INDEX 219 



Gamekeepers, their stupidity, 144 

 Garden-warbler, loi, 103 

 Goatsucker {sec Fern-Owl) 

 Goldfinch a pest in New Zealand, 104 

 Grasshopper warbler, 1 1 9 

 Great Tit (sec Tit) 

 Grouse, 70 

 Guillemots, 161, 162 



their haunts and young, 163 



their eggs, 164 



the raids on their young, 165-167 

 Gull, the Black-backed, 178 



its habits and resorts, 181-183 

 Giinther, Dr., on the Great Tit of Rowfant, 128, 129 



Halcyon (see Kingfisher) 

 Hawks, chased by swallows, 40 



British, 75 

 Heron, 48, 143 



its persecution by gamekeepers, 144 



its effect in landscape, 147 



its post of observation, 148 



a heronry at breeding-time, 149 



in hawking days, 150 

 " Hewel," the (Woodpecker), 49 



Insects, destruction of, by swallow, 39 



Jay, 138 



Kestrel, 139 



its destruction of mice, 140-143 

 Kingfisher, its effect in the landscape, 147 



its haunts and habits, 189-192 



its colouring, nest and eggs, 193, 194 



the mystery of the halcyon, 195 



folk-beliefs, 196 



hardships in winter, 196 



its association with the picturesque, 199, 200 



the method of feeding its young, 200, 201 



;^ioo for its nest, 201, 202 



