Salmo fario, 558; salar, 557; trutta, 558
Sandpiper, Green, in Co. Waterford, 143; flight, 573
Saunders' 'Manual of British Birds,' 532
Scarborough, notes from, 578
Sciæna aquila, 547
Sciurus æstuans, 343
Sclater, Dr. P.L., bibliography, 188
Scomber scomber, 547; scriptus, 547; thynnus, 547
Scomberesox saurus, 559
Scopus umbretta, 158
Scorpæna dactyloptera, 544
Scoter, Surf, in Co. Sligo and Mayo, 84
Scotland.—Yellow Wagtail in Argyllshire, 167; Cuckoo, 272, 365; Toad attacked by Weasel, 339; Wild Geese in Fifeshire, 363; migrants in Aberdeenshire, 366; Golden Eagle in Ross-shire, 425
Scotophilus greyii, 193
Scyllum canicula, 565; stellaris, 565
Sea-regions of the globe, 221
Seal, Behring Sea fisheries, 96; Common, in River Arun, Sussex, 571; Grey, in Carnarvonshire, 141; and Whale fishery, 1896, 56, 142
Selache maxima, 565
Serpentarius secretarius, 157
Shagreen made from skins of Rays and Dog-fish, 292
Shark, Porbeagle, in Manx waters, 579; Thresher, at Lowestoft, 475
Sharks, abundance in tropical seas, 36; combat at Cocos Islands, 387
Sheep, Wild, bred in captivity, 291
Sheldrake, local name, 508, 571
Shetland, list of birds observed, 360; Black-throated and Great Northern Divers breeding in, 364, 425, 509
Shrew, Lesser, in Cheshire, 231,—in Anglesea, 326,—in Devon, 467
Shrews and Voles, trapping, 507, 571
Shrike, Lesser Grey, in Kent, 427; Red-backed, near Rainworth, 334
Singing of birds, hours, 472, 576
Siphonostoma typhle, 563
Sirenians, distribution, 219
Slugs, distribution of worm-eating, 89
Sminthopsis nitela, 208
Snails, early, 236
Snake, Smooth, in New Forest, 431, 475
Snakes found within fifty miles of New York City, 44
Snipe, Common, breeding in Romney Marsh, 271
Solea lascaris, 557; vulgaris, 557
Solway Firth, Germon, or Long-finned Tunny, in, 580
Somali-land, mammals from, 434
Song of Greenfinch, 335; autumn, of birds, 358, 410, 471
Sparrow, unusual position for eggs of, 334; House, peculiar nesting habit, 273,—depredations of, 383; albino, 578
Sparrowhawk nesting in thorn-tree, 508
Sparrows nesting on band-stand, 287
Sparus niger, 548
Spider, Tipula, and Wasp, 475
Spurn lighthouse, migration at, in 1896, 245
Squatina vulgaris, 565
Squirrel, Common, seasonal changes in, 424
Star-fish, Scutellated, alleged occurrence in Durham, 170, 340
Starling, unusual position for eggs of, 334; strange nesting habits, 514
Starlings, second brood, 334
Stilt, Black-winged, in Somerset, 511
Stridulation of Cicadidæ and Orthoptera, 432, 516, 517, 519, 520
Struthio camelus, 97
Swift, flight of, 36; night flight, 290; roosting, 468, 511
Syngnathus acus, 563; hippocampus, 563; lumbriciformis, 563
Tanagra sclateri, 447
Taphozous australis, 192
Tatusia novemcincta, 343
Taxidermy, 412
Tern, Black, in Anglesea, 329,—in Warwickshire, 330; Noddy, in Cheshire, 510; Roseate, breeding in Britain, 165, 467,—eggs of, 467, 510
Terpsiphone cristata, 161
Thetford, Stone Curlews as observed around, 248
Thrush, Song, unusual position for eggs of, 334
Tinea vulgaris, 560
Tipula, Spider, and Wasp, 475
Tithoes confinis, 161
Titmouse, Blue, habit variations, 333
Tit's nest, strange discovery of, 167
Toad attacked by Weasel, 339; by Hedgehog, 369; enemies of, 432
Torpedo vulgaris, 566
Tortoise, gigantic, from Aldabra Islands, 382
