3io ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS 



Colorin de Filis, El, 221; trans- 

 lation of, 224-227 



Cory, epitaph from Callimachus, 

 231 



Cotton-grass, 192 



Crested screamer, great gather- 

 ings of the, 34 



Crossbills, flock of, 197 



Crow, carrion, on hill-top grove 

 and in forest of a millionaire, 

 262 



hooded, 27, 29; as food, 57; 



scared by an owl, 60-61 ; a 

 killer of sick birds, 98; even- 

 ing pastimes of, 293-295 ; teas- 

 ing a wounded goose, 303; 

 immigration of, at Wells, 

 306 



Cuckoo, abundance and habits 

 of, in Peak district, 125 



Curlew, helping instinct in, 52; 

 love language and an aspect 

 of, 128 



Dartford warbler. See Furze- 

 wren 



Davies, Sir John, quoted, 205 



Daw, a friendly, 72 ; at Salis- 

 bury Cathedral, 180 



Dew-pond, invention of the, 258 



Dixon, on swallows forsaking 

 their young, 288 



Dogs, 69 



Dotterel, ringed, playful spirit 

 of, 297 



Downs, the, effect of pasturing 

 sheep on, 258 



Drayton, Michael, the Poly- 

 olbion of, 195 



Duck, white, beauty of the, 

 105-108; an English queen's 

 sobriquet, 115 



Dutchman, love of birds of the, 

 282 



Echo, a curious, 58 



England, beauty of spring in, 



148; first sight of, 149 

 Evolution of Bird-Song, 184 



Fawley, New Forest, a black- 

 bird at, 186-187 



Fieldfares, immigration of, 307 



Forbes, Stanhope, on portrait- 

 ure, 5 



Fowler, W. Warde, on warbling 

 in birds, 134; marsh warbler's 

 song described by, 205 



Fox, a pet, 69 



Friendship in birds, 70 



Furze-wren, 167; elusiveness of, 

 168; girding note of, 170; a 

 colony, 171; song of, 172-174 



Gamekeepers, destructivenessof, 

 86-90, 271 



Garibaldi, death-bed incident, 

 10 



Geese, wild, at Wells in Norfolk, 

 27-32; intelligent birds, 28; 

 great gatherings, 40; cries, 

 278; arrival of, 292; star- 

 lings associating with, 300; 

 evening return of the, 302; 

 tameness of, at Holkham, 308 



Geikie, Dr. Cunninghame, 64 



Geocichla, 138 



Glastonbury, excavations and 

 restorations, 182 



Goldcrest in a soldiers' hospital, 



7 



Golden oriole, a breeding haunt 

 of the, 153 



Golden plover, 129 



Goldfinches in Dorset and Som- 

 erset, 214; numbers of, seen 

 by Cobbett, 215; increase of, 

 due to protective laws, 244 



Goose, wild, a wounded, 302-304 



