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INDEX 
Shrikes, 117, 127, 293, 324, 403 
Silver-bills, 227, 300, 302 
Singa, 335 
Sirdar, the, 306, 376 
Situtunga, 150, 152, 247, 262 
Smith, Mr Norman, 188, 419 
Snakes, 122, 201, 230, 249, 303, 382, 
. 397 
Snipes, 239 
Sobat-lark, 146 
Sobat River, 37, 86, 127 
Sodom-apple, 304 
“ Sont,” 135 ( Acacia) 
Sounds audible under water, 203 
Sparrow, 22 ; golden, 303 
hawk, little black-, 63 
red-eyed, 383 
Spears, 65, 70, 291 
Species, manufacture of new, 162 
“ sub-, 5 ’ 27, 69, 93, 188, 205, 343 
Spiloptila damans, 28 
Spiny-mice, 252, 323, 381 
Sponges, 393 
Spoonbills, 42, 61, 140, 392, 397 
Spreo pule her, 30 
Spur-wing plover, 43, 61, 114, 115, 
139, 293 
Squirrels, ground-, 253, 323 
Stack, General Sir Lee, 306 
Stalking, 8, 34, 85, 86, 98, 99, 105, 
35 h 369 
Starling, glossy, 30, 117, 124, 227, 320, 
328 
Steganura paradisea, 317 
Sterna ancestheta, 397, 399 
bergii, 389 
caspia, 389 
saundersi, 389 
Stigand, Major C. H., 280, 282, 295, 
415 
Stilt, 112, 235, 239, 262, 293 
Stints, little, 113, 293, 315 
Stomoxys, 78 
Stone-curlew, 70, 114, 293, 360 
Stork, Abdim’s, 267, 268, 296, 297 
bishop-, 115, 116 
saddle-billed, 139 
whale-headed, 268 ; white, 297 
Storks, 58, 61, 112, 269, 296, 315 
Storks, migration of, 296, 348 
Striped rat, 252, 322 
Struthio molybdophanes, 205 
“Sub-species,” making and naming 
of),27, 69, 93, 188, 205, 343 
Sudd, the, 38, 93, 203, 259, 263, 268, 
270 
growth of, 257 
Sula sula, 389 
Summer in Sudan, 19 
Sun-birds, 117, 227, 255, 285, 293, 300, 
304 , 3 o 5 5 3 24 , 348 , 384 
Sun-flowers, 300 
Sunrise, 4, 167 
Survival of the fittest, 138, 321 
Swallows, 254, 255, 285, 304 
Swayne’s hartebeest, 94 
Swift, a new, 324 
palm-, 109,- 254 
Sword-hunters, 14 
Sylvia mystacea, 391 
nana, 391 
Sylviella, 117, 255, 383 
Sympathy, animal-, 157, 184, 283, 371 
Tab anus, 55,77 
Tamarind-tree, 64 
Tamarisk, 314 
Taterillus gyas, 323 
Tchagra, 227, 229 
Teal, 40, 239, 315 
whistling, 59, 136, 137, 138, 143 
Telephonus remigialis , 229 
Telescope-sight, 156, 370 
falls into Nile, 195 
Temperatures, 15, 256, 318 
Tenacity of life (antelopes), 373 
Termite, the, 330 
Tern, black, 254 
Caspian, 43, 254, 389 
gull-billed, 43, 254, 389 
lesser sooty, 397, 399 
whiskered, 254 
white-winged, 254 
yellow-billed (S. bergii ), 389 
Thayer, Mr Gerald H., 436 
Thirstless beasts, 396, 405 
Thistle, blue-blossomed, 351 
Thomas, Mr Oldfield, 322 
