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INDEX 



Poetic feeling in north and south 

 Britain, 182 



Poetry, Spanish, freedom of, 227 



Pollock, W. H., sensations in a 

 belfry described by, 201 



Polyolbion, Drayton's, 198 



Poole, recreations of the people 

 at 156-8 



Proctor, A. A., "Child and the 

 Bird," 227-8 



Protection of birds, Royal So- 

 ciety for the, 251 



Psophia leucoptera. See Trum- 

 peter. 



QuERQUEDULA flavirostra, 7^ 



Rail, water, 196 



Ravens, last of the Hampshire, 

 258 



Redbreast, injured, fed by mag- 

 pie, 78; wailing note of, 138; 

 favoured by sentiment, 247; 

 young persecuted by, 261 



Redshanks, and wounded goose, 



309 

 Redstart, a black, 288 

 Redwing, 95; song of the, 96-7; 



not a cage bird, 97 ; beauty of, 



lOI 



Ring-ouzel, 131, 132-8 



Robin. See Redbreast 



Roman pavement at Itchen 



Abbas, 256 

 Rural Rides, 220 

 Rusby, Dr., on the trumpeter, 47 

 Ruskin on the colouring of 



pheasants, 92 

 Ryme Intrinsica, village of, 217- 



8,221 



Salisbury Cathedral, birds on, 

 181 



Salt, Mr. Micah, a Buxton 

 naturalist, 125, 127 



Sandpiper, 129 



Saunders, Howard, on the furze- 

 wren, 175 



Seabirds, destruction of, 37-8 



Sheep, in the Peak district, 120; 

 on the downs, 264 



Sherborne Abbey, the colour of, 



180 

 Silchester, birds' bones in ash 



pits at, 85 

 Sinclair, Sir John, nightingales 



bred by, 246 

 Siskin, black-headed, a memory 



of, 222-5 

 Southey, mocking-bird described 



by, 208 

 Sparrow-hawk, small bird killed 



by, 170; nesting in hill-top 



grove, 269-71 ; hunting method 



of, 272-4 

 Sparrows driving out martins, 



296 

 Spencer, Herbert, on love of 



wildness in man, 279 

 Squirrel, eccentric behaviour of 



a, 289-90 

 Starling mimicry, 211 

 Starhngs teasing a kestrel, 304; 



accompanying wild geese, 306; 



unity in flock, of, 307 

 Stuart-Wortley, A., on pheasant 



shooting, 90 

 Swallow, habits of, 50; forsak- 

 ing their young, 291 ; winter- 

 ing in England, 295 

 Swan, friendship of with a trout, 



8a-i 

 Swift, a habit of the, 49 

 Swinburne, poetry of, 227 



Teal, anecdotes, 73-6 

 Terns, breeding-place, 33 

 Tilshead, village of, 72 

 Tinamou, spotted, love call of, 



128 

 Tintern Abbey, birds breeding 



on, 205 

 Tree-climbing contests, 259-60 

 Troupials {Icteridce) 9, 16, 76 

 Trumpeter, friendly disposition 



of, 47 



VizcACHA, a S. American rodent, 

 20 



Wallace, Dr. A. R. 148 

 Walnut-tree, a noble, 204-5 



