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BIRDS AND MAN 



F 



Faber, Father, lines on the yellow 

 hammer, 285 



Feathers, falling, birds' fear of, 252 



Feme, Sir John, on azure in blazon- 

 ing, 157 



Flowers, expression in, 133, 153 ; 

 human colours in, 135-137 ; ver- 

 nacular names of, 137-140, 145 ; 

 yellow and white, lack of human 

 associations in, 146-149 ; personal 

 preferences, 153 ; charm due to 

 human associations, 154 



Fowler, Mr Warde, on wagtails, 159 ; 

 on the willow wren's song, 121 



Frensham Pond, swallows and swifts 

 at, 51 ; gold-crests at, 53 



Furze wren, see Dartford Warbler 



G 



Gardens, 151 



Geese, on a common, 78 ; at Lynd- 

 hurst, 199 ; their lofty demeanour, 

 200, 206, 216-221 ; degraded by 

 culinary associations, 201 ; as 

 watch-dogs, 203 : Egyptian repre- 

 sentations of, 203 ; voice of, 210 ; 

 migratory instinct in domestic, 213 



Geese, Magellanic, 204 ; voices of, 

 205 ; courtly demeanour of, 206 ; 

 a migi-ating pair of, 214 



Gerarde, 150 



Gold-crests alarmed, 53, 57 



Gould, on abundance of the Dartford 

 warbler, 224 



Gray, Robert, on the gray-lag goose, 

 210 



Gresset, the story of Vert Vert by, 

 264 



Grey, Sir Edward, on the study of 

 birds, 33 



Grove, Sir George, blackbird's singing 

 described by, 124 



Guarani, legend of a parrot, 264 



Hastings, daws at, 62 

 Henley, W. E. on bird poems, 286 

 Herodotus, on flying feathers and 

 snow, 254 



Honey buzzard, destruction of the, 



228, 236 

 Humming-bird, defending its nest, 



42 



Impressions, emotion a condition of 

 their permanence, 6, 15 ; sound, 

 18 ; durability of, 26 



Jackdaws, sec Daws 



Jays, spring assemblies, 94-100 ; 

 mimicry, 95 ; variability of song, 

 97 ; their call, 99 ; mode of flight, 

 99 ; British bird of Paradise, 100 



Jefleries, Richard, on yellow flowers, 

 148 



K 



Kearton, Mr Richard, suggestion for 

 the protection of rare birds by, 240 



Kennedy, Clark, on the furze wren 

 in Berkshire, 225 



King Arthur, legend of, 165 



Kingfishers, alive and dead, 12 



Land's End, the, 155 



La Plata and Patagonia, images of 



birds of, 26 

 Lapwing, the spur-winged, and 



sheep, 44 

 Leslie's Riverside Letters, 1 24 

 Letters of Rusticus, 226 

 Linnets, a concert of, 188 

 Livett, Dr, a raven story told by, 



171 

 Long-tailed tit at its best, 16 

 Lynton, wood wren at, 97 



M 



Macgillivray, on the redbreast, 48 

 JIagellanic geese. See Geese 

 Magpie, manner of flight of, 284 

 Mammals, relations of birds with, 38 



