312 ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS 



Nightingale, a Yeovil, i 78-181; 

 migration and distribution, 

 230-236, 240; myths and 

 poetry, 231-233; song, 232; 

 anecdote, 236-239; extermi- 

 nation in Germany, 242 



Oldys, Mr. Henry, studies of 



bird music by, 184 

 Owl, long-eared, in hill-top 



grove, 268-270; habit of the, 



270 



Paget, Miss Rosalind, 7, 8 



Parish clerk, 248 



Partridge, friendship with horse 



of, 79 

 Passenger pigeon, extirpation of 



the, 39 

 Patagonian mocking-bird, song 



of, 185, 205 

 Peak of Derbyshire, 118 

 Peregrine falcon, 265 

 Pewit. See Lapwing 

 Pheasant, and blackbird, 61 ; 



a tame, 63-64; a sacred bird, 



84-93 

 Phyllis and her goldfinch, prose 



translation of Spanish poem 



of, 224-227 

 Pipit, meadow, and cuckoo, 125 

 Pleydell-Bouverie, Mansel, 214 

 Plover, golden, 129 

 Poetic feeling in north and south 



Britain, 180 

 Poetry, Spanish, freedom of, 222 

 Pollock, W. H., sensations in a 



belfry described by, 199 

 Polyolbion, Drayton's, 195 

 Poole, recreations of the people 



at > I55-I5 6 

 Procter, A. A., Child and the 

 Bird, 222-223 



Protection of Birds, Royal 

 Society for the, 246 



Psophia leucoptera. See Trum- 

 peter 



Querquedula flavirostris, 73 



Rail, water-, 193 



Ravens, last of the Hampshire, 

 252 



Redbreast, injured, fed by mag- 

 pie, 78; wailing note of, 137; 

 favoured by sentiment, 242; 

 young persecuted by, 256 



Redshanks and wounded goose, 



303 



Redstart, a black, 282 

 Redwing, 95; song of the, 96; 



not a cage bird, 97 ; beauty of, 



101 

 Ring-ouzel, 130, 132-7 

 Robin. See Redbreast 

 Roman pavement at Itchen 



Abbas, 251 

 Rural Rides, 215 

 Rusby, Dr., on the trumpeter, 



47 

 Ruskin on the colouring of 



pheasants, 92 

 Ryme Intrinseca, village of, 212, 



216 



Salisbury Cathedral, birds on, 

 179 



Salt, Mr. Micah, a Buxton 

 naturalist, 125, 126 



Sandpiper, 129 



Saunders, Howard, on the furze- 

 wren, 174 



Sea birds, destruction of, 37-38 



Sheep, in the Peak district, 120; 

 on the downs, 257, 258 



Sherborne Abbey, the colour of, 

 177 



