INDEX 



A 



Adventures among Birds, 216 

 " Age of Fools," story of the, 8 

 Agriculture, decay of, in Gloucester- 

 shire, 174 

 Amazon, double-fronted, 256 

 Arnold, Matthew, on birds, 161 

 Arthur, King, legend of, 165 

 Asses, wild, their braying, 78 

 Axe, daws in the valley of Somerset, 

 59, 61, 187 



B 



Baring-Gould's Broom Sq^iire, 225 



Bath, 66 ; bird life in, 68 



Bee, stingless, in La Plata, its mode 

 of attack, 43 



Beech leaves, 84 



Birds, stutfed, effect of, 1-7 ; at their 

 best, 13-18 ; mental reproduction 

 of voices of, 18-26 ; durability of 

 images of, 28-32 ; their relations 

 with man, 37, 48-50 ; human sug- 

 gestions in voices of, 121-132 ; rare, 

 their gradual extirpation, 236-248 



Birds of Berkshire, 225 



Birds of Wiltshire, 1 69 



" Bishops Jacks," at Wells, 61 



Blackbird, 124 



Blackcap, its song, 112-114 



Blue, in flowers, 136, 154 



Booth collection, the, at Brighton, 3 



Brean Down, singular appearance of, 

 188 ; shildrakes binding at, 194 



Brissot and the Merrimac River, 35 



"British Bird of Paradise," 100 



British Ornithologists's Union, 24 



Broadway, raven superstitions at, 114 



Burns, "Address to a Woodlark," 

 127 



Burroughs, John, on the willow wren, 

 101 ; search for the nightingale, 

 222 



C 



Carew, Thomas, lines quoted, 144 



Cathedral Daws at Wells, 61 



Cattle, tended by birds, 39 



Chaffinch, song of, 114 



Children, imitative calls of, 177 



Chri/sotis guildingi, 250 



— lavalaniti, 256 



Collections of birds, small educational 

 value of, 6 



Collectors, destruction of Dartford 

 warblers by, 224-231 ; as law- 

 breakers, 234-237 



Cowper, the poet, on the daw's voice, 

 74 ; as naturalist, 76 



D 



Dartford warbler, 3 ; dead and alive, 

 4 ; search for the, 223 ; cause of 

 decrease of, 224 ; gradual extirpa- 

 tion by collectors, 229 ; at its best, 

 31, 231-234 



Daws, cows and, 39 ; at Savernake, 

 58, 90-93 ; choice of a breeding 

 site, 58 ; stick-carrying and drop- 

 ping by, 62-64; originally builders 

 in trees, 63; at Bath, 66, 71-78; 

 their voices, 72-75 ; alarm cry, 92 



Deer and jackdaw, 41 



Destruction of British birds and 

 pressing need for remedy, 224-248 



E 



"Ebor Jacks," 61 



Ebor rocks, former presence of ravens 



at the, 171 

 Exraoor, extirpation of birds by 



keepers in the Forest of, 170 

 Expression in natural objects due to 



human ascociations, 133 ; in flowers, 



135-137 



303 



