CONTENTS. 
Salmo trutta, 4754 
Salmon, heavy, 4767 
Sanderling in Essex, 4827 
Sandpiper, common, 4748; habits of, 
5081; curious habit of, 5125 
curlew, at Portrush, 5165 
green, 4788, 4862, 5083, 
5125 
pectoral, in Durham, 4765 
—— purple, 4779 
Sandpipers, green, 5168 
Saury, 4753 
Scaup, 4779 
Scomberesox saurus, 4753 
Scoter, common, at Minehead, 4883 
—— velvet, 5126 
Scyllarus Arctus in Mount’s Bay, 4931 
Sea-anemones, parasitic, 5128 
Seal, 4734; at Holbeton, 4757 
Sea-serpent, great, 4807 
Shearwater, greater, in Devon, 5127 
Manx, 5007, 5169 
Shieldrake, 4789, 4862, 4909 
Shielduck, spelling of, 4846 
Shrew and barn owl, 4871, 4922 
Shrike; great gray, at Fulham, 4761; 
at Yarmouth, 4786; in Essex, 4827 ; 
in East Yorkshire, 4832; near Ring- 
wood, 4989 
lesser gray, in Devon, 5178 
redbacked, 4993; and cuckoo, 
notes on, 5045 
woodchat, 5080 
Siskin,4893; breedingin Wicklow,4957 
Sitta czesia, 4840 
Skua, common, audacity of the, 4804, 
4883 ; near Mansfield, 4883 
pomarine, 5160 
Skull, human, redstart’s nest built in, 
5042 
Skulls, human, redstart and blue tits 
nesting in, 5116 
Smew at Slapton Ley, 4803; at Taun- 
ton, 4847; near Old Malton, id.; 
in West Sussex, 4864; female, near 
Curry Rivel, 4930 
Snake, lizard, in Hampshire, 4884 
Snipe, 4774, 4779 
great, 4788; in Devon, 5126; 
in Perthshire, 5167 
jack, 4895 
— Sabine’s, near Penzance, 4801 ; 
note on, 5142 
—- solitary, in Cornwall, 5167 
Sole, 4755 
Solea vulgaris, id. 
Sparrow, house, nesting of, 4997 
tree, and wood pigeon, 
building in a magpie’s nest, 4875 
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Sparrow, young, blackbird adopting 
a, 5164 
Sparrows, house, and drought, 5043 
Sparrowhawk, 4793; and woodcock, 
4818, 4870; and missel thrush, 5000 
Species, causes of variation in, 5161 
Spoonbill, 5106 
Starfishes and oysters, 4946 
Starling at the Land’s End, 4796; 
feeding with open beak, 4836; 
white, 4877, 5004, 5120; curious 
nesting-places of, 5043; common, 
does it rear two broods in one 
season? 5164 
Starling’s mode of feeding, 4836, 4878, 
4924, 4925 
Starlings pecking with beak. open, 
4837, 4877, 4879, 4925, 5004; and 
rooks often peck with their beaks 
open, 4796; and elder-berries, 4877, 
5005 
Steel traps and gins, 4993 
Stint, 4860 
little, at Portrush, 5165 
Stork, black, at Lydd, in Kent, 4764 
Sucklers, 4962 
Sunfish, short, 5087 
Swallow, ash-coloured, 4787 
—— barn, of America, 4841 
chimney, 4984 
nidification of, 5003 
Swallows and martins, migration of, 
4751, 4798; late, 4841; in Decem- 
ber, id.; and swifts, 4879; and 
sand martins, arrival of, 4927 
Swan, Bewick’s, 4789; and other birds 
at Kingsbridge, Devon, 5180 
Polish, 4789, 4986, 5047, 5084 
Swans, Polish (?), at Northrepps, 5108 
Swift, 4748, 4992; flying against tele- 
graph-wires, 5006; migration of, 
5045; susceptibility of, 5123; late 
nesting of, 5165 
alpine, 5046 
Swifts and swallows, 4879; migration 
of, 5123 
Swordfish in the River Parrett, 5169 
Sylvia melanocephala, 4796 
Syngnathus acus, 4754 
Syrnium aluco, 5079 
Tadpole-fish off Penzance, 5128 
Teal, 4816; varieties of, 5047, 5085; 
rust-colour on the breast of, 5168; 
variation of colour in the, 5180 
Tern, black, 4766, 4991 
roseate, 4909 
Sandwich, 4791, 4804, 4908 
Thames, fish-culture for the, 5110 
Thrush laying in a deserted nest, 5002 
