Scoters in summer, 414; in Hants and Isle of Wight, 505
Scotland—Corncrake, 25; Wagtails eating Trout, 82; Cuckoo, 270 Migrants in Aberdeenshire, 275 Cuckoos in Aberdeen, 359, 431 Scaup-Duck, 361; Bird-notes from Northern Cairngorms, 362; Scoters, 414; Ivorv Gull on Solway, 414; Birds of Moffat. 507
Scutigera coleoptrata, 489
Scylla serrata, 204
Seal and Whale Fishery (1897), 69
Seleucides nigricans, 379
Sesamopteris pentaphylla, 256
Sesarma erythrodactyla, 206
Shark, remarkable, 41
Sharks on the Cornish coast, 451
Shells, abnormal scalariformity in, 191
Shrike, Red-backed, "Horse-match" a name for, 188, 266; Woodchat, in Sussex, 267
Singing of birds during thunderstorm, 322
Sitta caesia, 480
Skua, Great, in Notts, 485
Smelts in the Upper Thames, 449
Societies, Natural History—Scarborough Field Naturalists' Society, 140; Marlborough College Natural History Society, 375
Socotra, scientific expedition to, 491
Solea vulgaris, 219
Song of Chaffinch, 195, 269, 270 autumn, of birds, 410
Sorex araneus, 100; minutus, 100 pyginaeus, 264; vulgaris, 264, 303 Sparrow, House, early nesting, 123 wing, figured, 243; variety, 482
Spatula clypeata, 219
Spharageomon, 457
Sphenodon punctatus, 488
Spider versus Wasp, 29, 44
Spiders. African, stridulation in some, 14; South African Social, notes on, 417; Social, nest figured, 253
Spiders' webs manufactured into balloon net, 45
Sprats, extraordinary catch at Shoreham, 517
Spurn lighthouse, migration at (189798), 345
Squilla lævis, 211
Starling, variety, 482
Starlings, brood of young, in midNovember, 24; breeding in Buckingham Palace, 287
Stegodyphus, 417; gregarius, 251, 252, 253, 417
Stegostoma tigrinum, 467
Stenorhynchus rostratus, 181; tenuirostris, 181
Sterna dougalli, 83
Stoats turning white in winter, 122, 187, 193, 213, 261
Strepsilas interpres, 321, 435
Stridulation in some African Spiders, 14
Strix flammea, 215
Sturgeon, Royal, in Ireland, 144
Sturnus vulgaris, 24, 190, 508
Sula bassana, 319
Sunfish, Short, near Scarborough. 439
Sus africanus, 250; salvanius, 176
Swallow versus Flycatcher's peculiar nesting site, 429
Swift, late stay, 436, 485
Swordfish, monster, 45
Sylvia cinerea, 190; nisoria, 504
Syrnium aluco, 508
Tadorna cornuta, 321
Talorchestia quadrimana, 212
Talpa europæa, 100, 264, 303
Tapirus bairdi, 463; indicus, 176
Taraxacum dens leonis, 406; palustre, 407
Taxidermy for museums, 330; correct attitudes for birds, 331
Technical names of British mammals, 97
Teracolus, 259; achine, 259; agoye, 259; auxo, 259; celimene, 255; eris, 259; evenina, 259; phlegetonia, 259; subfasciatus, 259
Tern, Roseate, eggs of, 83
Tetrao tetrix, 508
Thalamita admete, 204; sima, 204
Theraphosidæ, 14
Thrush, Song, immigration of, 264
Thymallus, 463
Tibicen carinatus, 275
Tineidæ, 292
Toad attacked by Frog, 323, 365
Tortoise, giant, 44
Tortricina, 292
Totanus calidris, 321; canescens, 363; hypoleucus, 321, 363
Trachyphonus caffer, 256
Transvaal, zoological rambles in, 249
Trichechus rosmarus, 308
Trigla lineata, 219
Trimerorhinus tritæniatus, 259
Tringa alpina, 321; maculata, 25, 480
