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INDEX 



Dartford Warbler. See Furze- 

 wren 

 Davies, Sir John, quoted, 208 

 Daw, a friendly, 72 ; at Salisbury 



Cathedral, 182 

 Dewpond, invention of the, 261 

 Dixon, on swallows forsaking 



their young, 292 

 Dogs, 69 

 Dotterel, ringed, playful spirit of, 



300 

 Downs, the, effect of pasturing 



sheep on, 260 

 Drayton, Michael, the Polyolbion 



of, 197-8 

 Duck, white, beauty of the, 106-9 



an English queen's sobriquet, 



116 

 Dutchman, love of birds of the, 



285 



Echo, a curious, 59 



England, beauty of spring in, 1 50 ; 



first sight of, 151 

 Evolution of Bird-Song, 187 



Fawley, New Forest, a black- 

 bird at, 189-90 

 Fieldfares, immigration of, 309 

 Forbes, Stanhope, on portraiture, 



5 

 Fowler, W. Warde, on warbling in 



birds, 13s ; Marsh warbler's 



song described by, 208 

 Fox, a pet, 69 

 Friendship in birds, 66 

 Furze- wren, 169 ; elusiveness of, 



170 ; girding note of, 172 ; 



a colony, 172 ; song of, 173-7 



Gamekeepers, destructiveness of, 

 87-91,274 



Garibaldi, death-bed incident, 10 



Geese, wild, at Wells in Norfolk, 

 27-32 ; intelUgent birds, 28 ; 

 great gatherings, 40 ; cries, 281 ; 

 arrival of, 295 ; starling's asso- 

 ciating with, 303 ; evening re- 

 turn of the, 307 ; tameness of, 

 at Holkham, 311 



Geikie, Dr. Cunninghame, 65 



Geochicla, 139 



Glastonbury, excavations and re- 

 storations, 185 



Goldcrest in a soldier's hospital, 8 



Golden oriole, a breeding haunt 

 of the, 155 



Golden plover, 1 30 



Goldfinches in Dorset and Somer- 

 set, 217 ; numbers of, seen by 

 Cobbett, 218 ; increase of, due 

 to protective laws, 247 



Goose, wild, a wounded, 305-6 



Goshawk, 269 



Gospel Oak at Avington, 257 



Grass, mental effect of, 104-6 



Green colour of England, 1 5 1 



Guanaco, a habit of the, 52 



Guarani legends, 109 



Gulls, blackheaded, breeding of 

 with terns, 33 ; lapwings 

 robbed by, 30 1 



Ham Hill stone, 180 



Hampshire village, 161 



Harrogate, 143 



Hawking, a fascinating sport, 268 



Hawks, pleasure of seeing, 267 



Heckfield, churchyard in, 253 



Helping instinct in a troupial, 77 ; 

 in a blackbird, 78 ; in a mag- 

 pie, 79 ; in a lark, 79 



Heron, playful spirit in, 299 



Heronry, 88 



Hill-top groves or " clumps," 

 260 ; aspect of on hot days, 

 263 ; wild life, 263 



Hobby-hawk, 95 



Holkham, 26 ; refuge of wild 

 geese at, 28, 30 



HoUywater clump, 263 



Horses, friendships of, 67-8 



Itchen Abbas, village of, 251 

 Ivy-tree, at Chepstow, 203 



Jackdaw. See Daw 

 James, Prof. William, on im- 

 pressions, 107 



Keats, ode to nightingale, 235 

 Ivestrel, appearance of, 268 ; 

 destroyed by gamekeepers, 

 274, 279 ; teased by starlings, 

 301-3 



Lake village at Glastonbury, 195 

 Lapwing, 30 ; robbed by gull, 



301 

 — spur- wing, singular action of, 



53-7 

 Leicester, Lord, birds protected 



by, 32 



