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Sharp-nosed Sturgeon, 251 

 Sheep, Large mountain, 70 

 Sheldrake, American, 190 

 Sheldrake Island, 51 

 Shell fish, 35 



,, Disappearance of, 35 

 Shiner, 214, 221 

 ,, Bay, 255 

 ,, New York, 255 

 Shrew, Richardson's, 98 



,, Cooper's, 98 

 Short-eared Hamster, 100 

 Sight, Relation of the other senses to, 



68, 83, 84 

 Silurian formations, 222, 231 (Note), 262 

 Silver frost, 129 

 Silvery Dace, 250, 255 



,, Salmon Trout, 195, 20 ) et sq., 



213 et sq., 226 



,, ,, Dimensions of, 



220 

 ,, ,, fishing, 211 et 



sq., 220 

 Siscowet, 234 et sq. , 236 

 Skating, 6 



Skeleton, Human, found in Prince Ed- 

 ward Island, 85 (Note) 

 Skew windows in churches, 52 

 Skink, Blue-tailed, 197 

 Skunk, 66, 95 



, , Hibernation of the, 66 

 Sleighing, 159 

 Smelt, 215, 243 et sq. 

 Smelt fishing, 244, 245 

 Snake, Black, ig6 

 Green, ig6 

 Little brown, 196 

 Ring-necked, 196 

 Striped, 196 

 Water, 196 

 Snapping Turtle, 196 

 Snipe, Wilson's, 187 

 Snow, Aspect of forest after a fall of, 78 

 , , Effects of, on the aspect of trees, 78 

 ,, Horse stuck in the, 163 

 ,, Power of progression of different 

 animals over, 74, 80 

 Snow-bird, 123, 172, 18 1 

 Snow Bunting, 172 

 Snowy Owl, 80, 121 

 Sol en, 35 

 Sparrow-hawk, 143 



,, attacked by swallows, 



I 5 I 



Sparrow of Hindostan, 193 



,, Italian, 182 



,, Pennsylvanian, 187 



,, Spanish, 181 



Spawning bed of the Silvery Salmon 

 Trout, 221 



Spear-head (stone), 28 



Spearing fish, 248, 252 



Species, Interchange of, between remote 



regions, 183 et sq., 192 

 Species, Return of, to forsaken haunts, 



69 

 Species, Tendency of Naturalists to 



multiply, 70, 119, 120, 225, 233 

 Sport on the lakes, 209, 223 (Note) 

 Spotted Burbot, 247 

 ,, Emys, 196 

 ,, Togue, Great, 195 

 Tringa, 195 

 Squirrel, Flying, 99 

 ,, Ground, 100 

 „ Common red, 57, 98 

 Stanley, 159 

 Steller's Jay, 181 

 Stickleback, Many-spined, 255 



,, Two-spined, 212, 250, 255 



Stone Age, 17, 27, 28 

 Stone Implements, 25 et sq., 85 (Note) 

 , , Absence of writing in, 22 



,, Formed in middens, 35, 36 



Stone pot, 31 



Storeria occipito-maculata, 196 

 Stoves, 41 



Stranded fish, 245, 264 et sq. 

 Strata, Divisions of, identified in New 



Brunswick, 262 

 Strata, Superposition of, 283 et sq. 

 Stream driving, 103 

 Stria, Glacial, 1 19, 272 

 Striped Bass, 247 et sq. 

 Striped Maple, 82 

 Sturgeon, Sharp-nosed, 251 

 Sturgeon, Spearing, 252 

 Sucker, Homed, 254 



,, Red-banded, 252 

 Sucking Carp, 254 



Summer migrants, Non-breeding, 192 

 Sun-fish, Sea, 231 

 Superstitions, Indian, 54 et sq. 

 Surface deposits, 272 

 Swallow, Egyptian, 181 



,, Migration of, 152 

 Sylvia ruficapilla,, 148 

 ,, protonotaria, 148 



T. 



Tabucintac River, 227, 228 



,, Sport on the, 228 



Tamarack, 109 



Tameness of birds and animals, 109, 170 

 Tanager, Scarlet, 192 

 Tapeworm in fish, 224 

 Tea-plant, Labrador, 92 

 Temiscouata Lake, 241 



