Part 33

— appears to be decreasing in numbers, 138.

Rose, the white moss, 238 (note), the wild, 263.

Royal forest, indications of one in Gloucestershire, 11.

Seasons, variableness of, 145

— effect of, 240.

Sex, increase of, in 1825, 102, note.

Shrew, the water, 102

— the common, 113

— new species of, 104.

Shrike. See Butcher-bird.

Sinking of the earth, 252.

Sky-lark, the, 184.

Smelling, question of the sense of, in birds, 132.

Smokewood, sticks of the wild clematis so called, 82.

Snail, the common, 228

— the banded, 231

— the halotideus, 238.

Snakes, eggs of, 208

— harmlessness of, 209

— general aversion to, 210.

Snapdragon, peculiarities of, 60

— an insect trap, ibid, 62.

Snipe, the jack, its habits, 176

— supposed the male of the larger snipe, 178.

Snowdrop, the, 69

— a melancholy flower, 70.

Soil, of the parish in which the author resides, 12

— various sorts of, 20