INDEX 



A 



Abuse of the stanchion-gun, 439 

 (note) 



Adder, 34, 72, 121 



Alpine swift, 99 



Altitude and latitude equivalents, 



189 

 Arctic regions, 7, 79, 187, 264, 326, 



337, 35o, 389 

 Attitudes, sitting, of wildfowl, 



365-66 

 Auk, little, 238, 379, 409 

 Aurora-borealis, 445 

 Autumn, first signs of, 87, 102, 103, 



109-10 

 on the coast, 386 



B 



" Baby Migrants," 127, 392 



Badger, 120 



Baltic navigation, 328, 336, 420-1, 



426 

 Bat, 106 



Bean goose, 216, 217, 350 

 Bernicle goose, 337 (note) 

 Bezzil crag, Cheviot, 118 

 Bird-instinct, mistakes of, 109, 245, 



245-6, 248, 376, 428 

 Bird-problems, 388 



451 



Bird-song, July, 103 



resumption of, 30, 180, 198 

 Blackbird, 150, 192, 235, 259 

 Blackcap, 84 

 Black-backed Gull, Great, 74 



Lesser, 34, 50, 71 

 Black-faced Sheep, 166 

 Blackgame, 38, 50, 74, 104, 195, 



Chap, xvii., 201, 247 

 Black-headed Gull, 32, 50, 66, 69, 



95, 102, 104 

 Blaeberry, 104, 115 

 Blindworm, 35 



Brambling, 26, 227, 253, 259 

 Brent geese, 284, 294, Chap, 

 xxvii., 326, Chap. XXXVI., 337 

 (note), 419 



immature, 335, 430 



dimorphic race, 337 

 Bullfinch, 198, 259 

 Bull-trout, 64, 104-6, 255 

 Burdocks, 50 



Butchery of young " Grey," 203-4 

 Buzzard, 41, 231, 435-6 



honey, 231 



rough-legged, 231 



Cairnglassenhope, 72 



Canvas, wildfowhng under, 313, 375 



