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1496; great, 1492; jack, 1696, 1736, 

 1861; Sabine's, parasite of, 1562; 

 solitary, near Norwicb, 1722; Sa- 

 biue's (?), at Christchuich, 1722; 

 American jack, 1750; gray, id.; 

 rol)in, id. ; Wilson's, id. ; stone, 

 1751 



Sparrow, tree, 1497, 1543, 1736 ; in 

 Kent, 1599; wbitelhroatecl, in Aber- 

 deenshire, 1547 ; pied, 1697; house, 

 1698, 1858; variety of, 1720; chipping, 

 1744; fox-coloured, id.; Savannaii, 

 id.; wbitecrowned, 2(/. ; whitelhroaied, 

 id.; whire, 1860; in Norfolk, 1^66 



Sparrows, younfj;, in December, 1599; 

 the plague of, 1866; fascinated by a 

 snake, 1918 



Sparrowhawk, 1559 



Species, the death of, 1529, 1784 



Spider or mouse, 1719 



Spoonbill, 1490, 1677; at Benacre, 1562 ; 

 at Scilly, 1S48 



Spring arrivals, 1861 



Spurn Point, notes from, 1942 



Squirrel, 1926 



Starling, 1907; common, chocolate va- 

 riety of, 1600; albino, 1763 



Sierland, J. W., ' The Birds of Sherwood 

 Forest, 1881 



Stint, little, 1490, 1491, 1697, 1912; 

 American, at Northam Burrows, 1920 



Stoat, 1925 



Stork, common, 1699; iu Hulderness, 

 19-16 



Strigida;, 1614, 16S9 



Sturgeons in the Severn, 1836 



Sulidse, 1852 



Swallow, 1498,1545,1721; late, 1562; 

 American chimney, 1692; barn, 1694 ; 

 cliff, id.; bank, 1695; whitebellied, 

 id. 



Swallow's nest, cuckoo in a, 1866 



Swallows, late stay of, 1516; and mar- 

 tins, 1802, 1862 



Swan, black, on the Solent, 1602; on 

 the SufiFolk coast, 1867; Bewick's, at 

 Flamborough, 1645; American, 1753; 

 wild, 1909 



Swift, 1675, 1696, 1907, 1861 



Swifts on the loth of September at 

 Sheerness, 1919 



Sword-fish, 1556 



Sylvicolida;, 1693 



Teal, 1666; garganey, 1739; blue- 

 winged, 1755; greenwinged, id. 



Tern, black, 1490, 1499, 1696; egg of in 

 Norfolk, 1868; Sandwich, 1494; on 

 the Norfolk coast, 1517; common, 

 1499; lesser, id.; at Leigh, 1921; 



Caspian, 1851 ; Wilson's, id.; arctic, 

 1852, 1914; least, 1852; sooty, at 

 Wallin{;ford, 1867 



Terns at East Looe, 1517; in Suffolk, 

 1862 



Tetraouidae, 1745 



Tbaliissites, 1556 



Thraslier, younj."-, in Torbay, 1922 



Thrush, 1546, 1907; blacklhroated, near 

 Lewes, 1560; song, early nesting of, 

 1599; hermit, 1693; migratory, id,; 

 olivebackedjirf. ; Wilson's, it/. ; golden- 

 crowned, 1694 ; missel, early nesting 

 of, 1720; at Tottenham, 18*46; late 

 nesting of, 1861 



Tiger, a cannibal, 1771 



Tigers repulsed by a bullock, 1769; 

 eating porcupines, id. 



Tit, Hudsonian, 1742; blue, nest of in- 

 side a ilirush's nest, 1802; great, rare 

 variety of, 1847 



Titmouse, blackcap, 1742 



Tils and their food, 1927 



Toad, 1826 



Toads devouring bees, 1869 



Tortoise, freshwater, 1596 



Tortoises, 1595 



TurdidiB, 1693 



Tiirkcv, vitality of a, 1722 



Turnstone, 1491, 1748, 1761, 1911 



Twile, 1497 



Twilfs, 1697 



Tyrannida;, 1692 



Varieties of birds' eggs, 1844 ; in Lepi. 

 doplera, 1952 



Variety of birds' nests in one garden, 

 1868; of ring ouzel, 1513; of robin, irf.; 

 of brown liunet, 1561; of rook, 1561, 

 1906; of comuion pheasant, 1562; 

 of blackbird, 1599; of sky lark, id.; 

 of starling, 1600; of moor hen, 1601 ; 

 of woodcock, 1602,1645; of jay, 1603; 

 of sparrow, 1720, 1858, 1860, 1866; 

 of cliaffinch, id.; of Anguis fragilis, 

 1836; of great tit, 1847; of yellow- 

 hammer, id. ; of sand martin, i«Z.; of 

 water hen, 1848; of wild duck, 1906; 

 of nightingale's eggs, beautiful, 1865 ; 

 of wheatear, 1918; of rat, 1926; of 

 rabbit, 1927 



Viper, 1660 



Viperidas, id. 



Visitors, spring, dates of arrival of in 

 North Lincolnshire, 1723 



Wagtail, gray, 1497; in Kent, 1599; 

 yellow, 1497, 1695; pied, 1669, 1673; 

 white, 1669; Ray's, 1673 ; at Scilly, 

 1847 



Warbler, Dartford. near Truro, 1560; 



