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Stag, lower than the bat, 
34 
Starlings, killed by sparrow-hawk, 
8 
Stoat, a water-vole hunting, 86 
Tabley, Lord de, ghost-moth po- 
etry of, 222 
Tehuelches, children of the Pata- 
gonian, 163 
Thoreau, on the squirrel, 286; his 
“handful of rice,” 297 
Throstle, desire for worms of the 
caged, 75-7 
Toad, the, as traveller, 84-9; con- 
cert music and marriage cus- 
toms, 88-9; pleased to be ca- 
ressed, 90; tongue and fly-catch- 
ing of, 90-1 
Traherne, the Herefordshire mys- 
tic, 224 
Tregarthen, J. C., anecdotes of 
fox and otters reared with 
hounds, 132 
Twitching muscle, mole, 228-31; 
dog, 228; horse, 229; man, 229- 
200; hare, 231 
Tyndall and Hindhead, 1 
Tyrant-bird, rapacious habits of a, 
97 
Vernal squill, first appearance of, 
327 
Viper, Vipera berus. See Adder 
Vizcacha, account of the, 130 
Wasps, spiteful temper, 210-12; 
brilliant colouring, 213; dia- 
bolical instincts of, 214 
Waterton, on heron’s fishing, 93 
White, Gilbert, on a tame snake, 
280 
Willughby, the ornithologist, 250 
Wright, Sir Almroth, on our skin- 
scraping habit, 338 
Youatt, on a strange dog super- 
stition, 277 
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