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Index 



Sclater and Salvin, 

 quoted on : 



Hoatzin, distribution of, 50 

 Scotland, 



snipe, dichromatism of, 9 

 Sea snake, (fiig. 81), 207* 

 Seal, 

 adult, 



coloration, 163, 164 

 elephant, 



distribution since 1880, 170, 171 

 female, 164 

 food of, 167, 168 

 Guadalupe Island rookery, 162 

 (northern), 

 illustrations following page 173 : 

 Fig. 53-60. Adult male elephant 



seal 

 Fig. 61. Adult female elephant 



seal 

 Fig. 63. Black pup 

 Fig. 63-64. Adult male and fe- 

 male, and yearling 

 Fig. 65. Adult male with probos- 

 cis partly relaxed 

 Fig. 66. Sleeping immature male 



yearling and black pup 

 Fig. 67-68. Elephant seals two 

 years old 

 male, 164 

 northern species ; distinctness of, 



171, 172 

 size, 163, 164 

 yearlings, 168, 169 

 young, 168, 169 

 male, 



behavior of, 164 



fighting methods employed by, 165 

 northern elephant, 159-173 

 breeding place, 173 

 distribution of, 159 

 trunk not capable of inflation, 173 

 protection of, 172 

 pups, newly born, 



coloration, 163, 173 

 Southern elephant, 



habitat of, 159-160 

 yearlings, 



coloration, 163 

 Seedeater, 

 Pygmy, 101 

 Yellow-bellied, 101 

 Seirus noveboraccnsis novcboracenisis, 



(Gmel.), 337 

 Seminatrix, 215, 217 

 Sepedon haemachates, 

 food of, 226 



Serpents, 



cannibalistic, 222, 226, 227 

 carnivorous, 198 

 "Chewing" motions, 206 

 Colubrine, 199, 200 



constricting species, 199, 200,* 201-203 

 constricting species (see also "Semi- 

 constricting") 

 dentition of, 205, (fig. 94, 95), 230* 

 economic species, 218, 220, 236 

 egg-eating, 204 

 fanged, 206 

 feeding, cessation of, 



causes of, 197, 198 

 feeding habits of, 197-238 

 feeding methods, 



classified, 202 

 feeding, suspension of, 213 

 feeding traits of, 237-238 

 food of, 210-238 

 food ; character of, 



tabulations by families and sub- 

 families, 232-236 

 insectivorous, 198, 201, 222, 223 

 nervous condition affected feeding, 



197, 198 

 nervous types, 209, 231 

 (Lachesi's atrox), (fig. 96), 232* 

 non-constricting species, 200, 202, 204 

 non-fanged, 



Colubrine, 205 

 non-venomous, 



constricting species, 199, 201 



non-constricting species, 200, 201 



semi-contricting species, 199, 200, 

 201 

 omni-carnivorous defined, 232 

 phlegmatic types (Ancistrodon), 209 

 poisonous, 



feeding of, 197, 200, 201 

 semi-constricting species, 199, 200, 



217, 218 

 skulls of, (figs. 94, 95), 230* 

 venomous, 200, 201, 206-210, 224 

 Seth-Smith, D., 

 quoted on : 



munia flaviprymna and M. casta- 

 neithorax, 17 

 Setophaga ruticilla, 101 

 Shark, whale, 349-389, (fig. 127), 373* 

 bibliography, 387-389 

 breeding, 384 

 capture of, 351 

 color, 356, 372 



fins, dorsal, (fig. 121), 355* 

 food and feeding, 380-383 

 form, 357 



