INDEX 



317 



Ham Hii.i. stone, 179 

 Hampshire village, 160 

 Harrogate, 14-' 

 Hawking, a fascinating sport, 



271 

 Hawks, pleasure of seeing, 271 

 Hcckficld, churchyard in, 255 

 Helping instinct in a troupial, 



77; in a blackbird, 77; in a 



magpie, 78; in a lark, jS-fj 

 Heron, playful spirit in, 303 

 Heronry, 87 

 Hill-top groves or "clumps," 



263 ; aspect of on hot days, 



266; wild life, 263 

 Holkham, 26; refuge of wild 



geese at, 28, 30 

 Hollywater clump, 266 

 Horses, friendships of 66-8 



Itchen Abbas, village of, 253 

 Ivy-tree, at Chepstow, 204-5 



Jackdaw. See Daw 

 James, Prof. William, on im- 

 pressions, 107 



Keats, ode to nightingale, 237 

 Kestrel, appearance of, 272, de- 

 stroyed by gamekeepers, 277-8, 

 282; teased by starlings, 305-7 



Lake village at Glastonbury, 195 

 Lapwing, 30; robbed by gull, 304 

 — spur-wing, singular action of, 



52-6 

 Leicester, Lord, birds protected 



by, 32 

 Lincolnshire, Drayton's account 



of fens of, 108 

 Lydekkcr, Mr. Richard, 34 



Martin, house, late breeding of 

 a pair, 291-5 ; ousted by spar- 

 rows, 296-7 



— sand, singular action of a, 49- 



51 

 Maxwell, Sir Herbert, bird pro- 

 tection Act of, 248 

 Melendez, goldfinch poem by, 226 

 Meredith, George, on the lark's 

 song, 174; nightingale's song 

 described by. 237 



Mcrula (blackbird), wide dis- 

 tribution of genus, 138 



Meyer, I'rof. Kuno, translations 

 of ancient Irish poetry, 192 



Migration uf lUrds, Dixon's, 295 



Military starling, helping in- 

 stinct in, 76; chirping note, 97 



Mirage in England, 2(ib 



Mocking bird, Southey's lines on, 

 208; singing of the Patagonian 

 white-winged, 209 



Montacute house, 179-80 



Montagu on the furze-wren, 173 



Montagu's harrier, 89 



Moor hen, 161-2 



Naturalist in La Plata, 34, 

 36, 40 



Newton, Sir Isaac, belief con- 

 cerning migration, 236 



Nightingale, a Yeovil, 181-4; mi- 

 gration and distribution, 234- 

 40, 245 ; myths and poetry, 

 236-8; song, 237; anecdote, 

 242-4; extermination in Ger- 

 many, 247 



Oldvs, Henry, Mr., studies of 



bird music by, 187 

 Owl, long-eared, in hill-top 



grove, 274-6; habit of the, 275 



Paget, Miss Rosalind, 8 

 Partridge, friendship with horse 



of, 79-80 

 Passenger pigeon, extirpation of 



the, 39 

 Patagonian mocking-bird, song 



of, 189 

 Peak of Derbyshire, 119 

 Peewit Sec Lapwing 

 Peregrine falcon, 271-2 

 Pheasant, and blackbird, 61-2; 



a tame, 64; a sacred bird, 84 

 Phyllis and her goldfinch, prose 



translation of Spanish poem 



of 229-32 

 Pipit, meadow, and cuckoo, 125- 



6 

 Pleydell-Bouverie, Mansel, 219 

 Plover, golden, 129 



