INDEX. 



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Sea purses, i. 169. 

 Sea serpents described, ii. 140. 

 Selachus, characters of, i. 141. 

 Senses of fishes, i. 46. 

 Seps described, ii. 157. 

 Serpent eels described, i. 219. 222. 

 Serpent, four-striped, ii. 143. 

 Serpent- lizard, described, ii. 122. 

 Serpent-lizards, ii. 156. 

 Serpents, general characters of, IL 

 100. 107. . 



Serpents, angular-headed, ii. 147. \ 

 Serpents, sea. ii. 140. 

 Serpents, true, general characters 



of, ii. 135. 

 Serpents, venomous, poison fangs of, 



described, ii. 144. 

 Serraninee, general characters of, 



ii. 19. 

 Serrasalmo, characters and habits, 



L 241. 254. 

 Shark, hammer-headed, figured, 



and described, i. 133. 

 Shark rays, i. 168. 

 Shark, fox-tailed, noticed, i. 140. 

 Shark, white, described, i. 139. 

 Shark, general characters of, i. 126. 

 Pectoral fins of, 18. Young, eaten 

 by the Sicilians, ii. 4. 

 Shark, spiracled, general charac- 

 ters of, i. 143. 

 Sicilians, young sharks eaten by, ii. 



4. ; and sandlances, 5. 

 Sicily, a rich field of ichthyology, i. 



63. 

 Siluridse, general characters of, i. 



230. 325. Divisions of, 330. 

 Silonia, characters of, i. 345. 

 Silonia lurida, figured, i. 345. 

 Silure, electric, i. 348. 

 Silure, horned or military, i. 339. 

 Silures, eel, i. 344. 

 Silures, spines of, i. 328. 

 Silurinse, general characters of, i. 



331. 344. 

 Silurus, characters of, i. .347. 

 Silurus Glanis, figured, i. 326. * 



Silurus laticeps, figured, i. 345. 

 Siren, Mexican, ii 95. 

 Sirens, North American, ii. 97. 

 Sirens, remarks on, ii. 99. 

 Sisor, characters of, i. 342. 

 Skate, immense, caught in the 



West Indian seas, i. 172. 

 Skates, i. 168. 172. 

 Skeleton of fishes, described,!. 12. 

 Skinks, described, ii. 156. 

 Slender tongued lizards, ii. 154. 

 Slow. worms, described, ii. 141. 

 Smell, sense of, in fishes, i. 47. 

 Smelt, i. 239. 



Snake-lizard, long-necked, ii. 123. 

 Snake, spectacle, ii. 145. 

 Snakes, double-headed, ii. 140. 

 Snakes, true, described, ii. 142. j. 



Snout rays, described, i. 185. 

 Soft-raved fishes, characters of, i. 

 100. ■ Described, 225. Their uti- 

 lity as food, 226. 

 Soft tortoises, ii. 115. 

 Sorubince, general characters of, i. 



332. Species figured, 357. 

 Sparinee, general characters of, ii. 



26. 

 Specimens, how to preserve, i. 68. 



Best mode of piocuring, 71- 

 Speckled cod, i. 317. 

 Spectacle snake, ii. 145. 

 SphyrseninEe, ii. 41. 

 Spine-backs, described, ii. 36. oS. 

 Spineheads, described, ii. 5S. 56. 59, 

 Spines, dorsal, used by fishes as in- 

 struments of defence, i. 27. 

 Spine-rayed fishes, characters of, i. 

 100. General description of, ii. 

 1. Natural history of, 5. 

 Spinola, ichthyological works of, 



characterised, i. 63. 

 Spiracled sharks, general characters 



of, i. 143. 

 Spirits of wine the best liquor for 



preserving fish, i. 70. 

 Spirobranchidffi, general characters 



of, ii. 14. 28. 

 Spotted Indian torpedo, figured, i. 



178. 

 Squalidffi, general characters of, i. 



126. Rafinesque's genera, 129. 

 Squalinas, general characters of, i. 



1S7. 

 Squalus, characters of, i. 139. 

 Squalus centrina described, i. 146. 

 Squalus Dumerilli figured, i. 184. 

 Squatina angelorum, figured and 



described, i. 184. 

 Stellio, characters of, ii. 153. 

 Sterlet, notion of the, i. 125. 

 SternarchidEe, general characters of, 



i.'222. 

 Sternoptyx, figured and described, 



i. 260. 

 Sting rays, huge, caught near Nice, 

 i. 170. Supposed to be destructive 

 to mankind, 170. Sting described, 

 171. 

 Stockfish, i. 315. 



Stomach and intestines of fishes de- 

 scribed, i. 14. 

 Stomias, characters of, i. 305. 

 Sturgeon, common, figured and de- 

 scribed, i. 123. 

 Sturgeons, characters of, i. 123. 

 Sturionidee, general characters of, 



i. 123. 

 Sturisoma, characters of, i. 337. 

 Stylephoridag, ii. 47. 

 Sub-operculum described, i. 41. 

 Sucking-fishes, singular form and 

 use of the ventrals in, i. 21. 

 , Sudis, characters of, i. 240. ' _^ 



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