NDEX 



Among the Osiers, boyish sport, 202-5 

 Artifices of birds, 63 



Birds : 



of the seasons. 13, 14 



calendar of, 47 



of the months, 54 



little noticed, loi 



of the sea, 158 



flight of coloured, 162 



in the poets (sec Poets) 

 Bird-pests, 104, 105 

 Bird-voices, expressiveness of, 113 



song of caged birds, ^;i, 34 

 Bittern, its folk-names, 48 

 Black-backed gull (see Gull) 

 Blackbird, 30 



curious folk-belief about, 31 



what becomes of its surplus numbers, 31 



its nest, 32 



its " piping," i^, 34-37 

 Blackcap, loi 



its song mistaken for the nightingale's, 102 



its eggs and nest, 117, 118 

 " Blasquet chickens," 177 

 Boyish sport among the osiers, 202-205 

 British Museum, curious notions as to what it wants, 201, 202 



Caged Birds Singing, 33, 34 

 Calendar of birds, 47 

 Cat concerts, 35 



