440 



Birds— useful to farmers and gardeners, 



22, 46, 52, 54, ^79, 143, 



196, 200, 206, 211, 233, 



270, 272, 352, 422 



„ varieties of — see Varieties 



„ various notes of in each species, 



124, 126 

 „ various temperaments of, in 



confinement, 226 

 „ wholesale destruction of, depre- 

 cated, 143, 152, 196, 200, 

 210, 233 

 Blaelcbird, 83 

 Blackbird hawking 14 

 Blackcap, 125 

 Black-headed Bunting, 185 

 Black Grouse, 374 

 Black Redstart, 99 

 Black Woodpecker, great, 291 

 Blood Olf, 234 

 Blue-throated Warbler, 96 

 Blue Titmouse, 142 

 Bohemian Pheasant, var., 367 



„ Waxwing, 154 



Bomhycilla garrulus, 154 

 Brambling, 202 



„ nesting in confinement, 204 

 Broads the, a summer's night on, 120 



„ a summer's day on, 188 



Brown Linnet, 227 

 Bubo maximus, 47 

 BuDfinch, 233 



„ black variety of, in a wild 



state, 234 

 „ pine or grosbeak, 234 

 Bunting black-headed, 185 

 „ cirl, 198 

 „ common, 184 

 „ lapland, 181 



ortolan (not Norf.), 199 

 „ snow, 182 

 yellow, 196 

 Butcherbird or Shrike, 62 

 Buteo vulgaris, 27 

 Buzzard common, 27 

 „ rough-legged, 29 

 „ honV, 32 



Californian Quail, 437 

 Calamophilus biarmicus, 1 50 

 Capercally, re-introductiou of into 



Scotland, 375 

 Caprimulgus europeeus, 348 

 Carduelis elegans, 222 



Carrion Crow, 258 

 Cerihia familiaris, 295 

 Chaffinch, 199 

 Chiffchaff, 133 

 Cinclus aquaticus, 68 



„ melanogaster, 69 

 Circus eeruginosus, 35 

 „ eineraceus, 3-9 

 „ cyaneiis, 37 

 Cirl Bunting, 198 

 Coal Titmouse, 146 

 Coccothraustes chloris, 218 



„ vulgaris, 214 



Coffin bird, 300 

 Colin Virginian, 436 

 Columba cenas, 355 

 „ palumbus, 351 

 „ risoria, 360 

 „ turtur, 359 

 Common Buzzard, 27 

 Redstart, 98 

 Whitethroat, 128 

 Bunting, 184 

 „ Linnet, 227 

 Crossbill, 235 

 Starling, 247 

 Creeper, 295 

 Wren, 296 

 Swift, 343 

 Pheasant, 361 

 Partridge, 420 

 Coracias garrula, 310 

 Corvus comix, 260 

 „ corax, 256 

 „ corone, 258 

 ,. frugilegus, 264 

 . „ monedula, 277 

 Coturnix vulgaris, 429 

 Coucou roKx, 309 

 Creeper common or tree, 295 

 Crow carrion, 258 



„ method of breaking the shells of 



mussels, &c., 260 

 „ hooded, grey- backed, Danish, or 

 Royston, 260 

 Crossbill common, 235 



„ European white-winged, 242 

 parrot, 239 

 Cuckoo, 303 



„ laying in reed warbler's nests, 



117 

 „ singing by night, 121 

 „ titlarks and other small birds, 

 feeding young of, 167, 306 

 Cuculus canorus, 303 

 „ hepaticus, 309 



