Islands of Ireland, 456, 523; alpine, 

 in Ireland, 389 



Swifts, late stay of, 498 



Syngnathus Eequoreus, 508 



Talegallus Lathami, 42 



Teal, 128, 162 



Tern, arctic, 29, 164, 299; black, 29, 

 87, 128, 165, 266,482; in Somerset- 

 shire, 272; near Aldeburgh, 499 ; in 

 Devon and Cornwall, 500 ; near Aber- 

 deen, 525 ; lesser, 29, 87, 165 ; Sand- 

 wich, 30; common, 72, 87, 128, 165; 

 little, nesting of, 100; roseate, 165, 

 300, 305; lesser and black, at Weston- 

 super-Mare, 272; swift, 382 



Terns, 263 



Thresher, 509 



Throscus dermestoides, 281 

 „ elateroides, id. 

 „ oblusus, id. 



Thrush, 119, 416; missel, 119, 133; 

 singing in December, 143 ; song, 124, 

 220 



Tineina, a Natural History of the, 157 



Titmouse, marsh, 120 ; blue, 135 ; cole, 

 135; great, 135; longtailed, 135, 267; 

 and goldcrest, eggs of in one nest, 

 269 



Tits, 215 



Topknot, MuUer's, 311, 508 



Torpedo nobiliana, 509 



Turnstone, 90, 124, 291, 451,475 



Turtle in Cornwall, 102 



Twite, 17,66, 121 



Variety of the starling, 28, 32, 96 ; of the 

 hedgesparrow, 29 ; of the sparrow, 32, 

 96 ; of the martin, 33 ; of the bank 

 vole, 152; of the linnet, 262; of the 

 great spotted woodpecker, 271 ; of the 



