INDEX 221 



Parrots, 162 



Partridges, 76-79 



Peregrine {sec Falcon) 



Pests, birds which have become, 104, 105 



Petrel, 173 



in folklore, 174 



excellent eating, 177 



mystery of its nesting, 1 77 



its burrows, 178 

 Pheasant, 76-80 

 Poets, the, and the birds : 



Barry Cornwall, the Petrel, 173, 178 

 the Sparrow, 109 



Beattie, the Ringdove, 118 



Bloomfield, the Robin and Wren, 83 



Burns, the Mavis, 14 

 the Moorcock, 70 

 the Corn-crake, 113 



Byron, the Partridge and Pheasant, 76 



Clare, the Partridge, 47 



the Moorhen, 209 

 Cowper, the Sparron', 105 

 Cunningham, the Magpie, 136 



Drayton, the Blackbird (" woosell,") t,^^ 

 the Bittern, 48 

 the Dotterel, 64 

 the Kingfisher, 189 

 the Coot, 206 



Faber, the Sea-fond, 167 

 the Kingfisher, 192 

 the Coot, 2o5 



Grahame, the Merle, 30 

 the Eagle, 153 

 the Grouse, 70 



Hood, the Blackbird, 31 

 Hurdis, the Rook, 55 



Ingelow, Jean, the Finch, 70 



