622 



REPTILES AND BIRDS. 



Sandpipers, Common, 307. 

 ,, Green, 307. 



,, Greenshank, 306. 



,, Redshank, 306. 



,, Wood, 307. 



Sapho Comet, 467. 

 Sarcoramphi, 600. 

 Scansores, or Climbers, 191, 431. 

 Scissors-bill, 281. 

 Scissors-bills, 281. 



,, Black, The, or Cutwater, 



282. 

 Scoter, 236. 



,, Black, 236. 



,, Great-billed, or Surf Duck, 239. 

 Screamer, Crested, 304. 



,, Homed, 303. ■ 



Secretary Bird, 6 1 1 . 

 Seps tridactylus, 95. 

 Serpent-Eaters, 611. 

 Shaft, 171. 



Shag, The, or Green Cormorant, 269. 

 Shear- Waters, 288. 

 Shieldrake, The, 229. 

 The, 230. 

 Shoveller, The, 228. 

 The, 228. 

 Shrike, Great Grey, 541. 

 ,, Piping Crow, 542. 

 ,, Red-backed, 542. 

 Shrikes, 539. 



,, Pied Crow, 543. 

 Piping Crow, 543. 

 Si flits, 474. 

 Siskin, 490. 



„ The, 489. 

 Skua, The, 285. 

 ,, Buffon's, 287. 

 ,, Common, 287. 

 ,, Parasite, 287. 

 ,, Pomerine, 287. 

 Skylark, 503. 

 Smew, The, 241. 

 Smew, 242. 

 Snakes, 38. 



Black, 4c. 

 Blind, 42. 

 ,, Burrowing, 39. 

 ,, Carpet, 54, 64.. 

 ,, Copperhead, 76. 

 ,, Coral, 42. 

 ,, Desert, 47. 



Snakes, Diamond, 54. 

 ,, Fresh- water, 39. 

 ,, Guinea Rock, 57. 

 ,, Green and Yellow, 47. 

 ,, Ground, 39. 

 ,, Innocuous, 41. 

 ,, Natal Rock, 55. 

 ,, Rat, 45. 

 ,, Rattle, 76, 77. 

 ,, Ringed, 45. 

 ,, Ringed, 46. 

 „ Rock, 55. 

 ,, ,, Guinea, 56. 



„ Natal, 55, 56. 

 ,, ,, Royal, 55. 



Sea, 37, 40, 63. 

 ,, Shield-tail, 43. 

 „ Tree, 39. 

 ,, Viperine, 48. 



47, 73-. 

 ,, Whip, 49. 



Snipe, 305, 318. 

 ,, Conimon, 319. 

 „ 3i8. 

 ,, Great, 318, 319. 

 „ Jack, 319. 

 „ Jack, 318, 319. 

 ,, Wilson's, 320. 

 Sociable or Republican Birds, Nests of, 



184. 

 Solan Goose, 265. 



Soui-Mangas, The, or Sun Birds, 471. 

 Sparrow, Hedge, Nest of , 182. 

 ,, House, 491. 

 ,, Java, 496. 



Sparrow, Owl, 553. 



„ Pampas, 555. 

 ,, Small, 554. 

 Sparrow Hawk, Common, 589. 

 ,, Hawks, 589. 

 ' ,, ,, Common, 590. 



,, ,, Dwarf, 591. 



Spoonbills, 325. 



,, Common White, 326. 



,, Eose-Coloured, 325. 



,, White, 325. 



Starling, 485. 

 Starlings, 484. 



,, Common, 485. 



,, Sardinian, 485. 



Stilt Bird, 295. 

 Stint, The, 313. 



