INDEX 



311 



Goshawk, 266 



Gospel Oak at Avington, 254 



Grass, mental effect of, 103-105 



Green colour of England, 148 



Guanaco, a habit of the, 52 



Guarani legends, 108 



Gulls, black - headed, breeding 



of, with terns, 33; lapwings 



robbed by, 298 



Ham Hill stone, 177 

 Hampshire village, 159 

 Harrogate, 141 

 Hawking, a fascinating sport, 



265 

 Hawks, pleasure of seeing, 265 

 Heckfield, epitaph at, 250 

 Helping instinct in a troupial, 



76; in a blackbird, 77; in a 



magpie, 78; in a lark, 78 

 Heron, playful spirit in, 297 

 Heronry, 87 

 Hill-top groves or "clumps," 



257; aspect of, on hot days, 



260; wild life, 261 

 Hobby-hawk, 89 

 Holkham, 26; refuge of wild 



geese at, 28, 32 

 Hollywater Clump, 260 

 Horses, friendships of, 67-68 



Itchen Abbas, village of, 248 

 Ivy tree at Chepstow, 200 



Jackdaw. See Daw 

 James, Prof. William, on im- 

 pressions, 106 



Keats, ode to nightingale, 232 



Kestrel, appearance of, 266; 



destroyed by gamekeepers, 



271, 276; teased by starlings, 



299-300 



Lake village at Glastonbury, 192 

 Lapwing, 30; robbed by gull, 

 298 



spur-wing, singular action 



of, 52-56 

 Leicester, Lord, birds protected 



by, 32 

 Lincolnshire, Drayton's account 



of fens of, 194 

 Lydekker, Mr. Richard, 34 



Martin, house, late breeding of 

 a pair, 285-288; ousted by 

 sparrows, 290 



sand, singular action of a, 



49-5o 



Maxwell, Sir Herbert, bird-pro- 

 tection Act of, 243 



Melendez, goldfinch poem by, 

 221 



Meredith, George, on the lark's 

 song, 173; nightingale's song 

 described by, 232 



Merula (blackbird), wide dis- 

 tribution of genus, 138 



Meyer, Prof. Kuno, translations 

 of ancient Irish poetry, 188 



Migration of Birds, Dixon's, 288 



Military starling, helping in- 

 stinct in, 76; chirping note, 



97 



Mirage in England, 260 



Mocking-bird, Southey's lines 

 on, 204 ; singing of the Pata- 

 gonian white-winged, 185, 205 



Montacute House, 177-178 



Montagu on the furze-wren, 172 



Montagu's harrier, 89 



Moorhen, 160 



Naturalist in La Plata, 34, 36, 

 40 



Newton, Sir Isaac, belief con- 

 cerning migration, 231 



