450 
Snake, its food, 428 
Snake’s eggs in stalagmite, 107 
Snipe, 309 
Snow, uses of, 183 
Songs, autumnal, 361 
Songs of birds, 355 
Song, on what dependant, 357 
Songs, suspension of, 360 
Songs, winter, 361 
South Hams, birds of, 303 
South Hams, quadrupeds of 302 
South Hams, rarer Accipitres of, 
304 
South Hams, rarer Passeres of, 
305 
South Hams, scenery of, 7 
South-west gales, cases of, 188, 
189 
South-west wind as a blight, 
160, 182 
South-west winds, effects of, 153 
South-west winds, power of, 187 
South-west winds, prevalence of, 
152 
South-west winds, tendency to 
their occurrence, 152 
Spatangus in lime-stone, 436 
Spirifer in slate, 433 
Sponges, 268 
Sponges, their nature, 331 
Spongia? (fossil) in slate, 431 
Spring, 158 
Springs, 145 
Springs, chalybeate, 149 
Springs, “ hot and cold”, 146 
Springs, rising of, 144 
Squirrel, actions of, 388 
Squirrel, skeleton of, 392 
Squirrel, tame individual, 389 
Squirrel, “ variety” of, 393 
Stalagmite, variable thickness 
of, 81 
State of the country, advantages 
of the, 285, 286 
St. Germans river, 128 
St. Michael’s Mount, 110, 122 
Stone curlew, 285 
Storm at Widdecombe, 181 
Storm, omen of, 187 
Storms, uses of, 180 
INDEX. 
Stormy Petrel, 226 
Strata, bent at top, 67 
Strata, conformable, 68, 71 
Strata, their consolidation, 66 
Strombodes ? 432 
Submerged forests, 108 
Summer droughts, 145 
Summers, 157 
Superstrata, depths of, 47 
Surface of the country irregular, 
70 
Surprising view, 7 
Swallows, their habitats, 318 
Swallows, their migrations, 345 
428 
Swanpool, 149 
Swifts, their habitats, 315 
Syenite, 2] 
Sylvia neglecta, 207 
Tavistock, climate of, 145 
Terebratulites in quartzoser ock 
433 
Terns, 421 
Testacellus, Maugei, 246 
Thaw, nature of, 183 
Thick-kneed Bustard, 225, 285 
Thunder storms, 181 
“ Tin pebbles,” 134 
Toads, notes on, 408 
Torbay, once a forest tract, 110 
Tortoises, hybernation of, 414 
Tortoises, visits of, 236 
Tortoise, notes on, 410 
Torpidity, 413 
Torpidity of hirundines, 226, 
348 : 
Tors of Dartmoor, 15 
Transition rocks, their ordinary 
relations, 49 
Trapp, action of on slate and 
lime, 21 
Trapp, disintegration of, 138 
Trapp rocks, 22, 28, 32 
Tree sparrow, 307 
Trees, their fixture in rocks, 47 
Trilobites, 56, 433 
Turbinolites in slate, 39, 44,429 
Turbo in slate, 433 
Turtle Dove, 301 
