CONTENTS. 
reflection in, 299; curious nesting- 
place for, 388 
Sparrow, Savannah, 411 
Swamp, 411 
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Sparrowhawk, 195, 234 
American, 422, 
Spatula clypeata, 205, 484 
Sphyrapicus varius, 419 
Sponges, Dr. Bowerbank’s collection, 
262 
Spoonbill, 95, 343; former nesting in 
the county of Sussex, 425 
Spoonbills in Suffolk, 343, 525 
Squalis centrina, 221 
Squatarola cinerea, 285 
45 helvetica, 474 
Starling, 241; roosting habits, 253 
»  Red-winged, 257 
Starling and Blackbird, varieties, 22 
Starlings nesting in Sand Martins’ 
holes, 301 
Steam against wings, 343 
Sterna anestheta, 215 
anglica, 490 
arctica, 3825 
cantiaca, 324 
fuliginosa, 213, 490 
hirundo, 324, 490 
lunosa, 215 
minuta, 325 
nigra, 325 
paradisiea, 490 
Stilt, Black-necked, 475 
Stint, American, 476 
», Little, 96 
Stoat, Moorhen defending its young 
from a, 255 
Stonechat, 238 
Stork, Black, in Oxfordshire, 180 
Strepsilas interpres, 285, 475 
Strix brachyotus, 236 
flammea, 236 
nyctea, 237 
5, otus, 235 
Sturnus vulgaris, 241 
Sula bassana, 330 
», fiber, 486 
Sunfish in the Bristol Channel, 451 
», Short, in the Exe, 451 
Surnia ulula var. Hudsonica, 421 
Swallow and Swift, distinguishing 
anatomical characters of, 217 
Swallow, 202, 242; Cuckoo laying in 
nest of, 260; curious death of, 447 
Bank, 402 
Barn, 406 
White-bellied, 407 
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Swan, 12 
Bewick’s, near Sheffield, 446 
», Whistling, 482 
Swan-marks, 445 
Swannery at Abbotsbury, 505 
Swans, Wild, 321 
Swift, 242 
», Chimney, 417 
Swinhoe, Robert, F.R.S., death of, 525 
Sylvia cinerea, 238 
Syrnium nebulosum, 420 
Tachycincta bicolor, 407 
Tachypetes aquilus, 487 
Tadorna vulpanser, 323 
Tadpole-fish off Penzance, 109 
Tanager, Scarlet, 406 
Teal, 205, 324 
Blue-winged, 484 
», Green-winged, 483° 
Tern, Arctic, 325 
Black, 325 
Common, 324, 490 
Gull-billed, 490 
Lesser, 325 
Noddy, 490 
Roseate, 490 
Sandwich, 101, 324 
Smaller Sooty, at the Mouth 
of the Thames, 213 
» sooty, 490 
Tetrao tetrax, 202 
»  urogallus, 202 
Thrush, American Red-breasted, in 
England, 14; in Bermuda, 397 
Golden-crowned, 404 
Missel, 237 
Olive-backed, 398 
Py Song, 197, 237; buff variety, 
256; young Cuckoo in nest, 300; 
young, feeding a Cuckoo, 496 
Water, 404 
* Wood, 398 
Thynnus vulgaris, 27 
Tit, Blue, 239 
», Cole, 239 
» Great, 239 
», Long-tailed, 239 
Titmouse, Northern Marsh, 198 
Toads in Ireland, 451 
Totanus calidris, 208, 285 
flavipes, 478 
fuscus, 286 
elareola, 203 
glottis, 287 
hypoleucus, 203, 287 
melanoleucus, 477 
ochropus, 287 
semipalmatus, 477 
solitarius, 478 
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