2i8 INDEX 



Colour in flights of birds, 162 

 Coot, 50 

 Corn-crake, 113 



its cry, 114, 117 

 Cuckoo, 99 



its foster-parents, 100 



food and song, loi 

 Curlew, folk-lore of, 49 

 Cushat {sec Wood-pigeon) 



Dabchicks, 205 



" Davy Jones's locker," 173, 174 

 Dotterel, 64 

 its note, 67 



Eagle, 71, 72 



in poetry, 153 



its flight, 154 



(sec Erne) 

 Egg-gathering at Flamborough, 167 

 Eider-duck, 182 

 Erne, 155 



its haunts, 156 



its young, 157, 158 



its raids on young birds, 165 



raids on puffins and rabbits, 170 



and black-backed gull, 183 



and skua, 184 

 Evening sounds, 67, 114, 117 



Falcon, 72, 75, 76 



a falconry, 75 



the Laggar-falcon, 71 

 Fern-owl, its song, 67 



its flight, 68, 69 

 Fieldfares, 54 

 Finches, 50 



the goldfinch a pest in New Zealand, 104 

 Flamingoes, 162 

 Flitter-mouse, 117 

 Flycatchers, igi 



