INDEX 



313 



Silchester, birds' bones in ash 

 pits at, 85 



Sinclair, Sir John, nightingales 

 bred by, 241 



Siskin, black-headed, a memory 

 of, 217-220 



Southey, mocking - bird des- 

 cribed by, 204 



Sparrow-hawk, small bird killed 

 by, 169; nesting in hill-top 

 grove, 263-264; hunting me- 

 thod of, 266-268 



Sparrows driving out martins, 

 290 



Spencer, Herbert, on love of 

 wildness in man, 273 



Squirrel, hunting a, 254; eccen- 

 tric behaviour of a, 283 



Starling mimicry, 207 



Starlings teasing a kestrel, 299; 

 accompanying wild geese, 300 ; 

 unity in flock of, 301 



Stuart- Wortley, A., on pheasant 

 shooting, 90 



Swallow, habits of, 50; for- 

 saking their young, 285; 

 wintering in England, 289 



Swan, friendship of, with a 

 trout, 80-81 



Swift, a habit of the, 49 



Swinburne, poetry of, 222 



Teal anecdotes, 73-76 

 Terns, breeding-place, 33 

 Tilshead, village of, 71 

 Tinamou, spotted, love call of, 



128 

 Tintern Abbey, birds breeding 



on, 201 

 Tree-climbing contests, 254 

 Troupials (Icteridse), 9, 16, 76 



Trumpeter, friendly disposition 

 of, 47 



Vizcacha, a South American 

 rodent, 20 



Wallace, Dr. A. R., 146 



Walnut tree, a noble, 200 



Walton, Izaak, on nightingale's 

 song, 232 



Warbler, marsh, colony, 201-203 ; 

 song and imitations, 204-208; 

 listening to the, 210-21 1 



Wareham, St. Mary's, 154 



Water-squealer, 129 



Wells-next-the-Sea, character 

 of, 25; a wood at, 57; on 

 the saltings at, 94; return 

 to, 277 



Whinchat, song of, 127; night- 

 singing, 146; marsh warbler's 

 imitation of song of, 206 



White, Gilbert, on the music of 

 field crickets, 140; on last 

 ravens, 253 



Wild bird protection legislation, 



37 

 Willow-wren, at Harrogate, 142; 



song of, mimicked by marsh 



warbler, 205, 206 

 Willughby on the nightingale, 



243 

 Wimborne, church at, 154 

 Winscombe, village of, 197 

 Witchell, C. A., on bird music, 



184 

 Wolf, a pet, 68 



Yeovil, sand-martins at, 49; 



nightingale at, 178 

 Yetminster, village of, 212 



